The Palestinian corridor Alam Abdullah Al Amour was killed on Wednesday when he tried to look for food near a help distribution point for the controversial Humanitarian Foundation for Gaza (GHF), as confirmed by a source from the Ministry of Health Gazatí to Efe.
The athlete died of a shot in the chest trying to get help near the SDS3 point in Jan Yunis (southern Gaza) of the American Foundation commissioned by Israel at the end of May to distribute food, Zaher told the Waheidi, responsible for the count of deaths in the ministry. The GHF operates with four distribution points in the strip, three of them in the south and one in the center, thus ignoring more than one million people living in the north.
Its distribution system, which supplies the UN of hundreds of points, has been widely criticized by international and humanitarian organizations by forcing the Gazati to walk kilometers, open to random hours and leave the food ready in a field so that the first ones that arrive, which unleash fights among the hungry citizens and it has as a consequence that only the strongest and daring.
These points are in militarized areas by the Israeli army, which shoots the Gazati who approach for help when they consider them a threat, which according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza has caused more than 2,000 deaths.
Amour is not the first Palestinian athlete killed in Gaza in these circumstances. On August 19, the Palestinian Balcentist Mohammed Shaalan, 39, died when he tried to get food for his six children also in Jan Yunis. Two weeks earlier, Suleiman Al-Obeid, former player of the National Team, known as “El Pelé Palestino”-in tribute to the Brazilian star, for being considered the best footballer in Palestinian history-also died near Jan Yunis when he was looking for humanitarian assistance for his family.
Their deaths add to those of more than 660 athletes who have lost their lives in Gaza since the beginning of the war, on October 7, 2023, both in bombing and in the surroundings of the humanitarian aid distribution centers, where the population risks daily to get food, according to the Palestine Association of Sports Media.
Parts of the Gaza Strip are under a famine situation, as recently confirmed the CIF (Integrated Food Safety Phases), which highlighted the exponential increase in child malnutrition. More than 62,800 people have died and another 158,000 have been injured in Israeli attacks against the strip since October 2023, according to the count of the Gazati Ministry of Health, in a situation denounced as genocide by countries such as South Africa before the International Court of Justice (CIJ), a qualification that has also used international organizations and Israelis of human rights.