As food and aid distribution in Gaza continues to be plagued by violence and death, influential clans and tribes long-standing in the region are trying to secure aid convoys entering the region.
National gatherings of Palestinian clans and tribes helped accompany flour rare in northern Gaza and said they had begun efforts to protect the aid convoy and prevent plunder.
Aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip are restricted, resulting in scenarios confusion The vulnerable civilians were largely abandoned as armed gunmen and Israeli forces subsequently caused violence. One of Mukhtars – Alaa El-Din Al-Aklouk, one of the community leaders selected by the extended family, announced the plan with other leaders on Wednesday.
“The clans gather together to send messages of security and security to the Palestinian people,” he told CBC freelance photographer Mohamed El Saife.[The clans] All efforts will be made to provide assistance to those who deserve it… without any violence or abuse by anyone else. ”
Since May 27, Gaza's Ministry of Health said at least 549 people were killed More than 4,000 injuries have been reported near the U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) location, or while waiting for the entry of UN food trucks. According to witnesses who spoke to CBC News, it is not clear how many people the IDF has shot and killed because criminal gangs also exist.
GHF refused to accuse its aid distribution center of danger, saying it provided assistance in a “safe, controlled, responsible manner” that eliminated the risk of transfer. ”
War Crime Investigation
According to an exclusive report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz, when the Israeli military advocate general ordered an investigation into war crimes on Friday to charge Israeli soldiers deliberately opened fire by the Army.
Harrez said the unnamed officers and soldiers revealed that the commander “ordered the troops to shoot at the crowd or drive them away, even if it was obvious that they did not pose a threat.”
An IDF spokesman said in a statement to CBC News on Friday that the military rejected Haaretz's allegations, saying he did not instruct soldiers to intentionally shoot civilians, including those approaching the distribution site.
“In view of recent reports on incidents that have caused harm to the distribution centers close to civilians, the relevant IDF authorities are reviewing these incidents,” it said.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Prime Minister denied the allegations in a statement issued on Friday.
“Israel Defense Forces soldiers received clear orders to avoid harming innocent civilians – they took corresponding actions,” Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Clan members hold guns and sticks
As Gaza's police infrastructure collapsed in the war, clan members had taken up weapons to secure aid trucks and ensured they could safely reach NGO barracks and eventually provide them to people.
Armed and masked men who had covered the clan lined up along the road, some with guns and some with sticks as trucks entered Wednesday through the Zikim area in western Gaza City. When someone was too close to the truck, they controlled the crowd and fired a warning.
“Make sure the aid will be done by people from our clans,” Al-Aklouk said. “The clans assume the responsibility … to make it delivered to every Palestinian family.”
During Israel's nearly two years of military activity, most of the residents of Gaza have been in a sharp shortage of food and other essential supplies.
After a two-month ceasefire broke in March, Israel blocked aid supplies to Gaza for 11 weeks, prompting global hunger monitors to warn of famine. Since then, Israel has only partially blocked, reviewing all aid to Gaza and accusing Hamas of stealing some of them, which militant groups deny.
Community leaders condemn aid theft
Yazdan Al-Amawi, manager of Anera's Gaza branch, is a non-governmental organization that also operates in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon and Jordan, and with the help of clans, it secured aid in more than 20 pallets in its first cargo on Wednesday after the 110th day of 110.
“It’s almost on the verge of famine [in Gaza],” Al-Amawi told CBC News. “We are pleased that women and children and older people will soon be able to distinguish rations from these commodities. ”
At least 20 people were killed in Israel's fire near an aid allocation site in Rafah on Monday and 200 others were injured, according to medical staff. The Gaza Ministry of Health said the deaths were the latest mass shooting, killing at least 300 Palestinians in the past few weeks.
Another Mukhtar Abu Salman Al-Mughni said the aided theft was conducted by “bad apples” that the area is not considered part of the community.
He blamed the burglary on merchants, who subsequently raised the price of goods in the local market.
“The people's rights are stolen and sold,” he said. “This is something we will not accept and will not tolerate.”
“We will no longer allow thieves to steal merchants from the convoy and force us to buy at a high price,” Abu Ahmad Al-Gharbawi, another person involved in the tribal effort, told the Associated Press.
Israel accuses Hamas of aiding theft, stops distribution
Israeli officials said Thursday that it would prevent aid from entering northern Gaza, and two days later a video showed dozens of masked men, some holding rifles but most carrying sticks and riding AIDS trucks – videos of family members who once provided security.
But Netanyahu accused Hamas of stealing aid in a joint statement with Defense Minister Israel Katz, saying he ordered the military to propose a plan within two days to prevent Hamas from controlling aid.
The national gathering of Palestinian clans and tribes replied that there was no reference from the Palestinians, which was a reference to Hamas. Hamas denies any involvement.
Israeli strikes attacked a street in the central Gaza city of Deir El-Balah, and witnesses said a group of people bought a bag of flour from a Palestinian police force, confiscating the cargo from the gang’s aid convoy.
The strike appears to be targeting members of SAHM, a security department whose mission is to stop predators and combat merchants who sell burglary assistance at high prices. The department is part of the Ministry of Interior led by Hamas in Gaza, but includes members of other factions.
The Israeli military did not comment during Thursday's strike.
The video of The Consequences shows the bodies of several young people on the streets, with blood scattered on the sidewalks and the walls of buildings. According to the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the deceased included one child and at least seven SAHM members.
According to the Israeli Soles, when Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, the war in Gaza was triggered, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel then killed about 56,331 Palestinians in the air war in Gaza, more than half of which were women and children.
