Israel’s aid measures a gesture to allies horrified by Gaza starvation

Israel has responded to a continuous and growing international condemnation that it is responsible for hunger in Gaza by announcing a series of measures. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said “will improve the humanitarian response.”

It allows AirRoprops of Aid, implementing the first one himself during the night and allowing the UAE Arab Air Force to follow up with another later on Sunday.

The IDF also announced that it would allow a “tactical stop in military activity” in some areas and preparing “dedicated humanitarian corridors … to refute the wrong claim of deliberate hunger.”

The enthusiasm has condemned the “deception”. He said that Israel was “whitening its image in front of the world.”

Israel later carried out an air strike during the “tactical stop”. Reports from the scene say that a mother named Wafa Huara and her four children, Sarah, Areej, Judy and Iyad were killed.

While Israel continues to insist that it is not responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and does not impose restrictions on the aid that enters Gaza, these allegations are not accepted by its close allies in Europe, the United Nations and other active agencies in Gaza.

New measures may be implicit acceptance by Israelis who need more effort.

It is likely that it is a gesture to the allies who have released strong statements to blame Israel for hunger in Gaza.

The last of which was, on Friday, July 25, from Britain, France and Germany was flagrant.

“We call on the Israeli government to immediately raise restrictions on the flow of aid and allow urgently the United Nations NGOs and humanitarian NGOs to carry out its work to take action against hunger. Israel must stick to its obligations under international humanitarian law.”

Israel followed a total siege of all aid in Gaza, with restrictions on the approval of the contents and caravans of aid. With the Americans, it has established a new aid distribution system through the so -called Gaza Humanitarian Corporation (GHF), which aims to replace the United Nations -managed aid network. Israel claims that Hamas stole aid from the United Nations regime. The United Nations says it is still waiting for the Israelis to support their claims with evidence.

The United Nations and other agencies will not cooperate with the GHF system, which they say is inhuman and military. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been looking for food have been shot since the GHF, according to the United Nations.

The retired colonel told the Special Forces that worked in GHF in Gaza microfitis that he saw American colleagues and Israeli Defense Forces opened fire on civilians. Both denied that they targeted civilians.

Jonathan Whital, head of the occupied Palestinian territories at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCA) has already condemned the methods used by GHF. Israel told him that his visa would not be renewed after it was published on social media a month ago that the GHF system brought it to Gaza “the circumstances that were created for killing … What we see is the massacre. It is hunger in weapons. It is forced displacement.

After Israel announced its new measures, Whital told the BBC that “the humanitarian situation in Gaza was not worse.”

He said that the new Israeli measures to change matters for the better will have to reduce the time it takes to allow trucks to transport the crossings to Gaza and improve the roads provided by the Israeli Defense Army for use.

Israel will also need to provide “meaningful assurances that people who are gathering to take food from the back of the trucks will not be shot by the Israeli forces.”

Whital was entering and outside Gaza since the war began, although this has now ended unless Israel decides not to withdraw its visa after all. He says that with the continued military operations in the Israeli Defense Army, “there is still an abomination of humanitarian law.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yuuf Galet are already subject to the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court last year, accused of joint criminal responsibility for “the crime of war from hunger as a means of war; crimes against humanity from killing, persecution, and other acts of others.” Netanyahu, Shalant and the Israeli state deny these allegations.

Israel has released a likable footage of a transport plane that drops aid platforms in Gaza. Presse lines photographed the back of the plane in the darkness of the night. The IDF said it had delivered seven packages of aid containing flour, sugar and canned food.

In other wars, I saw the aid that was dropped, whether from the plane itself or close on the ground while landing.

Air aid is a despair. It can also look good on TV, and it is published a good factor in the end something is done.

It is a raw process, you will not do much to end the hunger in Gaza. The ceasefire can only and a long -term assistant assistance can be done. Even large transport planes do not carry as much as a small caravan of trucks.

In Iraq, Kurdistan, after the 1991 Gulf War, the United States, the United Kingdom and others dropped the help of the C-130 transport plane, most of which are army shares, sleeping bags and the surplus of winter uniforms to tens of thousands who are trying to stay in the open in clay and high snow in the mountains on the borders of Iraq. I flew with them and watched the British air pilot and the Americans falling aid from the back shipping stairs of the aircraft, several thousand feet away over the people they need.

He was welcome enough. But when I managed a few days after reaching the improvised camps in the mountains, I saw young men running in the minefields to get the help that fell there. Some people were killed and distorted in explosions. I saw the families killed when heavy platforms fell on their tents.

When Mostar was besieged during the war in Bosnia in 1993, I saw the platforms of American military “ready meals”, which fell from the high height, scattered throughout the eastern side of the city that was constantly peeled. Some aid platforms were shattered across surfaces that have not been destroyed in one way or another due to artillery attacks.

Creators participating in relief operations are to drop aid from the sky as a last resort. They use it when any other access is impossible. This is not the case in Gaza. A short car in the north is ASHDOD, the modern container port in Israel. A few hours are the Jordanian border, which was used regularly as a supply line to help Gaza.

Gaza was one of the most populated places in the world before the war when the population of more than two million Palestinians managed to reach the entire tape. From the British side, the Gaza tape is a little smaller than White Island. Compared to American cities, the size of Philadelphia or Detroit is almost.

Now Israel has forced most people in Gaza to a small area on the southern coast, reaching about 17 % of Gaza’s lands. Most of them live in tents extensively packed. It is not clear if there is even an open space for educators in the sky for the goal.

Aid platforms that the umbrella has often dropped away from the people they need.

Each discussion will be done by desperate men trying to get food for their families, and the criminal elements that you want to sell for profit.