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It was unclear who was overseeing the convoy. Philippe Lazzarini, the top of the primary U.N. assist group that serves Palestinians, said that no U.N. company was concerned and the Israeli navy stated the help was to be distributed by “personal contractors.”
Lawlessness is rampant in lots of elements of northern and southern Gaza, residents and assist officers say, with no authority rising to take cost of public order after Israel’s ouster of Hamas forces in these areas.
The World Food Program stated final week that it has paused meals deliveries to northern Gaza due to the challenges of safely delivering assist there.
Mr. Lazzarini stated on Sunday that UNRWA, whose funding has been suspended by a number of donor nations because the U.N. launched an investigation into a couple of dozen staff accused of collaborating within the Oct. 7 assaults, was final capable of ship assist to northern Gaza over a month in the past.
In current weeks, giant crowds of Gazans have repeatedly rushed assist convoys, and seized provides, sometimes whereas armed. Some Gazan cops have refused to protect the convoys as a result of they concern their affiliation with the Hamas-run authorities makes them targets of Israeli troops, Western officers say.
A Hamas official, Izzat Al-Rishq, blamed Israel for the deaths and stated that Hamas wouldn’t enable negotiations aimed toward stopping the warfare for use as “a canopy for the enemy’s continued crimes in opposition to our individuals within the Gaza Strip.”
The Palestinian Authority, which controls elements of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, referred to as the deaths a “heinous act” by Israeli forces and demanded that the worldwide group, particularly Israel’s chief ally, the United States, intervene to cease Israel’s offensive.
Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesman, stated the United States was “urgently looking for further data on precisely what occurred” and had been in contact with the Israeli authorities since early Thursday about its investigation into the deaths.
“We will likely be monitoring that investigation carefully and urgent for solutions,” he stated.
