US confirms the Plan for Private Businesses to deliver Gaza help despite the UN alarm

The United States has confirmed that a new system for providing humanitarian aid to Gaza through Gaza through private companies is being prepared, as Israel’s blockade continues for the third month.

Israel’s US ambassador Mike Hukabi said that “distribution centers” protected by security contractors would provide food and other supplies to over a million people initially, as part of the efforts to prevent Hamas’s help.

He denied that Israel would participate in the provision or distribution of aid, but said his powers would provide perimeters to the centers.

This comes as details have emerged about the controversial plan that the UN agencies have reiterated that they will not cooperate because it seems that it is “arming” the aid.

“We will not participate,” the UN spokesman for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCA), Jens Laerk, told the BBC in Geneva, “Only in the efforts that are in accordance with our principles.”

He added: “There is no reason to introduce a system that contradicts the DNA of any fundamental humanitarian organization.”

Since the beginning of March, Israel has interrupted all supplies from reaching gas – including food, shelters, medicines and fuel – leading to a humanitarian crisis for its 2.1 million inhabitants.

One third of the Community’s Gaza Community’s kitchens – one of the last remaining living lines in the territory – has been forced to close in the last two weeks due to a lack of food and fuel, according to OCHA.

Among them were the last two World Central Kitchen field kitchens, a US -based charity that provided 133,000 meals daily before leaked ingredients on Tuesday.

The prices of the main food also jumped in the local markets, with 25 kg (55 pounds) a bag of flour, which is now sold for $ 415 (313 pounds) in Gaza – a 30 -fold increase compared to the end of February, says Amenities.

Huckabee told journalists in Jerusalem that US President Donald Trump saw help with Gaza as an emergency question and that his team was tasked with “doing everything possible to accelerate this and as quickly as possible to put humanitarian assistance in people.”

Israel and the United States accuse Hamas of diverting. “Previous actions have often been greeted with Hamas, theft of food that was intended for hungry people,” the ambassador said.

The UN and other agencies say they have strong supervisory mechanisms and that when the aid has entered the gas, they have stopped a robbery incidents. The World Health Organization says that none of his medical supplies was looted during the war.

The Trump administration is trying to build an inertia behind the new assistance initiative before the President’s trip to the wealthy Gulf countries next week, which could help to finance it.

It says that a non -governmental organization has been established and that the provision of assistance will not be under Israeli military control.

Huckabee said: “The Israelis will participate in providing the necessary security as it is an area of ​​war. But they will not participate in the distribution of food or even the introduction of food into the gas.”

The recently registered GAZA (GHF) Humanitarian Foundation seems to have been created for this purpose.

A 14 -page document from GHF, viewed by the BBC, promises to create four distribution sites, initially distributing food, water and hygiene kits to 1.2 million people – less than 60% of the population. It says that the project aims to reach all Gazani in the end.

Focused on potential donors, the document states that “the months of conflict have broken the traditional channels for gas relief.”

It continues: “GHF has been created to restore this vital life -saving line through an independent, strictly attachment who receives help directly – and only – to the needy.”

The document maintains that GHF is “guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence.”

It is alleged that his advice of directors and advisers include former CEO of World Central Kitchen, along with the US former UN World Food Program David Beysley – although his participation has not yet been confirmed.

The full details of how the help mechanism will work on Earth is not given.

The Gaza War was triggered by the attacks led by Hamas against South Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and over 250 hostages. About 59 are still held captive, up to 24 of which are thought to be alive.

Israel’s military campaign died over 52,700 people in Gaza, mainly women, children and the elderly, according to the Hamas Health Ministry.

Last Sunday, Israel’s security cabinet approved an increased military offensive against Hamas in Gaza, which may include forcible displacement of the population to the south, seizure throughout the territory indefinitely and controlling the aid.

This was quickly met with the widespread international condemnation. Many of Israel’s allies have indicated that it is bound by international law to allow the unobstructed transition of humanitarian aid.

