In a statement, the PLO’s Department of Refugee Affairs rejected the Israeli project, which envisages the use of private U.S. contractors for this purpose and selective delivery to the enclave’s population.

This proposal is unacceptable and contradicts the basic principles of humanitarian action, according to international law and UN resolutions on the subject, PLO stated.

The objective of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is to distribute aid conditionally in just a fraction of Gaza’s territory, PLO criticized.

It accused Israel of using humanitarian aid to implement a project that seeks to displace residents from the north of the Strip to the south part.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine also rejected the Israeli idea, considering it “a new colonial mechanism” and a “tool of political and security blackmail.”

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