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2025-05-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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The Israeli government has agreed to resume humanitarian aid delivery to Palestinians in Gaza
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New aid group: We’ll start Gaza operations by June; Israel to lift blockade in interim
[IsraelTimes] Organization says Israel will establish more distribution sites throughout Strip after initially only agreeing to 4 in the south; US still working to secure key backing from other NGOs
A US-backed aid organization established to manage a new model for distributing humanitarian assistance in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
announced Wednesday that it would begin operating in the enclave by the end of the month and that Israel would lift its over two-month blockade in the interim.
There was no Israeli confirmation of the latter announcement by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), but an Israeli official told The Times of Israel that one would be made in the coming days.
GHF is an organization established earlier this year in close coordination with Israel to oversee the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza in a manner that does not allow its diversion by Hamas
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amid mounting mistrust between Jerusalem and UN-backed aid groups who have been operating in the Strip to date.
GHF is backed by the Trump administration, but it’s rollout has been rocky, with many international organizations refusing to cooperate due to the strict conditions Israel is placing on its operations.
Among those restrictions was a limit on aid distribution sites to just four all located in southern Gaza. Even GHF acknowledged in a memo earlier this month that this would only be enough to at best feed 60% of Gaza’s population.
Accordingly, GHF said in its inaugural Wednesday statement that it asked and received Israeli approval for additional "Safe Distribution Sites" (SDSs) to be established throughout Gaza. The statement doesn’t say how many SDSs Israel agreed to build. As of last week, only one SDS was in the process of construction by the IDF.
GHF said it would launch operations by the end of May, but acknowledged that it would take time before it would take time before it would be fully operational. Accordingly, the foundation said Israel has agreed "to allow the flow of transitional aid into Gaza under existing mechanisms" until the construction of SDSs is complete.
GHF said it secured the concession from Israel after it sent a letter to the Israeli government that outlined the organization’s requirements for operation. The letter was sent by Jake Wood, the founder and former CEO of the Team Rubicon disaster relief group, who has agreed to come on as GHF’s executive director.
"There is no time to wait for ideal conditions. We have a responsibility to act and to do it without compromising our values," Wood said in a statement.
"Today we are one step closer to doing just that. GHF’s neutral, cooperative, and secure model will allow NGOs and humanitarian groups to operate safely, with minimized aid interdiction, resulting in maximum life-saving impact," he added.
It is unclear which aid organizations will cooperate with GHF, though. UN-backed aid organizations currently operating in Gaza issued a joint statement earlier this month saying they would not join the effort, arguing that Israel’s conditions on GHF would leave vulnerable populations without humanitarian assistance.
Humanitarian workers criticized the initial plan to have just four distribution sites in Gaza, along with other criteria only allowing one family representative chosen by Israel to pick up a roughly 40-lb box of assistance once every two weeks. They also argued that the requirement to then carry the box of aid long distances still exposed recipients to Hamas looting.
However,
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the GHF statement said it was in the "final stages" of securing enough food from aid organizations already operating in Gaza to box 300 million meals within the first 90 days of operation.
Meanwhile,
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Trump officials have been meetings in recent days with representatives from UN agencies and other international aid organizations, pressuring them to cooperate with the plan and — in at least one case — threatening to cut funding from groups that refuse.
Two organizations that have agreed to join the effort are American security firms UG Solutions and Safe Reach Solutions, who will be tasked with running logistics and security at the SDSs so that the IDF does not need to be directly involved, the Israeli official told The Times of Israel, adding that the military will only secure the perimeter of a still-being-built humanitarian zone where the SDSs will be located.
Israel has blocked aid from entering Gaza since March 2, arguing that enough assistance entered Gaza during a six-week ceasefire and that Hamas was diverting aid from civilians. Nonetheless, the IDF has warned the political echelon that the Strip is on the brink of starvation, the Israeli official told The Times of Israel.
In his letter to the Israeli government, Wood sought to address some of the concerns. He said the foundation would not share any personally identifiable information of aid recipients with Israel.
Wood also asked in the letter for the IDF to "identify and deconflict sufficient locations in northern Gaza capable of hosting GHF-operated secure distribution sites that can be made operational within thirty days."
Israel is planning to launch a massive military operation as early as Friday that aims to reoccupy and permanently hold onto the entire Strip, while squeezing the entire population into a small humanitarian zone in the southern Strip that makes up less than a quarter of the enclave’s territory.
Wood asked Israel to facilitate the flow of enough aid "using existing modalities" now until GHF’s infrastructure is fully operational, saying this is essential to "alleviate the ongoing humanitarian pressure, as well as decrease the pressure on the distribution sites during our first days of operation."
The GHF statement identified several US military veterans, former humanitarian coordinators and security contractors that it said would lead the delivery effort. However,
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a GHF memo distributed to potential donor countries and organizations included names of several individuals it claimed would sit on its board, even though they had never agreed to do so, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
The GHF statement did not all of the criticism and unanswered questions that the international community has about the group, including who would fund the work and how much involvement the US, Israel or any other government or military would have in controlling life-saving aid for Paleostinian civilians.
Last week, the UAE turned down a request to bankroll GHF, a bigwig familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel.
The rejection marked a major blow to the initiative, as Israel hoped that Emirati support would help convince other countries and international organizations to follow suit.
Emirati officials told their Israeli counterparts that the UAE would not be able to provide such financial support because the GHF initiative — as it currently stands — does not properly address the humanitarian crisis, the official said, confirming an Axios report.
The official stressed that Abu Dhabi’s position could change if the initiative is adapted to properly meet the moment. It was not immediately clear if the changes Wood said he had secured would be enough to convince the UAE to change its mind.
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