The United Kingdom Minister for the Middle East, Hamish Sokoner, told parliament on Monday that the British government was seriously concerned that Israeli reports could lead to the 19-month war in Gaza, entering a “dangerous new phase”.

On the topic of assistance, he said: “As the UN said, it is difficult to see how, if applied, the new Israeli plan for providing help through private companies will be in line with the humanitarian principles and will meet the scale of the need. We need urgent clarity from the Israeli government on their intentions.

“We need to remember what is embedded. These humanitarian principles are important for every conflict in the world. They must be applied consistently in every zone of war.”

This week, the US Special Messenger for the Middle East, Steve Vikoff, informs members of the UN Security Council – which includes the United Kingdom – behind closed doors regarding the new plan to resume delivery.

In the meantime, Israeli media reports that the Israeli forces have already set up centers for distribution in Rafa, in the southern Gaza, in a “sterile zone” designed to be without Hamas’s presence.

According to reports, Israel expects the assistance to be allocated to representatives of shielding security from any Gazan family, who will be allowed to accept deliveries only to his relatives. They will only be placed in the hubs.

It is alleged that the Israeli defense establishment has evaluated that the average amount of aid, which should be distributed as 70 kg (154 pounds) per family per week.

The Israeli military would eventually be located outside the distribution centers, which would allow the assistants to distribute food without the soldiers directly participating, the reports said.

Israel and the United States claim that the new system will prevent Hamas from being able to steal food in its favor. By preventing its access to help and participation in the security of the convoys, they hope to reduce the influence of the group on the population of Gazan.

However, there are major questions about the feasibility of the plan. The current UN system uses about 400 points distribution of aid, while the Gaza situation is already in a crisis, with warnings that mass fasting is impending.

At a UN briefing in Geneva, assistance staff said they had performed a “careful analysis” before deciding that they could not participate in the US and Israel scheme. They said they were not officially presented with the GHF document, which is currently being distributed.

James Elder, a spokesman for the UN Unicef ​​Children’s Agency, said the plan that was exposed would lead to more children suffering from more children, not less. He noted that civilians will have to travel to militarized areas to get help, which means that the most vulnerable – children and the elderly – will struggle to get there.

He said the decision to find all points of distribution in the south seem to be intended to use help as a “bait” to replace the gas again. The UN says 90% of the population was displaced during the war, often many times.

The plan discussed with UN agencies provides for only 60 truck loads that enter each day – far less than they say is necessary to meet the growing needs, and the tenth of the number that has entered every day during the recent two -month termination of fire.

The OCA Jens Laerke said that Israel’s proposals “did not meet the minimum lane for principle humanitarian support.”

Analysts say that the current impasse for gas aid is not only an existential threat to the huge UN humanitarian operation in the Palestinian territory, but there may be consequences for its future work.

If she had to agree to a scheme that welcomes the demands of the military on one side in conflict, it could raise the perception of the neutrality and impartiality of the UN and set a dangerous precedent leading to such demands in other military areas where it works.

The UN and other help agencies also point out that they currently have tons of deliveries accumulated near Gaza’s border crossings ready to enter if Israel will allow it.

Without the end of the blockade, the risk of hunger is expected to grow.

In Jabalia, in Northern Gaza, which was already the focus of Israeli military operations against Hamas, Palestinian families told the BBC about their growing despair while waiting for food in Takia or Community Kitchen, which became a chaotic struggle.

“Every day I come here and wait with my cooking judgment to feed my children,” said Hmm Ahmed. “The San is not filling us. We have been suffering for two months. There is no flour or something. Open the borders so we can eat properly.”

She said she would not comply with Israeli efforts to force her to move south to Rafa to get help.

“We have no money to transport, we have no money to eat!” she exclaimed. “I don’t want to evacuate here, I prefer to die than to leave.”

“Takia is our last source of food,” said Mohammed, who waited five hours in queue. “My wife is pregnant and sick and I can’t take her to the hospital. How should I get to Rafa?”

Additional reporting by David Groutin in Jerusalem