Israel threatens more Gaza aid restrictions : NPR

The Palestinians pushed to receive a hot meal from a charity in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.

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Amman, Jordan – While the Israeli soldiers move to move the entire population of Gaza City, help organizations warn that the military offensive and the new Israeli restrictions on aid groups which should be implemented next week will create an even more important catastrophe in an already enrmed territory.

As part of its planned takeover of Gaza City, Israel told residents to move south or risk being killed. But The International Committee of the Red Cross And others warn that there is no safety, food, water or shelters in places where Israel warns them.

He calls outline warnings for hundreds of thousands of “incomprehensible” Gaza civilians.

After almost two years of war, help providers say that the health care system has collapsed, even if the number of injured, sick and hungry Palestinians continues to increase. The most eminent world group not supported by hunger last month said that the conditions in Gaza City and the North had reached the level of famine and that it spread to the center and south of Gaza by the end of this month if nothing was done.

This as aid groups say that Israel continues to greatly restrict food and drugs in Gaza.

“Not only is there not enough help, but more and more people are injured and sick and suffering from malnutrition,” explains Amade Bazerolle, Gaza Emergency Director for Doctors Without Borders. “Not only that, but the number of patients is exponential for the moment.”

Israel said this week that he interrupted all help to Gaza City while he degenerates attacks there in what he says he is his fight against the militant Hamas group.

Bazerolle said by adding to the difficulties posed by Israeli restrictions on the contribution of medical supplies, the attack on Israel in July against a warehouse of the United Nations World Health Organization in Gaza exhausted more.

“This has put great stretching on the health system which is already beyond the edge of collapse. We are in the collapse for the moment,” she said.

The WHO says it has lost most of its stocks in the strike, including surgical and traumatized supplies, drugs and the treatment of poorly fed children.

Israel said at the time without providing evidence, he responded to a militant threat when she struck the warehouse.

Help groups say that famine has been accelerated by the Israel stop to all aid to the Gaza Strip for almost three months this year, from March.

When the aid has resumed, it has sidelined the UN with a controversial Israeli distribution system supported by the United States supervised by armed military entrepreneurs.

A medical system “by the edge”

WHO says that 94% of all Gaza Strip Hospitals have been damaged or destroyed during Israeli air strikes. There are no hospitals operating in Rafah, the city near the Egyptian border destroyed by Israel where Israeli officials said that the forced Palestinians of Gaza are concentrated.

The Gaza health authorities say that some 160,000 Palestinians, many of whom were women and children, have been injured in Israeli attacks since the war started almost two years ago. They say that more than 63,000 have been killed. Israel says that nearly 1,200 Israelis and others were killed during the attack by Hamas in October 2023.

The greatest imminent threat Is the request for Israel that aid groups operating in Gaza are re -registered under new rules. The rules include the supply of personal data on all local and international staff and their families – a requirement that most groups have rejected. This decision leaves aid organizations which do not comply with the deadline of Israel on September 9 to risk being closed next week.

“Gaza’s health system is already on the edge,” said NPR questions in a written answer. “If support for the rescue of NGOs and emergency medical teams is compromised, health services will be seriously reduced and more lives in danger.”

He said NGOs – non -governmental organizations – were “backbone” health care, keeping hospitals in progress and providing critical treatment.

Bazerolle, of Doctors Without Borders, says that with so many health workers killed by Israel, organizations are afraid that Israel can use personal details to target staff.

“We were never asked for this type of information in another country,” she said, adding that they were waiting for an explanation of Israel on how it will use the data.

“We hope they will understand and explain,” she said. “What is said is that if we are not recorded, we have 60 days to end all operations.”

The United Nations also said that new regulations could be used to reject all groups that criticize Israeli policy to provide help.

Israel accused NGOs that Refuse to provide details on the staff and their families to eventually be linked to Hamas.

The WHO said that Israel in July rejected the requests of 29 NGOs which, according to him, were not allowed to send humanitarian supplies to Gaza, preventing delivery of rescue aid. He said this decision had the greatest effect on women, children, the elderly and people with disabilities.

Israel has argued that restrictions are aimed at stopping at Hamas grabbing food and medication. But help groups and An assessment of the internal American government said there are no evidence of looting widespread by the group.

Aid groups claim that the flood of Gaza with aid is not only the only way to avoid more preventable deaths, but would also reduce aid using the black market because the prices of foodstuffs would drop considerably.

“Palestinians in Gaza need a flow of coherent humanitarian aid, but NGOs are refused the authorization of Israel intended to block the impartial distribution of aid by trusted organizations,” said Cindy McCain, head of the World UN program. It called on Israel to allow WFP to restart its 200 food distribution points through the Gaza Strip with community kitchens and bakeries. WFP, which has been operating for six decades, is the world’s largest humanitarian aid organization.

The replacement of Israel for the UN, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), only manages three distribution sites in Gaza, six hours walk from the main population centers. The group behind the Famine report said that he had found that the distribution of GHF’s ​​aid had only lasted 23 minutes a day.

New customs fees for help trucks

In Jordan, a few hours away from the border with Gaza and traditionally a major aid corridor, government officials say that Israel has made it more difficult to send the necessary help convoys.

The Jordanian Minister of Communications, Mohammad al-Momani, told NPR that Israel had recently started to impose customs fees between $ 300 and $ 400 per truck to help to cross Israel in Gaza.

He said between what seemed to be the arbitrary delays of Israel and the rejection of certain expeditions, and the attacks of Israeli settlers trying to prevent food from going to Gaza, which should be a three -hour journey had become up to 36 hours for certain convoys.

“They throw rocks and sharp objects under the wheels of the trucks,” he said about the attacks of the colonists.

Bazerolle said that uncertainty and restrictions had greatly increased the difficulty and cost of Aid to Gaza, most of them given by foreign governments and private donors. She says that Israel last month also began to demand convoys of helping NGOs on the main road to Gaza to use Israeli military escorts to ensure that nothing is added to expeditions after inspections in accordance with Israeli in Jordan, a requirement rejected by most groups.

Another help manager with knowledge of logistics speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak publicly confirmed the new requirement.

“Now we all have things stuck in Jordan,” says Bazerolle. “So we think:” OK, we have to send things from Jordan to elsewhere “because there is no direct flight from Jordan to Israel.”

She said that a possibility was to send goods to Jordan to the United Arab Emirates, then from Dubai to Israel. “It’s how crazy it’s right now,” she said.

She added that doctors without borders faced a situation where they will have to position the amount of stock three times that they would normally do because they cannot count on the accessible routes. And it says that heat shorten the conservation time of shipments often maintained near borders.

Israel did not respond to requests for comments on customs fees and military escorts.

It is also possible that aid groups are an opaque list of equipment and supplies that Israel rejects as having the potential to be used by activists.

It often understands almost everything with metal, including tent posts or wheelchairs, according to UN officials. Israel has refused to provide NPR with a current list of prohibited items.

Bazerolle says that his organization had trouble bringing an operating table and desperately needed external fixers to fix the bones, autoclaves, sterilization supplies and water desalination equipment.