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The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, criticised the method of distributing humanitarian aid in Gaza, describing it as “sadistic.” In a post on X, showing photos and videos of aid distribution to civilians in Gaza, on Tuesday, the UN rapporteur said “Speechless at this sadistic ‘aid delivery’ in Gaza if this is true. A US-Israeli crime of crimes using aid delivery to humiliate, kill and torture.” Videos show people queuing in a cramped area in Rafah, southern Gaza, waiting in the sun for hours and being subjected to searches. On Tuesday, thousands of starving Palestinians stormed aid distribution centres established by Israel in the so-called “buffer zones” in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli […]
