All eyes back on Gaza
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Things in Gaza have been bad for, like, forever. But they're getting so bad that the coalition of people talking about it has got to be the most far-reaching it's ever been.
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Tia Goldenberg is a correspondent for the Associated Press in Jerusalem. We asked her what's going on with aid in Gaza.
Israel and the U.S. are trying to get a new aid system off the ground. Throughout the war, you've had traditional aid groups like the U.N. and other charities providing aid to Gazans where they are in the Gaza Strip. And Israel for the entirety of the war has accused Hamas of siphoning off that aid and using it to bolster its rule in Gaza.
Hamas steals the supplies and prevents the people of Gaza from getting them. It uses these supplies to finance its terror machine, which is aimed directly at Israel and our civilians. And this we cannot accept.
Aid groups say there's been no significant diversion. But Israel's been looking for a way to get aid away from the UN and aid groups. It also obviously has lots of years-long skepticism and tensions between Israel and the UN. So what we've seen over the past couple of days is this new aid mechanism get off the ground. The linchpin of this aid mechanism is a group called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
The so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is backed by the US and Israel and uses American contractors for security.
The shadowy organization faces accusations of helping Israel fulfill its military objectives of excluding Palestinians and of failing to adhere to humanitarian principles. The American company running this new scheme says that 8,000 boxes of food have been handed out so far. But remember, the population of Gaza is 2.2 million.
Now, what we've also seen over the past couple of days is the chaos that surrounds this attempt to kind of arrest aid from the traditional aid groups delivering it.
There's video circulating online now and it shows the moment that thousands of Palestinians flooded this distribution center in Rafah. There was no order. The people rushed to take something. We didn't get anything. There was shooting and we fled.
Now, this came hours after the organization's executive director said that he was resigning even before the foundation began working.
Jake Woods' resignation comes just two months after he was asked to leave the organization. In a statement issued by the foundation, Wood made his reasoning clear. It is clear that it's not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, which I will not abandon.
The effort itself is really controversial because the UN and aid groups say they're not going to work with the GHF. They think that if they do, it'll violate their core humanitarian principles because Palestinians have to essentially be displaced. They have to move to reach these aid centers. And they don't want to be part of that. They see that aid is being politicized or even weaponized.
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