Israel halts aid in north Gaza, clans deny Hamas theft
Israel has prevented the help of aid from entering the Northern Gaza, but it still allows the south to enter, two officials after the exhibition of masked men in the aid trucks, which the clan leaders say that Hamas said they were protecting the help.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a joint statement with Defense Minister Israel Katz, ordered that the army was ordered to offer a plan within two days to prevent Hamas from seizing aid control on Wednesday.
They gave newly unidentified information showing that Hamas had seized the purpose for civilians in Northern Gaza. A video circulating on Wednesday, some of them are equipped with rifles, but most carrying the rod, and the man with dozens of masks who got on aid trucks showed.
Israeli government spokesman David Mencer told journalists on Thursday, saying that the aid continues to enter the south, but that no material entered the north, he said.
The US and Israeli -backed Gaza Humanitarian Relief Foundation, which operates aid distribution areas in South and Central Gaza, said that it is the only humanitarian organization that was allowed to distribute food in Gaza on Thursday.
A spokesman said the foundation is exempt to the region after the two -day suspension of humanitarian delivery.
The Israeli Prime Minister and the Ministry of Defense did not respond to Reuters’ requests for comments.
The Supreme Commission, representing the effective clans in Gaza, said that trucks were protected as a part of a aid safety process managed “only by tribal efforts”. The Commission said that no Palestinian fraction referring to Hamas did not participate in the process.
Militant Group Hamas, who has ruled the Gaza for more than twenty years, is now controlling only parts of the region after about two years of war with Israel and rejected any participation.
There are acute food and other basic materials after approximately two -year military campaigns, which displays most of the two million population of Israel’s population of Gaza.
Storing aid trucks and warehouses of materials is often looted by the Palestinians often desperate and starvation. Israel accuses Hamas of selling to help her own fighters or finance their operations.
Abu Salman Al Moghani, the representative of the Ghazan clans, said, “The clans came to create a posture to prevent attackers and thieves from stealing foods belonging to our people.” He said.
The Wednesday video was shared by former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who claimed that Hamas had taken control of the help of Gaza by the Israeli government. Bennett is seen as the most suitable challenge for Netanyahu in the next election.
Netanyahu also faced pressure through the right -wing coalition, some harsh members threaten to abandon cease -fire negotiations and presenting humanitarian aid.
The war began with Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and killed about 1200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 people hostage to Gaza.
In response, Israel launched a military campaign that killed more than 56,000 Palestinians with majority of local health authorities in Gaza.
Local health officials, at least 118 Palestinian Wednesday since the Israeli fire has been killed, he said.
