Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it distributed 18 trucks of aid today after opening third site

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it opened up a third aid distribution site today in the Strip.

The third site is located in the central Gaza’s Bureij, adjacent to the IDF’s Netzarim corridor. It joins two sites that began operating earlier this week in Rafah. An additional site in Rafah is slated to open in the coming days. GHF has faced criticism due to the lack of access for tens of thousands of residents still located in north Gaza, but it says that it plans to open additional sites — including in the northern Strip — in the coming weeks.

GHF says it distributed 17,280 boxes of aid at all three of its sites today.

Each box is meant to provide three meals a deal, for roughly four days, for a family of roughly five people.

The total number of trucks unloaded at the three GHF sites today was just 18, though. The UN has said 600 trucks of aid need to be distributed each day in order to properly feed the Strip’s roughly two million people.

After denying that Palestinians at its sites have been shot at, a GHF spokesperson confirms that its American security contractors operating its Bureij distribution center fired smoke bombs and warning shots at a crowd that wouldn’t disperse. There were no injuries. Footage posted on social media of the incident showed dozens of civilians fleeing the scene as shots and stun grenades were apparently fired in their direction.