Demonstrators have been seen breaking through police lines and running in front of the food convoys, with some even playing techno music and holding dance parties at the border gate.
They say aid should be stopped until all the 134 Israeli hostages held by Hamas are free.
Several protesters claim the aid trucks don’t reach civilians and go straight to Hamas, while others suggest the boxes are full of weapons instead of food.
No evidence has been presented to support either of these theories.
Israel’s war in Gaza has left 30,000 Palestinians dead and a quarter of the enclave’s 2.3 million population starving, according to UN reports.
Hunger is most acute in northern Gaza, which has been isolated by Israeli forces and regularly cut off from food supplies.
The Health Ministry said at least 20 people have died from malnutrition and dehydration at Kamal Adwan and Shifa hospitals so far, most of them children.
Particularly vulnerable children are also beginning to succumb to starvation in the south, where access to aid is more frequent.
President Joe Biden, who has been heavily criticised for financing the Israeli military, says the US will build a temporary port to bring aid in.
According to a survey by the Viterbi Family Center for Public Opinion and Policy Research at the Israel Democracy Institute, 68% of Jewish Israelis opposed sending aid to Gaza under any circumstances.
Several videos posted on social media and filmed by international news crews show Israeli protesters of all ages, including children, at the borders trying to stop the aid.
Some wave Israeli flags or hold protest placards, with a few at the dance parties waving purple flags with Nova written on them, in reference to the music festival where Hamas killed dozens on October 7.
One woman told CNN she will keep attempting to obstruct help up until Hamas launches the captives.
When the press reporter stated there was a humanitarian crisis in Gaza she responded: ‘You know, even if there is a humanitarian crisis — and there’ s not– even if there is, it’s my right and task to focus on [Israelis] over any Gazan infants.’
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Another lady, called Debbie Sharon, stated the help was going directly to Hamas.
‘I’ m informing you here and now, if we understood it’s getting to the kids of Gaza, we will do it. This does not get to their doorstep,’ she included.
‘This arrives into the tunnels of Hamas that are fighting us and holding our hostages.’
One protester stated there was no other way to inspect the trucks and thinks they have lots of weapons.
‘Bags of rice that are meant to go to their children are filled with bullets,’ she stated.
Meanwhile 22- year-old Yosef de Bresser, 22, has actually been assisting to arrange efforts to obstruct Gaza help at the Kerem Shalom border.
‘War is war,’ he informed the Washington Post, and stated the United States eliminated countless civilians battle Japan in World War II.
‘Who gives his enemy aid?’
Another boy, Ben Shabat declared– without evidence– that Gazans utilize food materials to make weapons.
‘When you mix flour with potassium nitrate you get an explosive for a warhead. Every pound of sugar and flour that goes into Gaza from Israel, we will get it back by the way of a rocket that will kill our children,’ he stated.
He likewise stated he’s assisting IDF starve Hamas so they will have a hard time to eliminate.
Meanwhile, Tahel Attar, 17 stated she ‘d heard that ‘Gazan people were being given stuff that they don’ t truly, truly require. Like strawberries’.
‘I don’ t believe individuals there are sobbing for strawberries,’ she stated.
A report from Refugees International on Thursday cautioned conditions within Gaza are ‘apocalyptic’.
‘After five months of war, Palestinians are struggling to find adequate food, water, shelter, and basic medicine. Famine-level hunger is already widespread and worsening,’ it included.
The report declared Israel ‘consistently and groundlessly impeded aid operations within Gaza, blocked legitimate relief operations and resisted implementing measures that would genuinely enhance the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza’.
‘[Israel has] set up unneeded obstacles, made complex logistical procedures, and an unforeseeable vetting system, rendering the evaluation routine extremely troublesome with layers of administration and evaluation and minimal working hours.’
A UN professional stated on Thursday that Israel was damaging Gaza’s food system as part of a more comprehensive ‘starvation campaign’ in its war versus Hamas militants.
‘The images of starvation in Gaza are unbearable and you are doing nothing,’ Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, stated in a speech to the UN Human Rights Council.
The United States and other nations have actually made a variety of air help drops just recently, however they supply far lower quantities of help than trucks and can be unsafe.
Yesterday the Health Ministry and an eye witness stated 5 individuals were eliminated by an air help drop when a minimum of one the parachutes stopped working to open, CBS News reported.
It’s uncertain which nation made the airdrop.
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