The meeting of an Israeli plan supported through the United States to the distribution of aid in Gaza was plunged into chaos on Tuesday. Dozens were demolished through Israeli shots, while crowds have left food distribution.
Michel Martin, host:
Today marks the 600th of the Israel War in Gaza, introduced in reaction to the October 7 attack. Since the war, tens of thousands of other people have been killed, adding many others in Israeli air movements in recent days.
Steve Inskeep, host:
Yesterday, yesterday, Israel implemented a new plan supported through the United States for the distribution of assistance in Gaza. Hungry crowds have invaded a place where food was destined to be distributed. Israel says he was shot, while witnesses say that other people have been sacrificed there. In a few minutes, we will listen to a former Israeli prime minister who now says that his country commits war crimes. We start with the most recent news.
Martin: Register for us now to tell us what happened and more about this new plan is the NPR Aya Batrawy correspondent in Dubai. Hi, Aya. Thanks for registering again.
Aya Batrawy, byline: Thank you, Michel.
MARTIN: Could you start telling us what happened in Gaza in this distribution yesterday?
Batrawy: Yes. There are those two surrounding spaces that have been created for paintings up to several kilometers and choose food plots. And therefore, it occurs after 3 months of, almost 3 months of general blockade through Israel, without foods that enter the territory and the mavens saying that a lot of thousands of other people now face the famine. So, what happened on the first day of this new distribution formula supported through the United States is that thousands of other hungry people have invaded one of those surrounding spaces where American marketing specialists were preparing food boxes. Witnesses say that marketing specialists fled and that the crowd simply took everything they could, even the scrap. The businessmen, in a statement, said they collapsed according to the protocol. Witnesses say that an Israeli helicopter opened the chimney in the region, dispersing the crowd. Israel says that his troops have triggered a warning. Hospital officials told NPR that another 50 people were injured and were killed after shooting.
Martin: Was there a formula in position before the crowd that replicates this site?
Batrawy: Well, in a statement, Hamas says that this incident reflects Israel’s failure to handle the humanitarian crisis that has created intentionally. Israel says that its purpose is to maintain Hamas’ help. But we talked with witnesses in the box of this scene, who said there was no projection at all. Everyone can simply take food boxes. Abu Mahmoud Abaza (pH), who on the site to get food, spoke on the scene and says it chaotic.
Abu Mahmoud Abaza: (spoken language in English).
Batrawy: He says: “There was no distribution formula. It was chaos. ” He says: “No one asked identifiers or anything. ” He says: “People are hungry and there will have to be a more important way to obtain food. ” Once again, unlike the way in which the UN distributes food or used to distribute food in Gaza centers, with identifiers and lists of needy families, this formula had none of this. There were no projections or lists or clarity about who makes a decision that obtains assistance and who does not.
Martin: And what does Israel have of all this?
Batrawy: Well, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the system. He says it works.
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Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister: Very difficult for Hamas to fly it, especially because we ensure this position. Well, we try the first. We will put a lot today. There was a loss of momentarily. Fortunately, we brought it back to the corray, we will put much more.
Batrawy: But one thing to also take into account, Michel, is that it says that the purpose is not only to maintain Hamas’ help, but to take the total population to the south. And Israel says that from there, other people can be transferred outside the Gaza doors.
Martin: And what do we know on stage now? Other people receive food?
Batrawy: Most people in Gaza live only one meal a day. It is above all a lens soup. Help teams are blocked through Israel to provide giant scale assistance, and those assistance organizations, such as the UN and others, refuse to participate in this new plan, saying that it is a political aid. However, the Trump administration says it supports the plan and says that the United Nations and other help teams are wrong to criticize it. They say yesterday 8,000 food boxes were distributed, it was not transparent to what extent it was taken in chaos. You know, each box feeds between five and six people for only 3 1/2 days, once again, other people have to walk through miles to the south to get this meal. No food also has the city of Gaza de Revery Oneed. None of those distribution sites is in the north. And so, you know, you have several food trucks last night with food for the city of Gaza for the first time in months through hungry crowds in the middle of Gaza right next to the trucks.
Martin: is NPR Aya Batrawy. Aya, thanks.
Batrawy: Thank you, Michel.