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Egypt Independent
23-07-2025
- Politics
- Egypt Independent
Humanitarian groups 'running out of ways to help' as hunger in Gaza spreads, Norwegian Refugee Council says
Humanitarian groups are struggling to help displaced civilians in Gaza as aid staff face hunger amid Israel's aid blockade, an NGO spokesperson told CNN. 'We're running out of ways to help, really, with this suffocating blockade imposed by Israel,' said Ahmed Bayram, media adviser from Norwegian Refugee Council. Since Israeli tanks on Monday rolled into Deir al-Balah, a part of Gaza that had not previously seen ground operations and where displaced people have fled, distributing aid became more difficult, Bayram told CNN's Rosemary Church 'Deir al-Balah… is the capital of displacement in Gaza. It's become also the capital of aid in Gaza. And now Israel has attacked that part where exactly it has been calling on people to move to,' Bayram said. NRC workers are only having one meal a day, 'so that their children don't go to bed with empty stomachs,' he added. Frustration is also mounting because 'thousands and thousands of tons of food' are being left at border crossings while aid organizations are still mostly restricted from moving within the territory, Bayram said. Israel has repeatedly claimed that it is doing this to prevent Hamas from stealing supplies. Aid agencies have denied that supplies end up in Hamas' hands. While Bayram did not specifically name the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, he said the current aid mechanism created chaos at distribution sites and called for an end to such operations. 'The first thing that has to happen is for this scheme to go,' he said. 'And the second, which is very simple, is for Israel to open the gates and allow the professionals, the real humanitarians … to do their job again,' he said. GHF has defended its model of assistance delivery and blamed aid organizations for not cooperating.
Middle East Eye
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Middle East Eye
Israel accused of using aid control to forcibly displace Palestinians
Israel's tight grip on humanitarian aid is not just reckless—it's part of a strategy to uproot Palestinians from northern Gaza, the Norwegian Refugee Council has warned. Ahmed Bayram, the organisation's spokesperson, told Al Jazeera the selective delivery of aid amounts to coercion. 'We think that providing aid to one area above another, as opposed to all areas, is a coercive measure to forcibly displace people, which Israel has been doing all [during the war] of course,' Bayram said. He criticised Israel's allies for enabling this situation, stressing that the aid blockade has gone on far too long. 'Israel's control of aid, whether in part or the whole system, is dangerous and should not be accepted, let alone allowed, by its allies for 81 days,' he added. Bayram said it was unacceptable for an occupying power to restrict the flow of basic supplies. 'Israel is an occupier in this scenario and it should not control aid provision to people, let alone life-saving aid like food and water.'
