The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), supported by Israel and USAhas begun to distribute help in the Palestinian enclave, but things are not going well. On Wednesday, the United Nations High Commissioner Office for Human Rights (UNHCT) reported that some 47 people were injured on Tuesday when a multitude overflowed a distribution center. While Gaza’s health spoke of at least one dead.
So far, the GHF has opened two militarized distribution centers in the south of Loop (in total there will be four): one in Tel al Sultan and another in the corridor of Moragboth in Rafah.
Tuesday, Hundreds of people jumped the fences and broke out without control into Tel al-sultthe EFE agency reported. An 18 -year -old died in the place due to the gunfire of the Israeli army.
A Palestinian loads a box with food that GHF says delivered by a foundation backed by the United States in southern Gaza. (Photo: AFP).
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The Foundation published a statement where it said that “at one point in the afternoon, the volume of people at the distribution point was such that GHF’s team had to retire”
The members of the US security company Safe Research Solutions (SRS), that managed the distribution center, also They had to leave the area and allow people to take the boxes.
While Israel’s army admitted that “he launched warning shots in the area outside the complex” To disperse the crowds.
The GHF Wednesday reported that since Tuesday he distributed 14,550 boxes with food, which can feed about 80,000 people for three and a half days.
Gaza has a population of 2.1 million peoplewhich for almost three months have been submitted by Israel to a blockade of access to essential aid such as food and medicinesin addition to fuel.
The EFE agency said that according to the latest report of food security experts, backed by the UN, About half a million Gazatis already suffers from famine.
Israel launched its war in Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack in its territory, perpetrated on October 7, 2023 and in which it murdered more than 1,200 people and another 251 were kidnapped. At least 54,084 people have died in Gaza since then for Israeli attacks.
For his part, the Chief for Palestine of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), Jonathan Whittall, described how “Ration Plan” The new system, and said it is unable to cover the needs of a hungry population.
“This new plan is a rationing based on surveillance that legitimizes a deliberate deprivation policy. And it arrives at a time when the population of Gaza, half of which they are children, faces a survival crisis, ” Whittall said in a videoconference after his departure from Gaza.
“The new distribution model cannot meet Gaza’s needs”Whittall added.
Palestinians displaced receive food packages from a foundation backed by the United States that undertakes to distribute humanitarian aid in western Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, on May 27, 2025. (AFP photo).
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Amjad al-Shawa, director of the Network of Non-Governmental Palestinian Organizations, declared that it is “a great failure against which we notice … if Israel He believes that, through this blockade and promoting hunger, which violates the humanitarian principles, this distribution method will work, it is wrong, ”he added.
For the international analyst Francisco Belaunde Matossianthe GHF is not in a position to meet the objective of feeding the entire population of Gaza. “It does not have all the capacity and experience that the UN and the other orgenizations that help in Gaza have”, He said to Commerce.
Cebe specifies that the government of the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahupromoted this new aid distribution system as a way to prevent Hamas They appropriate food and use them politically and also to obtain money through the black market.
“It seems that it is a strategy that aims more to save appearances, tell the Palestinians than Israel He does not want to kill them, but does not solve the background problems ”Belaunde said.
What is known about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?
Palestinians displaced transport food aid bags after assaulting a warehouse of the World Food Program (PMA) in Deir El-Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, on May 28, 2025. (Photo of Eyad Baba / AFP).
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Since the war began in Loop On October 7, 2023, the agencies of the UN and other organizations were responsible for the distribution of food aid in the Palestinian territory. But everything changed on March 18 of this year, when Israel broke the last truce with Hamas and blocked the entry of help. And in May, Israel announced that it would transfer the responsibility for food distribution to a group of private organizations.
One of them is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundationa non -profit organization recorded in Geneva (Switzerland) and Delaware (USA) In February of this year, and that is composed of American ex -military, private security companies and humanitarian operators.
Very little is known about her. According to EFE, The Foundation maintains a discreet profilewithout public presence or official channels that provide clear or verifiable information about their internal structure or the way in which it operates.
The GHF Plan to install four distribution centers in Gaza To deliver food, water and hygiene kits to 1.2 million people.
But the neutrality of his work has been questioned even from the inside. On Sunday, the director of the organization, Jake Woodan American ex -military and founder of the private company specialized in disaster response Team Rubiconhe resigned and warned in a statement that The group cannot stick “to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence”.
The Washington Post reported that Wood was interim replaced by John Acree, former official of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and until recently head of the GHF mission in Gaza.
For its part, The New York Times reported that The creation of the GHF was an Israeli initiative, proposed by government officials in the first weeks of the war, at the end of 2023.
As for concerns about who would be behind the financing of the GHF, the United States ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabeeit fell importance to the subject.
“I don’t know who donors are, but many of them really want to help.”he said in a recent interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “They want to contribute to relieve hunger, although for different reasons they prefer not to be identified from the beginning. I do not understand why that seems so problematic to some people”he added.
About fears for the possible misuse of the information of the Palestinians beneficiaries of help, The GHF has assured that it will not share personal information of these with the Israeli authorities.
Hamas has warned the Palestinian population that avoids the GHF distribution centersclaiming concerns about the use of Facial Recognition Technologies and the possible collection of data by Israel.
However, for Francisco Belaunde that recommendation of Hamas It would not have a great effect, then The Palestinians are in a situation of such despair that they cannot afford not to receive help.
“It doesn’t make much sense what Hamas does. How are you going to tell people, I know you’re starving, but don’t receive that food because they will pick up your information. So what is the alternative? Die by hunger?”the analyst questioned.
“It is true that Israel He is committing war crimes in Gaza, without a doubt, but If I hamás the Palestinian population, the logical thing would be to accept to leave, deliver their weapons. That is what should happen. And what a shame that there is no one who can press them, that he does not do it Iran. Really Hamas has shown that he is not interested in the fate of the population of Gaza; poor people are between two fires ”, He said.
