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Over 165 major aid groups call for end to Gaza Humanitarian Foundation operations
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More than 165 major international charities and non-governmental organizations, including Oxfam, Save the Children, and Amnesty, call for an immediate end to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
“Palestinians in Gaza face an impossible choice: starve or risk being shot while trying desperately to reach food to feed their families,” the group says in a joint news release.
There have been repeated instances of Palestinians being shot near aid distribution sites. The IDF has said it is investigating and denies that troops are ordered to open fire on civilians.
The call by the charities and NGOs was the latest sign of trouble for the GHF — a secretive US- and Israeli-backed initiative headed by an evangelical leader who is a close ally of US President Donald Trump.
GHF started distributing aid on May 26, following a nearly three-month Israeli blockade amid a war that has already seen shortages, plunging Gaza into a humanitarian crisis.
Responding to the aid groups, GHF calls on them to join their operations.
“Instead of bickering and throwing insults from the sidelines, we would welcome other humanitarian groups to join us and feed the people in Gaza,” the statement says. “We are ready to collaborate and help them get their aid to people in need. At the end of the day, the Palestinian people need to be fed.”
The Times of Israel Community.