Anat Peled
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first heard Jan 2025
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And it's going to be an early test to see how Hamas will respond to what it sees as a rival entity seeking to govern the enclave.
The war is grinding on, and negotiations for a ceasefire for hostage exchange are officially ongoing, but we haven't seen any breakthrough yet.
— So you have Gazans who are very hungry and desperate, and all of them trying to make their way to these centers and get food, get boxes of food. — And what we've seen, you know, on the first day, the very first day of the launch, we saw large crowds break into one of the, you know, distribution sites. And there was looting, and there was chaos, and the American staff had to retreat.
And we know that the Israeli military fired warning shots.
The situation is pretty bad. A lot of people are living in tents. There's very little food. So we're seeing kind of a state of chaos as Hamas kind of also loses some sort of grip on the strip or, you know, it's weakened. There's just kind of a breakdown.
The aid and the food and all of this is at the center of the debate about this conflict. I mean, we had statements from Israeli officials at the start of this war, after October 7th, 2023, when, you know, Israel was in shock and, you know, it was a very bloody day. And basically people were making statements like no aid should enter Gaza and American officials have tried to push for more aid.
But it's been a constant back and forth.
What the UN would do is it has trucks of aid and it would basically get it in the Strip and then it would get it to around 400 distribution sites, so all across the Strip, and it would get to Gazans. The problem is that Israel has said that a lot of that aid was stolen by Hamas and that that's a big issue because it's trying to destroy Hamas.
Basically, the UN was saying not enough trucks are going in. They would count it by trucks. The aim was like hundreds. But there was just a bit of back and forth also between the UN and Israel, kind of both sides kind of accusing each other of being responsible for not enough aid going in.
During that time, aid was surging. We had hundreds of trucks a day. And that was a time when, you know, there wasn't fighting. And it was, Gazans started to feel like maybe things were gonna, you know, were looking up. And they started to get food that they hadn't seen in the past. You know, things like fruit, meat, you know, things like that are never, never really common.
There's a lot of question marks about this new aid plan. So we know it's basically an Israeli American plan. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is a private entity that's kind of overseeing this whole aid operation. So it's basically registered in the U.S. currently, and they are basically leading the whole effort. But they've also had some crises going into this.
There was the resignation of Jake Wood, who was the chief of the foundation. And there's a lot of questions about the funding. We don't know where the funding comes from. That's the bottom line. We've had some Israeli politicians, lawmakers from the opposition, suggest that Israel is funding some of this. They have not provided proof of that.
So there's a lot of question marks about who is funding this and why. There's also the question of how involved Israel is, which seems, you know, based on my conversations with people familiar and former officials, it seems that Israel did have a big role in this.
Yeah, so this is radically different. So what we have is GHF has set up right now four, it has four planned centers. So you have three in Rafah in southern Gaza on an Israeli constructed corridor called Morag. And then you have another one on an Israeli constructed corridor called Nitzarim, which is more in the center of Gaza.
So first of all, we don't have sites in the north at the moment, which is an issue because before there were many possibilities to go get aid. But now it's trickier, especially if you can't move or something like that.
And they are working with GHF and they are basically tasked with delivering the aid. So what we see is we've also seen this in videos and we know this from our reporting. It's a lot of former American vets, including from Afghanistan and Iraq. And they are also on the ground in Gaza helping secure the aid site itself.
It is unusual. We're not quite sure why they were selected. They're pretty new in the game. They did one thing, which, you know, the Israeli government sees as kind of a proof of concept. But they were actually securing a corridor called Netsarim in the center of Gaza, which kind of bisects the strip, the north and the south. And they were securing it during the latest ceasefire.
So that is their experience. But we don't know much else about them.
Israeli troops are stationed nearby the actual aid distribution center. They don't go in. The Americans are there, but they're nearby. And that is a concern because that didn't happen under the UN system. There were no kind of, you know, Israeli troops nearby.
Not very well. I would say that the system is characterized right now by violence and chaos and disorder.
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