BBC News, Jerusalem
BBCFood distribution was already announced, such as many before this, a post on social media depicted the Palestinians to get aid boxes in a portrayal.
This time, however, the invitation shared by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was different, with only women depiction.
The GHF Post said, “In our morning distribution at our place in Saudi district tomorrow, only women are welcome and welcome to get a food box.” “Men should avoid the site during this distribution.”
Mary Sheikh al-Eid wanted to feed her seven children. Mary’s sister Khawla said that her husband was already killed in war in the war and the family was alive on pulses soup for three weeks, but there was a struggle last week.
Khawla told the BBC, “His children and my children asked us not to go.” “Mary told me that she wanted it because it was a day for women and the number would not be big.”
GhfGHF’s food support distribution system has been killed by daily scenes of chaos and murder as it was implemented in May with Israel and American support.
The giant crowd is forced to cover long distances in Israeli military areas, which enter sites surrounded by private security contractors and Israeli soldiers. Palestinian men mostly take risks to secure a box of food for their family.
For two million people of Gaza, there are only four GHF distribution sites, but are usually not more than two open on any day.
On Thursday, Sisters Mary and Khawla set quickly for the aid point in the southern Rafah region. By the time he arrived, the scene was already anarchy.
Khavla said, “There was a huge crowd of women and the place seemed out of control, they could not stop assistance and distribute the assistance.” “They started spraying women with black pepper spray, then they brought stun grenades and started throwing them backwards to women.”
The sisters divided into destruction. Khawla’s clothes were filled with black pepper spray and so he called his sister, agreed to meet his brother’s house.
Shortly after, he called again, something was not right.
“This time a stranger picked up, he told me that the owner of the phone was shot and was being taken to the red cross. [field hospital]”Khwla said.
“I called again and this time I was told that he was shot in the head. I ran away like a mad and called again, but this time I was told that the owner of this phone was killed.”
Since the GHF aid system was established in late May, the United Nations says that more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army, while mostly the GHF is trying to get assistance to the United Nations and other aid convoys along with the distribution sites.
On Friday, a former American soldier working with GHF said he saw Israeli soldiers and security contractors firing on the crowd.
Anthony Aguiller told the BBC that he had never seen such a level of “cruelty and a civilian population, an unarmed, use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against the population with a hungry population.
Israel has earlier stated that its soldiers have fired “warning shots”, and it was implementing “learned lessons”. This accuses Hamas of provoking chaos near the aid points and disputes the number of reports reported.
Medics at Nasir Hospital in Khan Younis said that Mary Sheikh al-Eid died of a neck injury. She is one of the two women who were killed on Thursday’s “Women’s Day”.
The BBC also spoke to the family of another woman who was killed, Khadija Abu Anja.
A sister, Samah, who was with him, said he was traveling to an Israeli tank and a GHF aid site when the soldiers arrived.
From only a distance of meters, the soldiers first removed the warning shots as they asked them to go back, the Samah said on Friday.
“We started running back and then she hit the bullet,” Samah said. “They shot her in the neck and she immediately died.”
“I tried to take him and his blood fell on me, a man helped me take him to Nasir Hospital. After shooting him, the aid point was opened and he let people go inside.”
In response to the BBC, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) stated that he had “identified the suspects who had contacted them, pose a threat to the soldiers” and “warning shots” in early Thursday, but also said that it was unaware of the casualties.
It said that the shots were fired ‘hundreds of meters away’ from the distribution site, before the early hours.
RootsBy May, the United Nations agencies, other international organizations and donations provided most of the assistance to the population of Gaza at 400 distribution sites throughout the region.
The introduction of GHF has been criticized as an attempt to force people into dangerous military locations, as an attempt by many in the community in the community to weaken the previous human system and increase Israeli control over the distribution of food in Gaza. The United Nations refuses to cooperate with the GHF system that calls it immoral.
In recent times, Gaza has been widely condemned by several European governments and support groups of Israel’s control over food delivery.
Israel says that it introduced the GHF system as Hamas was previously deviating and earning profits under the help of the United Nations, although it has not given evidence to show this to happen on a systematic basis.
The daily report of death from malnutrition is collecting speed in Gaza. Humanitarian officials say the area should be filled with help to prevent total collapse.
Under international law, Israel has a responsibility to protect civil life as a military power occupying Gaza – to ensure that people can get food to survive. However, Israel has convicted Hamas and aid agencies for the current shortage, continuing to support the GHF distribution model.
Mary’s sister Khawla says, “I pray to God that they are closed, they are a trap of death.” “She went to get food for her children but returned by people carrying her body.”
Additional reporting by BBC’s Freelance Gaza Team and BBC Verifai’s Mohammad Shalabi
