GENEVA — The U.N. human rights office said on Friday that it had recorded at least 798 killings both at aid points run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and near humanitarian convoys run by other relief groups, including the U.N.
The GHF uses private U.S. security and logistics companies to get supplies into Gaza, largely bypassing a U.N.-led system that Israel says had let militants divert aid.
The United Nations has called the plan "inherently unsafe" and a violation of humanitarian impartiality rules.
"Up until July 7, we've recorded now 798 killings, including 615 in the vicinity of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, and 183 presumably on the route of aid convoys," OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva.
The GHF began distributing food packages in Gaza at the end of May and has repeatedly denied that incidents had occurred at its sites.
Reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin, Editing by Miranda Murray
recorded at least 798 killings both at aid points run by the
U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and
near humanitarian convoys run by other relief groups, including
the U.N.
The GHF uses private U.S. security and logistics
companies to get supplies into Gaza, largely bypassing a
U.N.-led system that Israel says had let militants divert aid.
The United Nations has called the plan "inherently
unsafe" and a violation of humanitarian impartiality rules.
"Up until July 7, we've recorded now 798
killings, including 615 in the vicinity of the Gaza Humanitarian
Foundation sites, and 183 presumably on the route of aid
convoys," OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in
Geneva.
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