Construction sites appear in the gas aid plan in Israel-sustage rejected by the UN show images

Israel is preparing a series of Gaza sites that could be used as distribution centers for humanitarian aid in a contentious new plan, satellite images show.

The Israeli government has stopped supplies of food and medicines to Gaza in March.

The ministers said this move, which was condemned by the European and Middle East, was intended to put pressure on Hamas to release his other hostages. Israel also accused Hamas of stealing help – a claim that the group denied.

The UN said the blockade had caused a strong shortage of food, medicines and fuel, and a rating on Monday warned that the gas population of about 2.1 million people was a “critical risk” of starvationS

The United States confirmed last week that it is preparing a new system to provide a series of hubs inside Gaza, which will be managed by private companies and protected by security and Israeli forces.

Images analyzed by the BBC show that the Earth has already been cleared, with new roads being built in recent weeks and organized areas in a number of places in southern and central gas.

Israel did not publicly say where the hubs would be, but the humanitarian sources -informed earlier by Israeli officials -told the BBC to check that at least four centers would be built in the southern Gaza and one north near the corridor in an unobtrusive, strip of land, which would effectively be controlled.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – an organization created to support the plan – it is initially said that food, water and hygiene kits will be delivered to 1.2 million people, less than 60% of the population.

On Wednesday, he announced that operations would be launched before the end of May and it seems that Israel would allow help through normal channels until its distribution centers work completely. He also called for the construction of auxiliary centers in North Gaza, something that is not foreseen in the original plan and which has led to criticism that people will be forced to move south.

UN agencies have insisted that they will not cooperate with the plan – which is in accordance with a pre -approved Israel government – saying that it is contrary to the basic humanitarian principles.

A UN Spokesman for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCA) has accused Israel of seeking to use “food and fuel as a lever as part of a military strategy.”

“All help will be channeled through a handful of militarized hubs,” Olga Cherevko told the BBC.

“This type of arrangement will tear off huge areas of gas – especially the most vulnerable, which cannot move easily or otherwise are marginalized – by any help.”

Meanwhile, Bushra Khalidi of Oxfam has defined the new plan as Fars.

“No logistical solution will cope with Israel’s strategy for violent displacement and use of hunger as a weapon of war. Raise the siege, open the intersections and let’s do the job.”

Of course, the proposed new system has not yet had a final write -off by the Israeli government.

BBC check the satellite images used to identify four potential sites based on the limited information available on their locations.

The sites are similar in size, shape and design of existing outdoor distribution sites inside the gas, such as Erez, Erez West and Kissufim. The largest site we looked at is more large -more compassionate with the area inside the gas of Kerem Shalom Crossing.

Our image analysis shows a significant development of one of the sites in southwestern gas, near the ruins of the village, which is now the basis of Israel’s defense forces (IDF).

The satellite photos from the beginning of April show the construction of a road there and a large placement area surrounded by Bermi – large protective barriers made of accumulated sand or land – about 650 m (2130 feet) from the border with Egypt.

A high resolution image, captured on May 8, shows bulldozers and excavators working on a part of a land covering about 20 acres (8 hectares). IDF’s armored vehicles are in a fortified building nearby.

A photo taken geological by BBC Cerify also indicates that the lighting is installed around the perimeter.

More images of May 11 and 12 show this, along with three other sites, continues to expand. One site is about half a kilometer away from the UN eight warehouse and 280 m from another large warehouse.

Stu Ray – Senior Image Analyzer with Mckenzie Intelligence – agreed that sites would probably be sure of distribution centers. He noted that some of the facilities are “next to IDF operating bases, which connect to IDF, which wants to have some control over the sites.”

Analysts with another intelligence company Maiar said the facilities seem to be designed with separate truck entrances to move and exit other gaps in the bermes that would be suitable for pedestrian entrances.

IDF did not comment on potential help centers when he turned from the BBC, but said his gas operations were carried out “in accordance with international law.” COGAT – the Israeli body responsible for governing the intersections in Gaza – did not respond to a request for comment.

Three of the four sites located by the BBC are south of the newly created Morag corridor of IDF.

It is an Israeli war zone that passes through the Gaza Strip and divides the southern cities of Khan Eunice and Rafa.

As the IDF created a security zone there in early April, a six -miles (10 km) road, covering two -thirds of the gas width, bordering on defense bermes and IDF, was built.

This new path leads directly to one of the development sites visible in satellite images, and the existing road connects it with two more.

The whole area has been subjected to extensive Earth clearance by IDF. BBC Verify has geolocated videos and images of areas throughout the Morag corridor, and to the south of it, filmed by Israeli forces that show controlled destruction using explosives and heavy machines and widespread destruction of buildings.

Humanitarian sources said the Israeli briefings show that the aid would enter Gaza through Kerem Shalom cross.

Satellite images show current construction works that have happened there in the last few months, with the obvious expansion of its storage areas and new roads added.

As Israel stopped new supplies for help in March, the UN reiterated that it had an obligation under international law to ensure that the basic needs of the population under its control were satisfied.

Israel insisted that he is responsible for international law and has no shortage of assistance in Gaza.