Israel bans access to Gaza aid distribution points amid ‘renovation’ claims

The Israeli army announced that Palestinians are prohibited from approaching so-called humanitarian aid distribution points today due to “renovation and reorganization work.”

Army Spokesperson Avichay Adraee stated in his announcement that the so-called humanitarian aid distribution points in Gaza would not be open today due to “renovation, reorganization, and efficiency improvement work.”

Spokesperson Adraee said, “Residents of the Gaza Strip; pay attention to the announcement by the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) that it will close humanitarian aid distribution centers on Wednesday.”

Adraee emphasized that today, movement on roads leading to the so-called aid distribution points, “considered conflict zones,” and entry into the distribution center areas are strictly prohibited.

As a result of the Israeli army targeting Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid yesterday morning at the El-Alem so-called aid distribution point in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, 27 people lost their lives.

In a statement made yesterday by the Palestinian government’s Media Office in Gaza, it was announced that 102 people had been killed and 490 injured in attacks by the Israeli army targeting Palestinians struggling with hunger in distribution areas established under the guise of “aid” by the US-undertaken, Israeli-supported Gaza Humanitarian Fund since May 27.

Israel’s new weapon in Gaza: Aid distributions

The US-undertaken, Israeli-supported Gaza Humanitarian Fund announced on May 27 that it had “begun operations in Gaza” and that trucks for so-called aid distribution were on their way.

The Israeli army, however, announced that four so-called aid distribution centers had been established in the Gaza Strip, three in the south and one in the north.

In the Israeli army’s statement, which declared more than 80% of the Gaza Strip a prohibited zone for Palestinians by dividing it into cantons, it was noted that two of the so-called aid distribution centers on the Morag Corridor had commenced operations.

On the first day of the so-called aid distribution, three Palestinians were killed and dozens injured as a result of fire opened during the chaos that erupted when Palestinians, subjected to starvation by the Israeli army, flocked to the center in Tel Sultan.

Images from the GHF-controlled distribution point were likened by social media users to symbolic photographs taken at concentration camps established by German Nazis during World War II.