Oxfam accuses Israel of “deliberately” preventing aid from entering the Gaza Strip

The non-governmental organization Oxfam accuses Israel of “deliberately” preventing humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip, be it food, or medical and pharmaceutical materials, which it says is a violation of international humanitarian law. “Despite its responsibilities as an occupying power, Israel's policies and practices continue to obstruct and undermine, systematically and deliberately, any major international humanitarian response to the Gaza Strip,” the NGO report said. In particular, the NGO denounces the “unreasonably ineffective” inspection protocols for aid shipments, which create delays of “twenty days on average” for trucks to enter the Palestinian enclave, and even “attacks against humanitarian personnel, aid structures and convoys with humanitarian aid”. It also denounces the “routine” and “arbitrary” exclusion of various “dual-use” items, material that could (also) be used for military purposes. The NGO explains that bags of water and water analysis kits were discarded “without reason” at one of […]
Source: News Beast

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