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🏥 From Aid to Atrocity: How Gaza’s Lifeline Was Turned into a Trap

 


✍️ By Malik Mukhtar
📍 www.ainnbeen.blogspot.com
đź“… June 30, 2025


🔹 The Beginning: UNRWA’s Lifeline to Gaza

In Gaza’s early struggles under blockade and bombardment—starting October 7, 2023—UNRWA was Gaza’s last hope. With deep-rooted networks and Palestinian staff, it delivered food, water, and medicine despite the destruction.

But in January 2024, Israel accused UNRWA staff of aiding Hamas—without evidence—prompting a cascade of funding suspensions. By mid‑2024, Israel blocked UNRWA convoys, systematically dismantling Gaza’s neutral aid framework.


🔹 GHF Emerges: The U.S.–Israeli Counterpart

In February 2025, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) launched “secure distribution zones” in Rafah, Khan Younis, and the Netzarim Corridor—backed by the U.S. and Israel. Jake Wood, a U.S. Marine veteran, became its founding director.

But marvels soon turned to dread. Wood resigned on May 25, 2025, telling the New York Times:

“It is impossible to implement this plan while strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence.”


🔹 The Massacre Timeline

Between May 27 and June 29, more than 549 Palestinians were killed and 4,000+ injured near GHF aid sites—according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Reuters, Haaretz, and Wikipedia.

🕯️ Detailed Timeline of Massacres:

  • May 27 (Rafah): 3 killed, 46 injured
  • May 28: 10 killed, 62 injured
  • May 31: 3 killed en route
  • June 1: 32 killed, 250 wounded
  • June 2: At least 75 killed, 400+ injured
  • June 3: 27 killed in Rafah
  • June 4: Aid sites closed after 50+ deaths over 3 days
  • June 6: 8 killed, 61 injured near Rafah
  • June 7: 6 killed near Rafah centre
  • June 8: 13+ killed, 150+ injured at two sites
  • June 11: Over 60 killed waiting for food
  • June 12: 16 killed by drone strikes
  • June 14: At least 79 killed, mostly at Netzarim site
  • June 15: 23 killed near U.S.–backed site
  • June 16–17: 59 killed, 221+ injured by tank shelling
  • June 18: 11 killed, ~100 wounded in Nuseirat
  • June 19: 21 killed (15 at Netzarim, 6 near Khan Younis)
  • June 24: 44 killed at Rafah and Nuseirat
  • June 26: 6 killed
  • June 27: 10 killed
  • June 28: 3 killed
  • June 29: 4 killed approaching Rafah site

🔹 Humanitarian Camouflage & Command Responsibility

This is not accidental tragedy—it’s systematic, lethal control:

  • UN Human Rights, MSF, and UN Secretary-General call GHF sites “death zones”
  • UNRWA's Philippe Lazzarini calls GHF a “death trap”
  • Wikipedia documents GHF complicity, with reports of 9 disappeared
  • UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese: "This is not aid—it is humanitarian camouflage for a siege."
  • MĂ©decins Sans Frontières (MSF): Described GHF’s system as "slaughter masquerading as relief."
  • UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres: Called the sites “death zones.”
  • Even Haaretz reported that IDF commanders were ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians if they approached aid trucks in an unapproved manner—confirming that these were not accidents, but part of an intentional policy of lethal deterrence.

🔹 New Leadership, Continued Bloodshed

After Wood’s resignation, David Barak took over GHF. Despite promises of “coordination with the IDF,” the killings escalated.

And the hunger deepened.

“Even if food is unblocked now, it won’t be enough. They need clinical feeding—and there are no hospitals.”
Jake Wood


🔚 Conclusion: Neutrality Is Complicity

From UNRWA’s destruction to GHF's deadly zones—this is genocide by starvation, disguised as aid.

🛑 To the neutral: Silence today is complicity in tomorrow's history.
📢 You’re not powerless—share, speak, support.
🕊️ The time to act was yesterday. Many have already lost their tomorrow.

History—and your conscience—are watching.
Witness. Resist. Humanize.


đź”— More analysis and updates: ainnbeen.blogspot.com
✍️ By Malik Mukhtar


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