UN agency denounces massacres at U.S.-Israel managed food distribution points

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The United Nations has issued a scathing condemnation of the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), calling its food distribution system in Gaza a “death trap” that has led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians. teleSUR

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00:00The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs denounced the killing

00:03of Palestinians at food distribution points in the Gaza Strip.

00:07Director of OSHA, Jonathan Whittle, pointed out that trying to survive in Gaza becomes

00:12a death sentence.

00:13In a briefing, Whittle warned that Israel is carrying out a massacre and is using hunger

00:18as a weapon.

00:19The organization denounced that Israel's militarized humanitarian assistance mechanism contradicts

00:24international norms.

00:30Israel's militarized humanitarian assistance mechanism is in contradiction with international

00:35standards on aid distribution.

00:39It endangers civilians and contributes to the catastrophic humanitarian situation in

00:44Gaza.

00:47The weaponization of food for civilians, in addition to restricting or preventing their

00:53access to life-sustaining services, constitutes a war crime and under certain circumstances

01:00may constitute elements of other crimes under international law.

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