Geneva – Saba:
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said in a new report on Thursday that food distribution sites in the Gaza Strip, run by the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation," have turned into arenas of organized killing and humiliation.
MSF called for an immediate halt to these operations and the restoration of the humanitarian aid delivery mechanism under UN supervision.
Based on medical analysis and direct testimonies from patients and staff inside two MSF clinics, MSF documented targeted and indiscriminate violence perpetrated by Israeli enemy forces and American mercenaries against Palestinians at food distribution sites.
The report asserted that these sites "are used as a cover for military purposes by an Israeli-American agency known as American Gaza," according to the Palestinian Safa News Agency.
The report, titled "This Is Not Aid, This Is Premeditated Killing," explained that the two clinics repeatedly received mass influxes of wounded after each wave of shelling or gunfire near the distribution sites.
“Children were shot in the chest while trying to reach food. Others were crushed or suffocated in the crush. We saw entire crowds gunned down at distribution points,” said Raquel Ayora, MSF’s general director.
“In our nearly 54 years of work, we have rarely seen this level of systematic violence against unarmed civilians. This is a laboratory of cruelty that must stop immediately,” she added.
According to the report, wound analysis showed that 11% of the injuries were to the head and neck, and 19% to the chest, abdomen, and back, indicating precise and deliberate targeting rather than indiscriminate shooting. In Khan Younis, injuries were mostly concentrated in the lower extremities.
It stated that due to the lack of nutritional alternatives, families are forced to send their male children to these deadly locations, as they are the ones physically best able to endure the journey and the risks.
Earlier today, Thursday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that the total number of people killed in the fighting, waiting for aid and arriving at hospitals, had risen to 1,706, with more than 12,030 injured since the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" began operating in the Strip on May 27.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been facing an unprecedented wave of hunger since the Israeli enemy closed the Strip's crossings in early March, imposing severe restrictions on the entry of food, relief aid, fuel, and medicine.
With American and European support, the Israeli enemy army has continued to commit crimes of genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. This has resulted in the deaths of 61,258 Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom are children and women, and the injury of 152,045 others. This is a preliminary toll, with thousands of victims still buried under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulance and rescue crews.
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