“To-date two Gazans have required medical care that was delivered on-site — one relating to dehydration and another who was injured by others seeking aid,” says a GHF statement.
It says Hamas and other parties are bent on GHF failing and spreading false reports in order to harm the US and Israeli backed organization. One of those false reports claimed that GHF halted operations due to gunfire at one of its site earlier Wednesday.
While GHF urges journalists to verify sources before publishing developments pertaining to GHF, the organization yesterday issued a statement claiming that only a “small number” of Palestinians overran one of its aid sites when footage showed that thousands looted their sites.
In reviewing that incident in its latest statement, GHF avoids downplaying the scope of yesterday’s overrun, but says it was anticipated due to “acute hunger and Hamas-imposed blockades.”
Gaza aid group opens 2nd distribution center, day after first site swarmed by crowds
[IsraelTimes] Hamas-run health ministry says one killed, 48 hurt in Tuesday riot when shots fired at crowd; GHF denies site was overrun, problems were ‘anticipated,’ says no deaths at its locations
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Humanitarian Foundation said Wednesday it had successfully opened its second aid distribution center in southern Gaza, after the launch of its first site a day earlier descended into chaos when crowds stormed the facility.
Gaza’s Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...-run health ministry said Wednesday that at least one Paleostinian was killed and 48 others were maimed the day before when shots were fired on the crowd that swarmed the first site, in Rafah. The second site is also located in Rafah.
GHF said late Wednesday that there had been no deaths at any of its locations.
GHF "is continuing its operations today, opening another Safe Distribution Site and distributing aid without incident," the organization said.
"The situation remains urgent. But every hour, more people are fed," it added.
According to the foundation, both sites were now fully operational.
GHF said that the newly opened site delivered "all available aid without incident — approximately eight trucks’ worth."
In total, GHF said it has distributed "approximately 14,550 food boxes," or 840,262 meals across the two sites. Each box is intended to feed an average of 5.5 people for 3.5 days.
"Operations will continue scaling across all four sites, with plans to build additional sites across Gaza in the weeks ahead," the foundation said.
On Tuesday, crowds of Paleostinians broke through the fences around the first distribution site. An News Agency that Dare Not be Named journalist heard Israeli tank and gun fire, and saw a military helicopter firing flares.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops only fired warning shots into the air.
It was not known whether the alleged death and the injuries were caused by Israeli forces, American private contractors securing the site, or other parties. The foundation said its military contractors had not fired on the crowd but "fell back" before resuming aid operations.
Footage of the event appeared chaotic amid the looting and the gunfire.
Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights Office for the Paleostinian territories, told news hounds in Geneva on Wednesday that 47 people were maimed, mostly by gunfire.
"From the information we have, there are about 47 people who have been injured" in Tuesday’s incident, Sunghay told the UN correspondents’ association.
He added that "most of those injured are due to gunshots" and based on the information he has, "it was shooting from the IDF."
Sunghay stressed that his office was still assessing and gathering information on the full picture of events.
"The numbers could go up. We are trying to confirm what has happened to [the injured]," in terms of their condition, Sunghay added.
He also expressed concern about whether injured people would have access to medical aid in the devastated Strip.
A medical source in southern Gaza told AFP that after Tuesday’s stampede at the GHF site, "more than 40 injured people arrived at Nasser Hospital, the majority of them maimed by Israeli gunfire," adding that at least one had died since.
The source added that "a number of other civilians also arrived at the hospital with various bruises."
IDF front man Colonel Olivier Rafowicz told AFP, referring to the maimed civilians, "We are checking information from the UN. At the time we are speaking, we have no information on this matter."
Israeli soldiers "fired warning shots into the air, in the area outside" the center managed by the GHF, he said, adding that "in no case [did they fire] towards the people."
Rafowicz added that "Hamas is doing everything to prevent humanitarian aid
."GHF on Wednesday denied that the site had been overrun or destroyed, and said it had "anticipated" coming under pressure "due to acute hunger and Hamas-imposed blockades, which create dangerous conditions outside the gates."
"As in all emergency response situations, particularly in conflict zones, this type of reaction from stressed beneficiary populations is expected and we remain prepared to continue providing life-saving assistance should disruptions occur," the group said.
There was reportedly more trouble overnight Tuesday, with footage circulating on social media showing dozens of Gazooks taking control of a humanitarian aid truck that arrived in the Nuseirat area in central Gaza and unloading its contents.
According to reports, during the night, looters pillaged 18 trucks carrying aid that had been intended for the northern Gaza Strip, and beat the drivers. Four trucks were said to have been destroyed. It was not immediately clear if the trucks were operating under the GHF. Some aid distribution is still being carried out using previous systems.
Aid organizations had warned of the risk of looting by desperate civilians when aid was resumed.
War in the Paleostinian enclave was triggered on October 7, 2023, when the Paleostinian terror group Hamas, which rules Gaza, led a devastating invasion of southern Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
The incident in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip came days after the partial easing of a total aid blockade on the Paleostinian territory that Israel imposed on March 2, leading to severe shortages of food and medicine.
Since aid deliveries have resumed, 876 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies have entered Gaza, according to the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, including 121 trucks on Wednesday.
Some of the truckloads were to the new aid distribution sites in southern Gaza’s Rafah. The contents of many of the trucks were still awaiting collection on the Gazook side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing, after first being inspected there by Israeli authorities.
Israel has said it means for the GHF to take over aid operations, to prevent Hamas from siphoning off supplies that are supposed to go to the general population.
The UN and other international organizations have withheld backing for the GHF.
Not Invented Here syndrome, common to all organizations.