Ross Smith, director of emergency preparations and response at the United Nations World Food Programs (WFP) this week, said, “We now need immediate action, as he told the press in Rome that there was currently hungry and starvation going on in Gaza”.
Read the alert issued by the Integrated Food Safety Phase Classification (IPC), “The worst of famine in the Gaza Strip was revealed.” UNS Hunger Monitoring initiative has concluded that increasing evidence suggests that “broad starvation, malnutrition and disease are increasing deaths related to hunger.”
It states: “The latest data indicates that most of the Gaza strip and in Gaza city, food threshold for rapid malnutrition has been reached for food consumerptung.”
Most of the already populated Gaza strips have a total area of 365 square kilometers (141 square mi) of more than 2 million inhabitants, currently living in highly crowded refugee camps at an even more limited place as the Israeli army has announced a large part of the strip militaryized zone.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently announced that “there is no starvation policy in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza.”
Israel has stopped the international journalist from entering Gaza. Dozens of Palestinian journalists have been killed.
‘Notorious ineffective and dangerous’
Since the weekend, members of the international community have been trying to find ways to reduce rapid sorrow in Gaza. On Sunday, Jordan and United Arab Emirates converted 25 tonnes of assistance to Gaza. Germany and France, therefore announced the Aircraft Mission.
Germany Channi Frederick Merz said, “This work can only make a small contribution to humanitarian aid, but it sends an important sign: we are here, we are in this field.”
Assistance organizations expressed disappointment.
“Using aircraft for the distribution of humanitarian aid is a fruitless initiative that is a smack of the condested,” doctors without borders (MSF) emergency coordinator said at the Gaza Jean Gai Vatox. Hey said the aircraft were “notorious and dangerous.”
Berlin -based Center for Humanitarian Action (CA) said it was “the most insensitive airlift” as well as “waste of symbolic politics and money”. Its director Ralph Sudhoff said that the airlines were 35 times more than the convoy of land.
Aerdrop does not reach those who need help
Marvin Fauder, for emergency relief specialist in the German charity Welthungerhilf, describes the aircrafts as “symbolic” and “ineffective”. He told DW that a fundamental problem of approach was that the aid would “be dropped into a high -risk environment, without coordination, a specified drop zone and without security structures.”
He said that it would probably not reach those who should do that “still sufficient mobile to fight in its own way through debris and crowded roads to reach a place where it is enough to assist for assistance.”
Almost every day, Palestinians are killed in an attempt to reach food in some hubs run by the controversial Gaza Humanitrian Foundation (GHF).
American non -profit president Donald Trump’s administration and Israeli are supported by the government and were established to distribute humanitarian aid, Effer captured the United Nations relief and work agency for East (UNRWA) and captured Gaza and other occupied Palestine region earlier this year. However, it has failed to provide security: The United Nations accused the Israeli army of firing on the people standing in the line. This week, United Nations High Commissioner Human Rights Volcker Turk said “more than a thousand people have been killed in late May because they tried to get food.”
Help of at least 600 trucks per day is required
International NGOs have asked Israel to allow unanimous admission to assistance in Gaza and for organizations that provided supplies on about 600 distribution hubs to resume their activities.
At a press conference in Berlin, Riyadh Oathman, the Middle East expert at the German -based Human Rights Organization Medico International, said that before 7 October 2023, Gaza and its economy population was being supplied by 500 trucks a day.
“Today, even 600 trucks are sufficient to meet the demand for one day, not only the necessary infrastructure and the healthcare system has been systematically destroyed in Gaza, but also agriculture,” he said.
A truck can do specific leaf for approximately 20 tonnes of assistance, including medical supply and drinking water, as well as food.
Israel has been giving some assistance to trucks in Gaza since Sunday, which is likely to be due to international pressure. The Israeli military body Joe Gaza provides the facility of entry of assistance to the Kogat, said 220 aid trucks crossed the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
On October 7, 2023, terrorist Palestinian organization Hamas and other groups killed over 1,200 people in Israel in a coordinated attack. He took 250 hostage back to Gaza. Israel launched a reversal and announced that it would destroy Hamas. Gaza Health Ministry says that at least 60,000 people have died, at least 147 from starvation.
After violating a ceasefire agreement in March, Israel blocked all support supply to Gaza for more than 80 days. Now, Israel says it is observing daily stagnation in fighting in parts of Gaza and allowing assistance through the land once again. Itmar Ben-Gawir, the National Security Minister of Israel’s far-flung, has criticized, saying that it is the same for the enemy to provide life aid.
Julia Dukro, general secretary of the German section of Amnesty International, said that “there was enough evidence that Israel is using hunger as a war weapon.” He called the German government to shut down arms supply to Israel and increase diplomatic pressure on the Israeli government.
‘Convoys can start within hours’
The Israeli government has denied access to several international NGOs to Gaza. Welthungerhilf can only provide assistance through local partners, Fauder told DW that a permanent ceasefire was important and that the border crosses were to be opened to allow humanitarian aid. Hey that if this happens, you can get help from Welthungerhilfe Jordan.
He said, “convoys can begin within hours, as soon as political circumstances on the ground allowed,” he said.
In contrast, he said, Aircrafts will call for logistic restructuring which will be expensive.
“It is very interesting that this is now being considered, at a time when the government wants to cut humanitarian aid by 53%,” Fedeer said. “In such a situation, it is difficult to spend millions on symbolic, ineffective aircraft.”
The German Air Force has some experience of leaving assistance in Gaza already. In spring 2024, the A400m military transport aircraft blew up the aircraft mission for 10 weeks, dropping 315 tonnes of assistance supply in total.
Jens Tharau contradicts for this article, which was translated from German.
