Israeli-American efforts to prevent the Security Council from halting the work of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

The United States and Israel are seeking to prevent a UN Security Council resolution to suspend the operations of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), whose aid distribution centers in the Gaza Strip are described as "death traps" for the Gazan population, who are facing famine imposed by Israel.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said Friday that the US-backed aid operation in Gaza is "inherently unsafe," and gave a blunt assessment: "It's killing people."

The United Nations rejected Israel and the United States' efforts to have its agencies operate through the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation," questioning its neutrality and accusing the distribution model of militarizing aid and forcing displacement.

Guterres stressed in statements to reporters that "any operation aimed at transferring desperate civilians to military areas is inherently unsafe. It kills people."

Guterres said that UN-led humanitarian efforts are "strangling," that aid workers themselves are starving, and that Israel, as the occupying power, is required to agree to facilitate the delivery of aid into and throughout the Palestinian enclave.

He stressed that "people are being killed simply for trying to feed themselves and their families. The search for food should never be a death sentence." He added that "it is time to find the political courage to stop the ceasefire in Gaza."

The UN Security Council issued a resolution mandating that all UN agencies not cooperate with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Israel and the United States are preparing to prevent a UN Security Council resolution, scheduled for tomorrow, that would suspend and dismantle the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the Ynet website reported Sunday.

Israeli officers and soldiers reported that the Israeli army had ordered its forces to deliberately fire at Gazans near humanitarian aid distribution sites over the past month, claiming to remove or disperse them, even though it was clear that these Gazans posed no threat, according to what the newspaper Haaretz reported on Friday.

"The story is that there is a complete lack of purity of arms in Gaza," said one Israeli soldier. He described the situation as an "execution field" and reported that "where I was, between one and five people were killed every day. They shoot at them like an assault force. They don't use riot control means, they don't fire tear gas, they fire heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. They stop shooting after the positions are opened and the residents know they can approach. We communicate with them with fire."

The soldier added, "They open fire early in the morning if someone wants to stand in line hundreds of meters away, and sometimes they attack them from close range, but there is no danger to the forces. I don't know of any instance where there was any shooting from the other side. There is no enemy and no weapons." He said he calls this Israeli army crime "Operation Feseekh," referring to the salted fish.

The newspaper quoted Israeli officers as confirming that the Israeli military does not publish documentation of events at aid distribution sites, and that the military is "satisfied" that GHF's activity prevented a complete collapse of international legitimacy for the continuation of the war. They believe that the Israeli military "succeeded in turning the Gaza Strip into a backyard, especially in the wake of the war in Iran."