DaysofPal— The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) has denounced Israel’s newly announced humanitarian aid mechanism in Gaza as a clear breach of international law designed to uproot Palestinians and cement military control, the organization said in a statement Sunday.
According to Euro-Med, the plan is intended to “mislead global public opinion,” which is increasingly alarmed by the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza. “Based on our field team’s assessment, it is virtually impossible to meet current needs through a restricted, centralized system controlled by the occupying power,” the statement warned.
Under the scheme, aid would be funneled through four distribution centers. Euro-Med cautioned that none can deliver assistance safely or effectively—and that the very design aims to drive tens of thousands of residents from Gaza and North Gaza governorates southward.
Household heads would face invasive security screenings before receiving supplies, risking forced disappearance or arbitrary arrest. Even then, families would be compelled to traverse up to 30 kilometers each week on unpaved roads and without transport to claim meager rations, the monitor said.
The new mechanism “lacks any legal or humanitarian legitimacy and flagrantly violates international law and relief standards,” the group added. Rather than alleviating hunger, it represents “a deliberate policy of managed starvation.”
“An Israeli government that uses starvation as a central tool of genocide cannot be a party to any humanitarian operation,” Euro-Med insisted. It called on all states to act immediately to restore unhindered aid access and lift Israel’s unlawful siege of Gaza.
An earlier report in the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth detailed that three distribution points have been set up in Rafah between the Morag and Philadelphi corridors, with a fourth site on Salah al-Din Street between Netzarim and the central refugee camps. Each compound is ringed by internal boundary walls and dirt berms, further restricting movement and access.
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