Senior IDF generals meet with Red Cross, USAID and UN aid groups to discuss Gaza aid

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Chief of the IDF Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman (right), and the head of COGAT, Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, meet with representatives of humanitarian aid organizations at the Southern Command HQ in Beersheba, April 10, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
Chief of the IDF Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman (right), and the head of COGAT, Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, meet with representatives of humanitarian aid organizations at the Southern Command HQ in Beersheba, April 10, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

The chief of the IDF Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, and the head of COGAT, Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, met yesterday with representatives of humanitarian aid organizations operating in Gaza, the military announces.

The IDF says the meeting with members of UN bodies, the Red Cross, USAID, IMC, and the American humanitarian coordinator was part of “increasing coordination and cooperation” between the IDF and organizations operating in Gaza.

During the meeting at the Southern Command headquarters in Beersheba, Finkelman presented an overview of the situation in Gaza, and Alian showed the aid representatives the IDF’s humanitarian activities and steps to increase the rate of aid entering the Strip, the military says.

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