How the controversial AC-Israel support plan for Gaza’s assistance turned to the chaos

The masked and armed security contractor of the mound with dirt watches thousands of Palestinians who were detached in narrow sails separated by fences below.

He makes a core with his hands and the crowd answers – the fence begins to bend as they press against it.

This cheerful scene was filmed on Tuesday, the day of the opening of the Center for the Distribution of Help – a vital rescue line for Gazani who have not seen fresh stocks, enter the tape for more than two months due to Israeli blockade.

But by this afternoon the scene was one of the total chaos. Videos showed Distribution Center overcome by desperate civilians tapping over the barriers removed; People trembled as they rang sounds from rifles.

This was the disadvantage of a controversial scheme for the distribution of new aid operated by the Humanitarian Gaza Foundation (GHF), a newly created organ supported the United States and Israel.

GHF has the task of feeding desperately hungry gazan. The UN said more than two million were at risk of starvation.

The foundation, which uses armed US security contractors, aims to circumvent the UN as a major assistant to Gaza. He was convicted and boycotted by the Aid and the UN agencies. But Israel said an alternative to the existing help system was needed to stop Hamas to steal help the group denies.

To receive a photo of the first few days of this new help system, the BBC Cretify has verified dozens of images of distribution sites, interviewed humanitarian and logistics experts, analyzed data on transporting Israeli AID and official statements published by GHF and spoke with GAZANS.

GHF said it aims to feed one million gazan during its first week of operations through four protected distribution sites.

A spokesman for the foundation said on Friday, his fourth day of operations that he had spread two million meals. The BBC failed to check this figure, which would be less than a Gazan meal for four days.

GHF did not answer our inquiries about how it tracks who accepted them.

In a video captured at the northern GHF object near Nuserat on Thursday, the Palestinians can be seen running from a perimeter fence after GHF performers threw a projectile that broke out with a strong blow, flash and smoke.

GHF states that his staff “encountered a tense and potentially dangerous crowd that refuses to disperse.”

“In order to prevent escalation and to ensure the safety of civilians and staff, unchanged deterrents were discouraged, inflated smoke and warning shots in the ground,” the message said.

“These measures were effective,” she added, “and no injuries occurred.” BBC Verify cannot independently confirm this.

Later that night, GHF warned Gazans via Facebook that it would close every site where a robbery happened.

GHF is not the only help organization facing serious challenges. The night before the GHF warning, The Warehouse of the World Food Program (WFP) was lootedWhich leads to several deaths that are still being investigated.

In response to the incident, the WFP said humanitarian challenges “diverted out of control” and immediately called on “safe, unobstructed humanitarian access” to Gaza.

WFP did not answer BBC questions about how it will apply more security security measures in its warehouses.

The Palestinians seeking help characterize the GHF operation as unorganized, stating that the lack of communication has contributed to the chaotic scenes observed this week.

Things are further blurred by misinformation. BBC Verify saw at least two Facebook accounts that are thought to be official GHF accounts, sharing inaccurate information about the condition of the aid allocation centers.

A page with more than 4,000 followers publishes inaccurate information, sometimes along with AI -generated images, this help was stopped or that the robbery in GHF centers was stormy.

A GHF spokesman confirmed to the BBC to check that both Facebook accounts are fake. He also said the foundation has launched an official Facebook channel.

Transparency information online showed that the page was first created on Wednesday, the day after the start of distribution operations.

The OXFAM assistance organization and the locals of Gazan have told the BBC that residents instead rely on mouth to mouth to disseminate information when help is available.

“All people are hungry. Everyone is fighting to get what they want, how should we get something?” Mohammed Abu Hajar said mind, who failed to provide a box for help on Thursday.

Oxfam criticizes the location of GHF distribution sites by telling the BBC to check that it imposes “military control over assistance operations”.

It is a politics advisor, Bushra Khalidi, also asked how vulnerable people, like the elderly, could reach those sites that are located some distance from some populated centers.

When the UN provided help before Israel’s humanitarian blockade, Gaza had 400 distribution points in Gaza. There are currently four known sites in the current GHF distribution system.

“In general, it is intended to drastically increase the concentration of the population, with the only sources of food left in a very small number of places,” says Chris Newton, a senior analyzer at the Brussels -based cerebral trust.

“You either follow all their rules and probably survive a small radius around these objects, or it is very unlikely to survive.”

The presence of armed security and Israeli soldiers on or near the distribution sites has also worried experts who have said that this undermines the belief in help operations.

“The spread of help in this type of environment is extremely difficult. (This is) much more effective when trying to work through the people there … not at the time of the mercenary’s gun,” said Prof. Stewart Gordon at the London School of Economics.

A GHF spokesman said: “Our ability – and willingness – to act under pressure is exactly why GHF remains one of the only organizations that can still provide critical nutritional assistance to Gaza today.”

Images and videos made by eyewitnesses and Israeli military have shown that GHF boxes look limited to canned food, pasta, rice, cooking butter and some cookies and lentils.

“Humanitarian aid is not just a food box that slams humanitarian and call it humanitarian aid,” said G -Ja Khalidi.

The supplies provided to families must be accompanied by medical help, hygiene and water purification kits, said Prof. Gordon.

A 14 -page document from GHF, Viewed by BBCHe promised to distribute water and hygiene kits to the objects.

On Friday, only one of the four GHF sites spread help. It opened in less than an hour, after which GHF announced on Facebook that it had closed, as all its deliveries were “fully distributed”.

Asked by the BBC, check why only one site works and why its boxes were running out so quickly, a GHF spokesman said the delivery “would” vary day after day “.

“The good news is that we have provided two million meals in four days and will increase in the coming days and weeks,” the spokesman said.

But many of them still return from distribution sites without boxes for their families.

“I am empty -handed as God created me,” said Hani Abed outside the center near Netsar on Thursday.

“I came empty handed and left empty -handed.”

Additional reporting and checking by Emma Pengeli, Rudaba Abbas, Alex Murray, Thomas Spencer, Benedict Garman and Richard Irvin-Brown.