Gaza: UN agencies reject Israeli plan to use help as “bait”

UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) James Elder spokeswoman insisted that the Israeli proposal creates a handful hub to help exclusively in the south of the strip would create “impossible choice between displacement and death“.

The plan “opposes the basic humanitarian principles” and appears designed to “strengthen control over life cases as pressure tactics,” said reporters in Geneva. “It is dangerous to seek to cross civilians to militarized meals to collect meals … Humanitarian aid should never be used as a negotiating chip“.

Gaza Strip is under a complete blockade more than two months, and the humanistrations have warned several times that food, water, medications and fuel runs out.

Children and older people at risk

If the Israeli plan should happen, the most endangered individuals of Gaza – the elderly, children with disabilities, sick and wounded which cannot travel to certain distribution zones – would face “UNICEF spokesman.

The draft for the distribution of Israeli aid was introduced to the UN humanitarian imaginations Only 60 trucks for assistance in daily entrances in gauze – “One-tenth of what was delivered during the switch” between Israel and Hamas held from 19. January to 18. March.

“It is not almost enough to satisfy the needs of 1.1 million children, 2.1 million people,” Mr. Elder insisted. “There is a simple alternative: Raise the blockade, let the humanitarian aid in, save your lives.”

Thousands of trucks in Limba

Emphasizing the success of the scale from LEDs during the truce, the spokeswoman for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs called that Israeli authorities “make it easier for the help and our partners only a few kilometers” just a few kilometers. ”

UnrwaThe largest assistance provider in the bar said that the UN agency has “over 3,000 assistance trucks” that are stuck outside Gaza.

Juliette Touma, director of communication, complained that such a “big dollar” opened, if food could come to hungry children and when the medicine could be used to treat people with chronic diseases.

“The clock is ticking. The Gates must be reopened, the siege must be abolished as soon as possible,” she insisted, as she called the release of Israeli hostages and return to the standard flow of humanitarian necessaries.

Inside Gaza, the help teams warn that the situation is desperate. “Even that (food) lines now have no because food is running out,” Unkinjski Mrs Touma said.

Nothing left for order for order

In updating Thursday, Ocha It was said that more than 80 in the community cuisine forced to close from the end of April, due to lack of stock. This number is growing “per day”, stimulating “widespread” hunger in Gaza, said the UN Assistance Coordination Office.

Improving Israeli allegations to help Reach Gazu redirected militant groups, both Mrs. Toums and the World UN organization (WHO) Spokesman dr. Margaret Harris described the “ultimate” system that set up in a place to combat this risk.

“Our stocks reach health institutions are intended to serve,” said Dr. Harris, adding that UN Health Agency was not witnessing to each diversion of health assistance.

“It’s not about the failure of the delivery of help in Gaza. It’s not about let him like” Dr. Harris concluded.

In the further notice of precautions, Mr. Elder UNICEF insisted that the use of a person’s recognition was proposed as a prerequisite for access to all humanitarian principles on the “screen and monitor intelligence and military purposes”.

He reminded that the truce earlier this year resulted in “huge” improvement of children’s nutrition.

“It meant food in markets, repaired by water systems … He thought people could access health care. It was meant to have thought of health care facilitators had medication they needed.”

‘Hauastefol “to refuse to help

Fast today and food, water, medications – “All for the child to survive” – ​​blocked, Mr. Elder said – “and in several ways, blocked”.

UNICEF spokeswoman also expressed concern that the Israeli plan risks the separation of family members “, while moving back and back to try to get help” with certain security sites “in the midst of current bombing.