In the video: Aerial footage of the operation to introduce humanitarian aid to the northern Gaza Strip, showing how the Palestinian crowd attacked the trucks and as a result dozens were killed from overcrowding, crowding and trampling/IDF spokesman
Officials in the defense establishment harshly criticized the political echelon following operational ideas from the field that were leaked to the media, thereby reducing the chance that Israel would receive a return from bringing the aid trucks into the North.
Some defined the leak as "serious" and as harming the sensitive negotiation process.
In recent weeks, the Americans have put pressure on the Israeli government to deliver humanitarian aid through the northern Gaza Strip, to alleviate the water and food shortage in the region.
Between 200-300 thousand Palestinians are now in the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City.
They are in "pirate shelters" inside educational institutions and community centers that are not coordinated with UNRA. So far, the only way to bring humanitarian aid to them is to flow it from south to north, through the Kerem Shalom crossing and the Egyptian Rafah crossing, while coordinating with the IDF Coordination and Liaison Headquarters. in the Gaza Strip.
About 300 Palestinians are now in the north of the Strip, and need humanitarian aid that can only reach them from the south.
Food distribution in Gaza/Reuters
Recently, the IDF established three drains in the Gaza Strip. Two of them - one located on the Tancher axis and the other near the coastline of Gaza City will be used for the passage of Palestinians under security inspection. Palestinians even moved along the Tancher axis with white flags near the beginning of the war. The third, located near the border and defined by the IDF as an "extermination area" - a suspicious arrest procedure will be applied to anyone who approaches it.
The IDF coordinates the movement of the trucks on one of the three humanitarian axes. So far, the coordinated trucks have reached the drain, crossed it, and been looted by residents with clubs, armed gangs and crime families, hundreds of meters after the drains secured by the IDF.
Against the background of the pressure exerted by the Americans, it was decided in the IDF to coordinate the entry of the trucks with humanitarian aid at night, in order to reduce the chance of looting, and to prevent a mob running after the trucks. The other day, the idea was implemented in the field and all the trucks arrived at their destination in good order. But the looters quickly adapted to the changes that the IDF presented, and crowds attacked a truck that entered the strip yesterday at 03:00.
Dozens of Palestinians were killed as a result of shooting, pushing and trampling.
American pressure on Israel increased following the incident.
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Following the incident in which dozens of Palestinians were killed, American pressure on Israel increased.
Aerial footage of a mob looting aid trucks/IDF spokesman
Following the American demands to bring humanitarian aid from Israel directly to the north of the Gaza Strip, the IDF received permission to do so. The IDF is starting to work on an outline for implementation, but contrary to the publications, it will not be from the north of the Gaza Strip, now the IDF is looking for alternative and more secure areas.
According to estimates in the system security, Hamas saw the publications in the media, according to which Israel intends to introduce humanitarian aid to the northern Gaza Strip, realized that Israel was making progress in the process of doing so, and therefore initially dragged its feet regarding providing consideration for the entry of dozens of trucks daily from the north. Israel clarified its position again to the Egyptians and the Americans that it would not be accepted No decision on the issue without compensation on the subject of the abductees.
Despite the American pressure, officials in the defense system made it clear that they will not agree to the transfer of humanitarian aid from Israeli territory to the northern Gaza Strip without compensation as part of the negotiations on the abductees.
The same sources made it clear that without compensation regarding the abductees there would be no progress.
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