What is behind the controversial organization that is supported by the US and Israel to distribute help in Gaza

An organization that is supported by the US has started working in the Gaza Strip that supervises “a new model of auxiliary distribution” in Palestinian territory. However, the United Nations states that this model is ‘not impartial or neutral’.

What is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?

The assistance in Gaza will be supervised by the Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza, supported by the US and founded in February in Switzerland, according to the Mercantile Registry of Geneva.

The foundation wants to collaborate with American private and logistics companies, UG solutions and solutions for safe reachAccording to a source that is familiar with the plan. Another source said that the new foundation has already received More than 100 million dollarsBut the origin of the funds is not clear.

How does the new model work?

According to a document from the new foundation that is spread among the humanitarian agents of the area, it will initially work from four “safe distribution points”, which can each operate 300,000 people with food, water and hygiene kits. Israeli officials have indicated that these centers would be In South Gaza.

American private companies would transport Gaza Aid to the centers, where it would be distributed later by the ‘Help groups’Not for these private companies.

Why don’t the UN work with the new distribution model?

United Nations states that the distribution plan supported by the United States does not meet its principles of impartiality, neutrality and independence, which have long been maintained. ” The UN helps chef, Tom FletcherHe said that “time should not be lost” with the alternative proposal from the United States and Israel.

In an informative session for the Security Council, he explained the problems of the plan promoted by Israel: “It promotes greater displacement. It exposes thousands of people to damage … It limits help to a single part of Gaza, while other urgent needs without satisfaction the help of political and military goals.

Why has an alternative help distribution plan proposed?

At the beginning of April, Israel suggested what he described as “a structured mechanism for monitoring and introducing help” for Gaza after imposing a Total block of the strip for weeks.

The Secretary General of the UN, António GuterresHe rejected it quickly and stated that he was in the risk of “continuing to control and limit the help of the last calorie and the grain of the flower.” Since then, the pressure on Israel has increased to make the resumption of help deliveries possible.

An international hunger surveillance agency warned last week that half a million people are confronted with the hunger – a quarter of the population of the territory – and the US president, Donald Trump, acknowledged that “many people starve in Gaza.”

In the midst of the stagnation around the Israeli plan, Washington supported the newly established basis for Global Humanitarian Aid (FGH) to supervise the distribution of assistance.

Resignation of his president

However, the “new help model” did not have a good start because the executive president of the company supported by Israel and the United States, Jake WoodHe resigned in Monday morning and quoted the impossibility of implementing the planned plan with regard to “humanitarian principles” such as “humanity” or “neutrality”.

“It is clear that it is not possible to apply this plan and at the same time strictly the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence that I will not leave,” added the ex -marine and co -founder of the NGO Response to Catastrophes Team Rubicon in a statement Times of Israel.

Moreover, United Nations humanitarian staff who continues to work in Gaza cannot verify that the population in Gaza has really started receiving humanitarian help from this private organization founded by Israel and the United States, said the spokeswoman for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Juliette Touma.