Cindy McCain, executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, says “politics” are the reason why aid is being allowed in inadequate amounts to Gaza as the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas intensifies. insisted.
“I’m not sure where the mistakes were made, but I know there’s been accusations that the United Nations is somehow not doing its job, and that’s far from the truth,” McCain said on CBS. Ta. Face the Nation was asked if Israeli officials would explain why they are not allowing aid groups to enter Gaza.
Allegations have surfaced in recent months that the United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency, commonly referred to as UNRWA, is a Hamas agent. UNRWA came under intense scrutiny earlier this year after Israel claimed that 12 of its employees took part in Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.
“Then I think again, this is politics. I think there are…different factions involved in this. What I want to know is when and where to receive food and to ensure that “It’s just that it can be distributed. That’s what I want the Israeli government to know.”
As CBS News correspondent Ed O’Keefe pointed out: Recent reports from WFP The region’s basic food needs require at least 300 trucks every day, but only nine convoys were able to enter the enclave. The report said 1.1 million people in Gaza have completely exhausted their food supplies and are suffering from devastating hunger.
“It’s nothing. It really is,” she said. “We can’t go on like this. You know, there’s impending famine in the north, and we’re really trying to convince diplomatic and political groups around the world that we have to come in, and that we have to do it sustainably.” Unless we can convince people that they have to do it in a free way…or they will die, and they are already dying.”
Mr McCain said aid groups needed “unfettered access” and that any method of getting food into the territory was not up to scale.
Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s policy is to allow as much aid as necessary to Gaza, but earlier this year he said that Israel’s policy is to allow as much aid as necessary to Gaza, but earlier this year, Israel said it would grant “the minimum amount of aid to Gaza” to help “achieve” its war goals. It said it was providing “limited humanitarian assistance.” CNN reported.
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) last week ordered Israel to take additional measures to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip and alleviate the humanitarian crisis. Israel was ordered to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and “shall not take any action that violates the rights of the Palestinian people in Gaza.”
The order comes after South Africa filed a lawsuit with the ICJ accusing Israel of committing genocide in the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in late 2023. More than 32,000 people have been killed in the conflict since early October, when Hamas invaded southern Israel, killing 1,200 people. About 250 people were taken hostage, and about 100 of them are believed to be still alive in Gaza.
Israel rejects these accusations and insists it has the right to protect itself from Hamas, the US-designated terrorist organization that has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007.
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