“The occupation wants to destroy Gaza’s entire civil infrastructure,” Abu Udai, the head of the Information Security Department of a government security agency in Gaza City, told Mondoweiss in a statement in March following the breakdown of the short-lived ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. This Israeli policy hindered the ability of the police to directly guarantee the safety of the aid convoys, so aid officials from the UN’s OCHA and the World Food Programme started working with the local community to try to protect aid convoys. Khuza’a recounted that the leader was “constantly talking to someone on the phone” during the mission, “who directed him where to go to reach the aid trucks.” Khuza’a indicated that the leader of the group was in contact with other groups “doing the same work,” and that all those groups “went to areas under the direction of the Israeli army.”
Author: Faris Giacaman and Tareq S. Hajjaj
Published at: 2025-05-06 21:45:09
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