US EditionUN humanitarian office rejects Israeli plan to shut down current aid system in Gaza
- On May 5, 2025, displaced Palestinians at Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp rushed to receive bread provided by a charity while the area remained under Israel's complete blockade imposed in early March.
- The blockade aims to pressure Hamas to release hostages and follows Israeli claims of sufficient food, though reports conflict on aid diversion.
- Israel plans to militarize aid distribution via designated hubs, a move opposed by UN agencies and NGOs as harmful and operationally flawed.
- Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council emphasized that they refuse to participate in any plan that violates core humanitarian principles, rejecting the proposed aid distribution system.
- The UN warns the proposal will deepen Gaza’s humanitarian crisis by blocking aid to vulnerable groups, escalating starvation and suffering under ongoing border closures.
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Middle East Monitor
Anadolu AjansıHumanitarian aid in Gaza must resume immediately, EU tells Israel
Humanitarian aid delivery into Gaza
UN condemns Israel’s continued total blockade of aid, warns of deepening humanitarian crisis
The UN Humanitarian Country Team on Sunday condemned Israel’s continuing border closures for a ninth consecutive week, which have prevented all humanitarian aid deliveries. The team alleged that Israel militarised all aid distribution rather facilitating it through humanitarian organisations such as the UN. The team also highlighted how the humanitarian situation has exponentially worsened over the course of the nine weeks since the ban was fir…
War in Gaza: "Most people will be deprived of aid", warn humanitarians in the face of Israel's new aid distribution system
The future humanitarian aid distribution scheme announced by the Hebrew State is denounced by the United Nations as a violation of "fundamental humanitarian principles".
Jordan Times
Macau BusinessNorwegian NGO decries Israel plan to take over Gaza aid
OSLO — An Israeli plan to take over the distribution of humanitarian aid to Gaza at hubs controlled by the military is "fundamentally against humanitarian principles", the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council [NRC] told AFP on Monday. Israel's security cabinet said there was "currently enough food" in the territory which has been under full Israeli blockade since March 2, and approved overnight the "possibility of humanitarian distribution" in …
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