Tel Aviv – The head of the United Nations agency, which supports Palestinian refugees, condemned An American humanitarian organization supported by Israelis It works in Gaza, describing it as “abomination” and “a trap for death that costs more life than it saves.”
The statement issued by Philip Lazarini, UNRWA Commissioner -General, who criticized the Gaza Humanitarian Corporation (GHF) at a time when the Gaza Ministry of Health in Hamas said 79 people were killed in the previous 24 hours of the 24 hours, and 51 of them said near GHF sites.
“There is no food. People have starved to death, and no one gives a curse on Gaza. No one talks about what is happening in Gaza,” said a man from Nasser Hospital in Gaza, where he was brought to CBS News. “Young people die in their pride. What brings these young people to go to relief sites? It is hunger. The fire of hunger has destroyed people.”
Another man at Nasser Hospital said: “I send this message to mothers and fathers, not sending their children. Young people who are 17 years old die without success, just to get some chickpeas or a bag of flour to feed their families. The Israeli army lies in waiting to kill them as you can see here. Look at the victims. Death.
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“Humanitarian principles must be returned,” Lazarini said in his statement. “The human society, including UNRWA, has experience and must be allowed to take their jobs and provide assistance with respect and dignity.”
“In Gaza, atrocities continue while global attention turns to another place,” Lazarini said after 12 days. Air strikes and missile between Israel and Iran. “The confined and the families, trapped and candidates are constantly. More than 55,000 people have been killed, most of them women and children. Two million people are starving, including one million children. We have said that several times and say that again: There is no safe place in Gaza, and there is no one.”
The CBS News team in Gaza has reported a decrease in the intensity of the Israeli bombing on Monday, as drones and combat aircraft were seen in the sky, but most of the violence that affects people approaching the GHF aid distribution points.
GHF said in a statement on Tuesday that the distribution “in all locations continued without an accident. However, GHF officially filed complaints with the Israeli Defense Army regarding cases of possible harassment by Israeli soldiers directed to our convoys” went to one of the aid centers.
The group also retreated, as it does in all its daily statements, against what it called “false allegations of attacks near the aid distribution sites,” adding that “the Ministry of Health in Gaza in Hamas is not a reliable source of information, because it fails to report any convoys or distribution sites in Hamas violently.”
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Israel and the United States said that the new organized system of GHF is the need to prevent Hamas from getting rid of aid, which is denied by the terrorist organization that was designed in the United States. GHF financing and its administration remained unclear since the operations began in mid -May, but it was working by well -armed American security contractors.
Meanwhile, a limited number of trucks bearing the humanitarian aid of the World Central Kitchen Group, which has entered the Gaza Strip, has been reported.
Kogat, the agency that coordinates Israel’s operations in the Palestinian territories under the authority of the country’s Ministry of Defense, said that more than half a million pounds of children’s food entered Gaza on Monday. The Israeli Defense Forces said that 79 trucks from various relief organizations and medical supplies entered Gaza on Monday.
Before during a lot of the ongoing war in Gaza, UNRWA has provided education, health care, humanitarian relief and social services to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees in multiple countries throughout the Middle East, but the group has long accused the Israeli authorities of terrorist ties.
In January, Israelis laws entered into force to ban UNRWA operations in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israeli officials accused dozens of UNRWA Gaza employees that they are complicit in a terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, which sparked the war. Lazzzarini from UNRWA, after an internal investigation of the United Nations, Nine employeesBut he said that the agency’s priority has been “continuing to save life and critical services for Palestinian refugees in Gaza and across the region.”
UNRWA later said that the Israeli government had not provided any evidence of its charges, which is supported by a subsequent independent review. However, the allegations against UNRWA prompted the US government to temporarily stop its financing to the agency, and President Trump, earlier this year, Make the end of American support For the agency indefinitely.
In March, UNRWA issued a general appeal To resume American financing.
Lazarini said on Tuesday: “UNRWA’s financial situation is harsh,” Lazarini said on Tuesday. “The cash flow is now managed on a weekly basis instead of monthly, not to mention annually. Without additional financing, I will soon have to make unprecedented decisions that affect our services for Palestinian refugees throughout the region. UNRWA’s loss of the region will be increasing in the turmoil.”
Lazzzarini stressed that UNRWA provides a set of services for Palestinian refugees for performance Palestinian stateIf one is created, he can take over, including education and medical care.
He said, “A real political process related to time will allow the agency to finally transfer its services similar to the government to enable public institutions that serve the Palestinians and prepare them.” “In the absence of an organized transition, the sudden loss or the reduction of UNRWA services will deepen only suffering and despair across the occupied Palestinian territories. It may raise the turmoil in neighboring countries. This is something that the region cannot bear, especially now.”
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