Doha: Palestinian officials, rights organizations, and UN bodies warned of the dangers posed by the Israeli occupation's misinformation regarding the partial entry of humanitarian aid and food supplies into Gaza Strip, which is experiencing a real famine due to the ongoing blockade and Israeli aggression.
According to Qatar News Agency, representatives of these institutions said the recent Israeli media and political narrative focusing on the passage of aid into Gaza is part of a deliberate campaign of deception aimed at misleading the international community and organizations, many of which have called for an end to the genocide and starvation policies being implemented in the Strip.
They pointed out that the Israeli occupation's justification for allowing limited humanitarian aid into Gaza - after nearly three months of widespread famine - reflects external pressure that forced this decision. However, they warned that the Israeli government is likely to exploit this step to ease international pressure without genuinely addressing the humanitarian catastrophe.
The Israeli occupation recently claimed it approved the entry of minimal aid into Gaza based on a military recommendation, limited to no more than nine trucks per day.
In this context, Director General of the Government Media Office in Gaza, Ismail Al Thawabta, stressed that the Israeli occupation claim of allowing only nine trucks carrying limited nutritional supplements for children amounts to nothing more than a drop in the ocean of urgent needs. He said it does not meet even the bare minimum requirements for survival in a region facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and famine.
Speaking to QNA, Al Thawabta stated that Gaza requires 500 aid trucks and 50 fuel trucks daily - amounting to 44,000 trucks over 80 days. However, with no real aid entering the Strip and a tightened blockade, the famine continues to deepen.
He underscored that the Israeli occupation completely shut down all crossings, preventing entry of even a single grain of wheat for nearly three months, as part of a systematic starvation policy targeting 2.4 million defenseless civilians.
Meanwhile, Chairman of International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) and human rights advocate Salah Abdul Ati, described the Israeli move to allow a very limited number of aid trucks after a comprehensive siege as a superficial and transparent attempt to mislead public opinion and maintain its policies of genocide against the Palestinian people.
In an interview with QNA, Abdul Ati said this weak and symbolic step, marketed as a humanitarian response to save Gaza from hunger, is nothing more than a blatant attempt to whitewash the image of the occupation while it continues its campaign of genocide, starvation, and systematic destruction.
He added that the symbolic entry of aid trucks can only be interpreted as a clear disregard for civilian lives and a political exploitation of humanitarian aid.
Abdul Ati further criticized arrival of personnel from American security firms, despite opposition from the United Nations, international organizations, and the entire Palestinian community to the joint US-Israeli aid plan. He warned that this approach aims to use humanitarian aid as a tool to engineer demographic changes, replace UNRWA and other international organizations, and implement a broader plan to empty Gaza of its population, forcibly annex it to the occupying state through killing, starvation, terror, and wholesale destruction.