UN humanitarian office rejects Israeli plan to shut down current aid system in Gaza

Israel is monitoring the situation on the ground, and there is no shortage of aid in Gaza,

ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein said in a statement posted on social media, rejecting accusations that

Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to... the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries,

the firebrand top official said at a conference on Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

There is no food, no medicine, and the announcement of an aid distribution plan is just to distract the world and mislead global public opinion,

Shawa said, referring to reports of a new Israeli plan for humanitarian aid delivery that has yet to be implemented

According to Article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, a side is not obliged to allow in aid if it is 'likely to assist the military or economic efforts of the enemy,

Marmorstein said

Israel has not stopped the war, the killing, the bombing, the destruction, the siege, and the starvation — every day — so how can they talk about expanding military operations?"

Awni Awad, 39, told AFP

Israel's policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with the population,

he said

Hashem suffers from iron deficiency anemia. He is constantly pale and lacks balance, and is unable to walk due to malnutrition,

she told AFP

I call on the world to witness the famine that grows and spreads every day,

he said

The reality is that Israel is killing Palestinians in Gaza by bombing, shooting, or through starvation and denial of medical treatment,

he said

She was four months old and weighed 2.8 kilograms (6.2 pounds), which is very little. Medicine was not available,

she said

The Israeli announcement about expanding military operations in Gaza is just talk for the media, because the entire Gaza Strip is occupied, and there is no safe area in Gaza,

he said

This doesn’t just pinpoint and destroy every organization that is vocally critical of the government,

Gvaryahu said

There’s no reason to believe that that data would be held and treated in good faith, given the arbitrary nature of staff arrests and extrajudicial killings

of humanitarians, Joseph Belliveau, executive director of the U.S.-based medical charity MedGlobal, said in an interview

Ariel Kallnernational suicide, Knesset member

I have no problem with NGOs. I have a problem with FGOs — Foreign Governmental Organizations,

Kallner said

By framing humanitarian and human rights advocacy as a threat to the state, Israeli authorities can shut out organizations merely for speaking out about conditions they witness on the ground, forcing INGOs to choose between delivering aid and promoting respect for the protections owed to affected people,

the 55 nonprofit groups wrote in the letter Tuesday,

We are finally going to occupy the Gaza Strip. We will stop being afraid of the word 'occupation.' We are finally taking control of all humanitarian aid, so that it does not become supplies for Hamas. We are separating Hamas from the population, cleansing the Strip, returning the hostages—and defeating Hamas."

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich told Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal

What is required is a responsible stance that demands the immediate opening of the crossings and halts the use of food as a weapon of coercion in the conflict,

the group added

We urge the U.S. administration to correct its position, to stop providing cover for the crime of genocide and the starvation policy pursued by the occupation in the Gaza Strip, and to pressure it to end its aggression and open the crossings—which have been closed for more than two months—to allow the entry of all essential life-saving supplies."

Hamas in statement via Telegram, translated from Arabic

Donald Trumppresident

We're gonna help the people of Gaza get some food. People are starving and we're gonna help them get some food. A lot of people are making it very bad. Hamas is making it impossible because they're taking everything that's getting brought in but we're gonna help the people of Gaza because they're being treated very badly by Hamas."

U.S. President Donald Trump

Tom Fletcherbandmate

Blocking aid starves civilians. It leaves them without basic medical support. It strips them of dignity and hope,

Tom Fletcher, the top United Nations aid official, said in early May