A new aid system in Gaza has started operations, a U.S.-backed group says
- The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing food aid in Gaza on Monday at secure locations despite Hamas threats against its operations.
- The new aid system followed a nearly three-month Israeli blockade aimed at pressuring Hamas, with Hamas calling on residents not to cooperate with it.
- GHF appointed John Acree as interim executive director after founder Jake Wood resigned, citing inability to uphold humanitarian principles in the program.
- GHF reported that Hamas is opposing the new approach to aid distribution and is making efforts to undermine it, while additional aid trucks are expected to arrive shortly.
- The operation aims to reach about one million Palestinians amid growing hunger, but the UN and aid groups oppose the system due to concerns over politicization and aid restrictions.
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Five major Swedish aid organizations are appealing to the government to resume support for the UN Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa. Only Sweden and the US are still stopping contributions. “It is a wrong choice, and the price that the civilian population in Gaza is paying is very high,” says Ylva Jonsson Strömberg, Secretary General of Doctors Without Borders.
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Gaza (Quds News Network)- The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has renewed its call to increase humanitarian access to Gaza, as people across the enclave face worsening starvation. Israel is allowing only limited aid to enter, an amount the UN has described as “a drop in the ocean.” “After nearly 12 weeks of siege by Israeli authorities, only a trickle of supplies has entered Gaza,” UNRWA said in a post on X. “But what made it through …
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