GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Ramy Abdu, head of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, said the US-Israeli plan to entrust the distribution of limited aid in Gaza to international companies is not a humanitarian project, but a calculated maneuver to impose a new form of siege, legalize starvation, and turn food into a tool of oppression that paves the way for uprooting the population from their land.
Abdu explained in a comment on his Twitter account on Thursday that the plan is being run by former US military personnel and tightly controlled aid organizations, and is being implemented through distribution centers at specific times, without any role given to the Palestinians themselves.
It is a flagrant violation of the duty to provide immediate, effective and unimpeded access to aid, as recognized by international law, he underscored.
The goal is not relief, but to impose control, buy time for Israel, expand its military grip on the land, and force the population to flee by exhausting and starving them, turning them into broken souls with empty stomachs waiting for a weekly meal, he elaborated.
“This is not a relief plan. It is rather a new form of siege, genocide and forced displacement, cloaked in the guise of humanitarian action,” Abdu said, calling for urgent and effective permission to bring in basic life essentials and humanitarian supplies to ensure a dignified life for the population, enabling them to build a future on their land.
“The Palestinian people are not begging. They do not want humiliating charity, but demand their full right to life, freedom, dignity, and to remain on their land,” he concluded.
Famine has already spread in the Gaza Strip in its most horrific form following the 68-days blockade of humanitarian aid through the closure of the Gaza crossings.
According to media sources, the plan stipulates that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation take responsibility for aid distribution, setting up four “distribution sites,” protected by security companies that participated in securing the Netzarim axis during the ceasefire.
