Israel’s assistance measures a gesture of allies, terrified by the fasting of gas

Israel responded to a prolonged and increasing international condemnation of being responsible for starving in Gaza by announcing a series of measures that Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said “would” improve the humanitarian response. “

It allows Airdrops for help by performing the first at night and allows the United Arab Emirates Air Force to follow with another Sunday later.

IDF has also announced that it will allow a “tactical pause in military activity” in some areas and has created “marked humanitarian corridors … to disprove the false claim for international hunger.”

Hamas condemned the moves as “fraud”. Israel, he said, “fades his image in front of the world.”

Later, Israel made an air strike during the “tactical pause”. Reports from the scene say that a mother called Wafaa Harara and her four children, Sarah, AREEJ, JUDY and IYAD, were killed.

While Israel continues to insist that he is not responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and does not impose restrictions on the assistance entering Gaza, these allegations are not accepted by his close allies in Europe or the United Nations and other agencies active in Gaza.

New measures may be tacit recognition from the Israelis that they should do more.

They are more a gesture for allies who have issued strong statements, accusing Israel of hunger in Gaza.

The last, on Friday, July 25, from the United Kingdom, France and Germany, was Stark.

“We urge the Israeli government to immediately eliminate the restrictions on the flow of aid and to urgently allow the UN and the humanitarian NGOs to do their work in order to take action against starvation. Israel must observe their obligations under international humanitarian law.”

Israel followed a common blockade of all Gaza assistance with restrictions on the approval of content and movement of convoys for assistance. With the Americans, it has created a new system for distributing help through the so -called GAZA Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), designed to replace the help network managed by the United Nations organization. Israel claims that Hamas has stolen help from the UN system. The UN says it is still waiting for the Israelis to support their claims with evidence.

The UN and other agencies will not cooperate with the GHF system, which they believe is inhuman and militarized. More than 1000 Palestinians were shot dead, trying to reach the four GHF sites, according to the UN.

A retired US Special Forces colonel working for GHF in Gaza told the BBC that he saw American counterparts and IDF soldiers open civilian fire. They both deny that they have turned to civilians.

Jonathan Whital, the head of the occupied Palestinian territories of the UN service for the coordination of humanitarian issues (OCA) has already condemned the methods used by GHF. Israel told him that his visa would not be renewed after he published on social media a month ago that the GHF system had brought the Gaza “conditions to kill … what we see is a carnage. It’s a weapon hunger. It’s a forced displacement. It’s a death sentence.

After Israel announced his new measures, Whital told the BBC that “the Gaza Humanitarian situation has never been a worse.”

He said that for the new Israel measures to change the better questions, that it would have to reduce the time it takes to allow trucks to go through the Gaza transition and to improve the routes provided by IDF to use the convoys.

Israel will also have to provide “significant assurances that people who are gathering to remove food from the back of the trucks should not be shot by the Israeli forces.”

Whital enters and leaves the gas since the beginning of the war, though he is now over, unless Israel decides not to withdraw his visa after all. He says that as IDF’s military operations continue, “remains disgusting for humanitarian law.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister, Joab Gallant, are already the subject of arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court last year, charged with joint criminal liability for the “hunger war crime as a method of war; and crimes against humanity of murder, persecution and other non -causal actions.” Netanyahu, Gallant and the Israeli state deny the allegations.

Israel has released granular footage on a transport aircraft, putting pallets from aid in Gaza. Parachute lines killed the back of the plane in the dark of the night. IDF said he had delivered seven packages of help containing flour, sugar and canned food.

In other wars, I have seen the help of being dropped from both the plane and near the ground as it landed.

Air aid is an act of despair. It can also look good on television and spread a factor of feeling that something is finally done.

This is a rough process that will not in itself do much to end the hunger in the gas. Just termination of fire and unlimited, long -term help surgery can do so. Even large transport aircraft do not carry such a small convoy of trucks.

In Iraqi Kurdistan, after the Gulf War in 1991, the United States, the United States, the United Kingdom and others released help from the C-130 transport aircraft, mainly army rations, sleeping bags and unnecessary winter uniforms up to tens of thousands who are trying to survive outdoors in mud and snow high in the border of the border of the Irazer with the border of the Irazer of the Irazer. I flew with them and watched the British and American pilots releasing the rear load ramps of the aircraft several thousand feet over the people who needed it.

It was welcome. But when a few days later, when I was able to get to the makeshift camps in the mountains, I saw young men encounter mining fields to get help that landed there. Some were killed and crippled in explosions. I saw families killed when heavy pallets fell on their tents.

When Motat was besieged during the 1993 war in Bosnia, I saw pallets from US military “dishes ready to eat”, dropped from high altitude, scattered from the whole eastern country of the city, which was constantly firing. Some aid pallets crashed through roofs that were somehow not destroyed by artillery attacks.

Professionals participating in assistance operations consider the dropping out of heaven as a last resort. They use it when any other access is impossible. This is not the case in gas. A short driving north is Ashdod, the modern container port of Israel. A few more hours is the Jordan border, which is used regularly as a delivery line for gas assistance.

Gaza was one of the most densely populated places in the world before the war, when the population of more than two million Palestinians had access to the entire lane. In British, the Gaza Strip is a little smaller than White Island. Compared to US cities, this is approximately the size of Philadelphia or Detroit.

Now Israel has forced most of the Gaza people in a tiny southern shore area, amounted to about 17% of the Gaza land. Most of them live in densely packed tents. It is unclear if there is even an open space that they seek to strive for.

Pallets of parachute are often landed away from the people who need it.

Each pallet will fight from desperate men who are trying to get food for their families and from criminal elements who will want to sell it with profits.