MSF demands immediate dismantling of GHF

GAZA, Aug. 07 (YPA) -The international medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Thursday called for the immediate shuttering of the Israel-US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), denouncing the distribution sites it operates as “essentially death traps.”

In a statement, MSF General Director Raquel Ayora expressed shock at the scale and brutality of the recent violations, saying: “In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.”

She confirmed  that the organization’s teams had documented harrowing scenes during aid distribution operations.

“Children shot in the chest while reaching for food. People crushed or suffocated in stampedes. Entire crowds gunned down at distribution points,” she said.

“The GHF distribution sites masquerading as ‘aid’ have morphed into a laboratory of cruelty,” Ayora added. “This must stop now.”

MSF called for “the immediate dismantling of the GHF scheme” and the restoration of the UN-coordinated humanitarian aid delivery mechanism.

It urged governments around the world, especially the United States, as well as private donors, to “suspend all financial and political support for the GHF, whose sites are essentially death traps.

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