GHF resumes handing out aid, moves Rafah distribution site

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Displaced Palestinians carrying relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group, return from aid distribution centers in Rafah to their tents in the southern Gaza Strip on May 29, 2025. (Photo by AFP)
Displaced Palestinians carrying relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group, return from aid distribution centers in Rafah to their tents in the southern Gaza Strip on May 29, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has resumed operations near Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood, according to a GHF spokesman, after the organization shut down aid distribution for over a day to work out security issues.

An Arabic-language message to Gazans indicates that a distribution site at the so-called “Swedish village” area on Gaza’s far southern coast shut down after food was distributed there for the final time today, but a new site is now open in the Saudi neighborhood of Tel Sultan.

That distribution center is in one of the large school complexes in the center of the neighborhood, a GHF spokesperson tells The Times of Israel.

The US- and Israel-backed aid organization suspended operations yesterday after three consecutive days of reports of civilians being shot and killed while trying to reach a distribution site.

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