Tel Aviv [Israel], July 12 (ANI): Gaza has become a graveyard of children and starving people, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said, accusing Tel Aviv of engineering a “cruel and Machiavellian scheme to kill” in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.
Gaza’s government office recently said that at least 773 Palestinians have been killed and 5,101 injured since May 27 while waiting at food aid distribution sites run by the United States- and Israel-backed GHS.
“Inaction and silence are complicity. Under our watch, #Gaza has become the graveyard of children and starving people,” Lazzarini wrote on X. “No way out. Their choice is between two deaths: starvation or being shot at. The most cruel and Machiavellian scheme to kill, in total impunity. Our norms and values are being buried. Inaction will bring more chaos. Time to act is overdue.”
According to Al Jazeera, Lazzarini’s remarks came after Israeli forces killed 15 people — including nine children and four women — as they waited in line for nutritional supplements in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza on Thursday. Medical sources confirmed that 45 people were killed that day, 11 of them near a GHF-run aid center in Rafah.
Earlier, Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN human rights office, said that between May and July 7, the UN had recorded 798 killings near aid distribution points in Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.
Israeli soldiers and U.S. contractors working with GHF have admitted to shooting unarmed Palestinians gathering for food, according to separate reports by Israeli outlet Haaretz and the Associated Press.
Reporting from the UN in New York, Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo said Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP), briefed the media, calling the situation in Gaza “the worst that he has ever seen.”
Skau, who recently returned from his fourth trip to Gaza, said the WFP has enough food to feed the entire population of Gaza for two months, but trucks are not being allowed in. Instead, Palestinians have been forced to rely on the GHF.
(ANI)
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