UN condemns failure of GHF in distributing food supplies
NEW YORK, June 13 (YPA) – The United Nations condemned on Friday the work of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is supported by “Israel” and the United States, in distributing food supplies in the Gaza Strip under often chaotic conditions.
During a news conference in Geneva, Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said, “The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in terms of humanitarian principles, has failed and they are not doing what a humanitarian operation is supposed to do, which is to provide assistance to people where they are, in a safe manner.”
According to the United Nations, the distribution of food and essential supplies in the besieged and devastated Gaza Strip for more than twenty months of continuous aggression, has become more difficult and dangerous in the Palestinian territories, which are threatened by famine.
According to Laerke, “The United Nations is prepared to resume large-scale humanitarian aid operations as soon as Israel again allows the passage of a sufficient number of aid trucks.”
UN agencies and major NGOs, particularly international ones, operating in the Gaza Strip continue to refuse to cooperate with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a recently established organization that operates in an opaque manner.
Dozens of Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombing near aid distribution sites.
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