The crowds of the storm of US -backed Group Center for Distribution of Help

Thousands of Palestinians have revised a Gaza help site created by a controversial group supported by the US and Israel a day after it started working there.

Videos showed crowds that go on torn fences and earthly berms in the Gaza Humanities Foundation (GHF) in the southern city of Rafa.

The group said that at one point his team fell back because the numbers seeking help were so big. The Israeli military said troops were firing warning shots nearby.

GHF, who uses armed security contractors, aims to circumvent the UN as a major Gaza aid supplier, where experts have warned an onset of starvation after an 11-week Israeli blockade that has recently been relieved.

The UN said Rafa videos were “heartbreaking” and that there is a detailed plan ready to receive enough help for the “desperate population” of 2.1 million.

The UN and many help groups have refused to cooperate with GHF plans, which they believe are contrary to humanitarian principles and seem to be “arms assistance”.

They have warned that the system will virtually exclude people with mobility problems, force more displacement, expose thousands of people to harm, provide conditional assistance for political and military purposes, and to set an unacceptable precedent to provide help around the world.

Israel said an alternative to the current help system was needed to stop stealing the help of Hamas, which the group denies.

GHF announced on Monday that it “started operations in Gaza” and began delivering the Palestinians to its distribution places.

On Tuesday afternoon, the Israeli military confirmed two places located in the Tal Al -Sultan neighborhood of Rafa and the Morag Corridor – a war zone to the east -west that separates the city from the rest of the gas – began to distribute food to families.

At about the same time, the Israeli and Palestinian media shared photos showing long queues of Palestinians on the Tal Al-Sultan site.

But just over an hour later, they began to post videos showing thousands of men, women and children who flow into the compound. In one clip, some people see each other to run and fall as they seem to be launching rifles.

Witnesses described a scene of chaos while people seized food parcels and other help from the site. They also said that the Israeli troops nearby had opened fire.

“The situation was extremely difficult. They only allowed 50 people to cross at one time,” a man told the BBC Arabic radio program in the Middle East. “In the end, chaos erupted – people climbed over the gates, attacked others and took the whole (help).”

“It was a humiliating experience,” he added. “We suffered a lot of hunger. We’re just looking for some sugar to make a cup of tea and a piece of bread to eat.”

A woman said hunger and poverty “conquered everyone”.

“People are exhausted – ready to do anything, even risk their lives – just to find food and feed their children.”

A GHF statement acknowledged that “the needs of the land are great” and it is said that it has so far distributed about 8,000 grocery boxes – equivalent to 462,000 meals – by partnership with local non -governmental organizations.

However, it says that the Palestinians have experienced a few hours of delaying access to one site, “due to blockades imposed by Hamas,” without providing evidence.

“At one point in the late afternoon, the volume of people in SBS (Secure Distribution Site) was such that the GHF team fell back to allow a small number of Gazani to accept help safely and to be distracted. This was done in accordance with the GHF protocol to avoid victims.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said his troops fired “warning shots in the area outside the Union”.

“Control over the situation has been established, food distribution operations are expected to continue according to plan, and the safety of IDF troops has not been compromised,” it said.

Hamas’s government office, run by Gaza, said Israel’s efforts to disseminate help “had not failed miserable”. He also denied that Hamas had tried to stop civilians from reaching GHF sites.

At a press conference in New York, UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said: “We are watching the video coming out of gas around one of the distribution points created by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. And to be honest, these videos, these images, are heartbreaking.”

“We and our partners have a detailed, fundamental, operationally healthy plan, supported by Member States, to receive help for a desperate population. We continue to emphasize that the significant scales of humanitarian operations are essential to overcoming the hunger and satisfying the needs of all civilians,” he added. “

The US Department of State spokesman called the UN criticism “the height of hypocrisy”.

“This is a pity because the problem here is Gaza’s help, and then suddenly it goes into complaints about style or the nature of who does it,” Tammy Bruce told reporters.

Created by the BBC for GHF’s ​​independence and neutrality, Bruce has admitted that there is some “disagreements” about how the distribution of food and assistance in the region is “applied”.

But she added: “I think most of us would agree that this is good news … The real story here is that there is food help.”

Initially, GHF plans to create four distribution sites in southern and central gas, where Palestinians will be able to collect food and other help for their families. It says it aims to feed a million people – just under half of the population – by the end of this week.

The sites are intended to be secured by US performers, with Israeli troops patrolling the perimers. In order to have access to them, the Palestinians are expected to have to undergo identity checks and screening to participate in Hamas.

The UN and other help agencies insist that they will not cooperate with any scheme that does not comply with the basic humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality.

On Sunday night, Jake Wood resigned as CEO of GHF, saying that the group’s system could not work in a way that would be able to implement these principles.

The GHF board has rejected criticism and accused “those who take advantage of the status quo” for being more focused on “tearing this than on receiving help.”

The group also claims on Monday that Hamas had threatened the death of NGOs supporting his distribution sites and tried to block civilians to have access to assistance.

Hamas publicly warned the Palestinians not to cooperate with the GHF system.

Israel imposed a total blockade of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies of Gaza on March 2 and resumed its military offensive two weeks later, ending a two-month termination of fire with Hamas. It says the steps aim to put pressure on the armed group to release the 58 hostages who are still held in gas, up to 23 of which are thought to be alive.

On May 19, the Israeli military began an extended offensive, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would see that the troops “take control of all regions” of Gaza. The plan is reported to include a completely clearing north of civilians and forcibly displaces them south.

Netanyahu also said that Israel would temporarily alleviate the blockade and allow “basic” amount of food in gas to prevent hunger after pressure from allies in the United States.

Since then, the Israeli authorities have claimed to have authorized at least 665 truck loads from humanitarian aid, including flour, baby food and medical supplies, in Gaza.

However, more than 400 loads were on the part of Gazan at the intersection of Kerem Shalom in anticipation of distribution from the UN to Tuesday night, according to the Israeli military body responsible for the coordination of the aid when. He called on the UN to “do his job”.

There was no immediate comment from the UN, but last week it is said that his teams face significant challenges in collecting supplies due to insecurity, the risk of looting and problems with coordination with Israeli forces.

The head of the UN World Food Program warned on Sunday that the aid is only a “fall in the bucket” of what is necessary in the territory to turn the catastrophic levels of starvation, against the backdrop of significant shortage of basic foods and an increase in prices.

Half a million people are hungry in the coming months, according to the supporting phase of the food security phase (IPC).

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were hostage.

Since then, at least 54 056 people have been killed in Gaza, including 3,901 in the last 10 weeks, according to the health ministry in the territory.