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IDF Building Two More GHF Aid Sites in Southern Gaza
(Times of Israel) Lazar Berman - In Rafah, miles inside of Gaza, there are no sounds of war. Almost no buildings are left standing. The city is now a sandy wasteland of broken concrete, twisted metal, and packs of feral dogs. Civilian sedans and pickup trucks drive along the Philadelphi Corridor on the border with Egypt. Israel is building two new aid distribution sites, which will be handed over to the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the coming days. They are designed to be "as safe as possible, as short of a distance as possible, for the trucks, and for the people coming in," said Lt.-Col. Nadav Shoshani. The first row of buildings in the al-Mawasi humanitarian area - to which Israel has told civilians in Gaza City to evacuate - are visible from both sites. The flow of foot traffic through the sites will be clearer and smoother, and changes in the placement and height of sand berms and concrete walls will protect American security guards. To avoid instances in which civilians veered off the defined routes, there are new fences and concrete walls "making it very clear where the routes are, where it's safe to go, where you're supposed to go, and making sure that people don't approach troops." "The IDF is not in the sites," Shoshani stressed. "No one has been shot in the sites by the IDF. The IDF is fighting terrorists around these sites....The IDF is not targeting anyone picking up food." The GHF says it has distributed over 161 million meals since May, and almost 1.2 million meals on Wednesday alone.