Published On 2/11/2025
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Yesterday, Saturday, the Gaza government denied the accusations of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) against members it said were suspected of belonging to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) of looting humanitarian aid north of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, and described them as “false and constitute a systematic media disinformation campaign.”
This came in response to Centcom’s statement in a blog post on the
In a statement, the government media office in Gaza denounced these accusations “in the strongest terms,” and said they were “a fabricated allegation aimed at distorting the image of the Palestinian police forces that secure relief convoys and accompany them until they reach the distribution warehouses.”
He pointed out that the police forces “provided more than a thousand martyrs and hundreds of wounded while performing the tasks of securing aid and international personnel, which refutes any allegations related to looting or theft.”
The statement stressed that international institutions operating in Gaza “testified that the police forces were not involved in any theft operations, but rather confirmed that they contributed to preventing such attacks despite being deliberately targeted by the occupation forces with the aim of spreading chaos.”
The Gaza government considered that Centcom’s statement “contains clear contradictions, as it talks about suspected members of Hamas without any material evidence or field reference, and without mentioning the day, date, hour, or specific location of the incident shown in the video, which we clearly question, in a clear attempt to pass misleading information to public opinion.”
The statement stressed that “all international institutions operating in Gaza have repeatedly confirmed in official statements that there are no documented cases of theft or looting of aid by the Palestinian security services. Rather, the thieves belong to outlaw gangs fueled by the occupation.”
The Central Command claimed in its same blog post that during the past week, international partners brought more than 600 trucks of aid and goods into Gaza daily, considering that what happened “undermines these efforts,” noting that about 40 countries and international organizations are working within the Joint Center for Civil-Military Coordination to facilitate the flow of aid to the Strip.
The Gaza government said in its statement that the number of organizations actually working in providing humanitarian relief does not exceed 22 organizations, “most of which suffer from prevention and restrictions by the Israeli occupation, which obstructs the entry of aid and systematically restricts its movement.”
The Gaza government wondered why the US Central Command had ignored Israel’s violations since the start of the ceasefire agreement on October 9, despite the documentation of the death of about 250 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and the injury of more than 500 others, including large numbers of women and children.
She also wondered about the absence of any condemnation for preventing the entry of aid and fuel despite the provisions of the agreement, as only 10% of the required quantities of fuel were allowed, and only 24% of the total scheduled aid.
The government called on the media, mediators, and the guarantor states of the agreement to “intervene urgently to put an end to these misleading practices, and oblige the occupation to respect the terms of the ceasefire agreement and implement its obligations in full.”
Israeli violations
The Gaza government said in a previous statement yesterday, Saturday, that 3,203 aid and commercial trucks entered the Strip from the entry into force of the ceasefire agreement with Israel on the tenth of last October until the end of the same month.
On the other hand, 13,200 trucks were supposed to enter the Gaza Strip during the same period, extending over 22 days, at a rate of 600 trucks per day, according to what was included in the ceasefire agreement.
The statement indicated that the commercial trucks that entered the sector were divided into 293 food trucks, 220 merchandise trucks, 82 clothing trucks, 23 household appliances trucks, 10 various equipment trucks, 6 fuel trucks, 4 trucks designated for the health sector, and one truck loaded with vehicle spare parts.
According to the statement, the average daily entry of trucks (aid and commercial) was only about 145 trucks, out of 600 trucks that are supposed to enter daily according to the agreement, including 50 fuel and fuel trucks, which means that Israel’s commitment rate does not exceed 24% of the quantities that are supposed to enter.
The scarce humanitarian aid arriving in the Gaza Strip under the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel did not succeed in ending the famine or beginning to treat its effects, especially since this is accompanied by a sharp deterioration in the economic conditions of most Palestinians, which prevents them from being able to purchase food supplies.
The agreement ended two years of the genocidal war that Israel began on October 7, 2023, with American support, and left 68,858 Palestinian martyrs and more than 170,000 wounded.