US- and Israel-backed Gaza aid group says it handed out over 18,500 food boxes in 2 hours, without incident

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

A youth carries an empty box of relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, as displaced Palestinians walk near a food distribution center in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on June 1, 2025. (AFP)
A youth carries an empty box of relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, as displaced Palestinians walk near a food distribution center in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on June 1, 2025. (AFP)

Aid distribution this morning in southern Gaza’s Rafah passed without incident, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the US- and Israel-backed body in charge of the aid distribution, says in a statement.

In an update at 7 a.m., two hours after an distribution site in Rafah opened, GHF says it handed out “21 truckloads of food this morning, totaling 18,720 boxes.”

“Operations… were once again smooth and no security incidents occurred. Aid was distributed without incident despite ongoing acute needs in the Strip,” GHF says.

In the past week, GHF says it had distributed 5.8 million meals at three distribution sites in southern and central Gaza. But its classification of meals is based on boxes of dry food products that still require cooking equipment or community kitchens, which are very limited throughout the Strip after nearly 20 months of devastating conflict.

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