Eight-minute race for food: How GHF points in Gaza become ‘death traps’

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Food-deprived Palestinians in Gaza get as little as eight minutes to grab aid from sites of US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), The Guardian reports.

The four GHF sites — Tal al-Sultan, Saudi neighbourhood, Khan Younis and Wadi Gaza — are located in evacuation zones, meaning that displaced Palestinians have to enter the areas they have previously been ordered to leave.

Citing data on the GHF’s Facebook page, The Guardian noted the sites remain open for as little as eight minutes at a time, and in June the average for the Saudi site was 11 minutes.

The amount of time between the Saudi area site’s opening time being announced and the opening itself decreased dramatically in June, the report noted.

Palestinians wait for hours for a centre to open, some trekking the bombed terrain at night to make up for how far the points are.

“We have purged our hearts of fear,” Raed Jamal says of his near daily walks to the site.

“I need to bring food for my children so they don’t die of hunger.”

Read more here.

 People killed and injured while seeking aid in Gaza. — Courtesy The Guardian
People killed and injured while seeking aid in Gaza. — Courtesy The Guardian

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