{"id":56958,"date":"2025-06-01T11:54:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=56958"},"modified":"2025-06-01T11:54:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:24:25","slug":"us-israel-plan-to-militarize-aid-in-gazadisastrous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/56958\/us-israel-plan-to-militarize-aid-in-gazadisastrous\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Israel plan to militarize aid in Gaza\u2018disastrous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The disastrous start of the food distribution coordinated by the newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation confirmed that the US-Israel plan to instrumentalize aid is ineffective,\u201d Lockyear said in a statement on Friday, according to Press TV.<\/p>\n

The statement noted that dozens of people were shot and injured by Israeli forces on the first afternoon of distribution in the southern city of Rafah on Tuesday, \u201cas wholly insufficient amounts of basic lifesaving supplies were distributed amid chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPalestinians \u2013 deprived of food, water and medical aid for nearly three months – were penned in by fences as they waited to receive basic necessities for survival. This is a stark reminder of the dehumanizing treatment imposed by Israeli authorities for more than 19 months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stressing that this approach is \u201cdangerous and reckless\u201d, Lockyear noted that \u201cfood is not being distributed where it\u2019s needed most but is instead directed only to areas where Israeli forces choose to amass civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis means the most vulnerable \u2013 especially the elderly and people with disabilities \u2013 have virtually no chance of accessing the food they desperately need.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThis unprincipled, failing mechanism\u201d seems to be a \u201ccynical\u201d ploy to feign compliance with International Humanitarian Law.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn practice, it uses aid as a tool to forcibly displace people as part of what appears to be a broader strategy to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip – and to justify the continuation of a war waged without limits.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeanwhile, the humanitarian system is being strangled by the restrictions imposed upon it. Israeli authorities have allowed a trickle of aid trucks into Gaza, only to obstruct them immediately after they cross the border, preventing life-saving assistance from reaching the people who need it most, including children and pregnant and lactating women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lockyear stated that forcing humanitarian organizations to deliver insufficient aid to a society pushed to the brink, amid chaos, \u201cis part of a broader tactic to reinforce a one-sided narrative: the only way to deliver aid is to militarize it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlong with displacement orders and bombing campaigns that kill civilians, weaponizing aid in this manner may constitute crimes against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lockyear called for \u201ca lasting ceasefire\u201d and the \u201cimmediate\u201d opening of Gaza\u2019s borders for humanitarian aid, including food, medical supplies, fuel and equipment to ease \u201cthis man-made catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel launched the campaign of genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023. It has killed at least 54,321 Palestinians there so far, according to the health ministry of Gaza.<\/p>\n

MNA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The disastrous start of the food distribution coordinated by the newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation confirmed that the US-Israel plan to instrumentalize aid is ineffective,\u201d Lockyear said in a statement on Friday, according to Press TV. The statement noted that dozens of people were shot and injured by Israeli forces on the first afternoon of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7100,7110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en","category-politic-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}