The controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will formally close its operations within the besieged territory, in accordance to two Israeli sources, after suspending its work in Gaza final month at the start of the ceasefire.
“We are winding down our operations as we have succeeded in our mission of showing there’s a better way to deliver aid to Gazans,” mentioned John Acree, the group’s govt director in a press release.
The US- and Israel-backed basis operated a number of websites in southern Gaza and one web site in central Gaza the place it started distributing humanitarian aid in late-May. But the distribution effort rapidly become chaos, as determined Palestinians rushed the fenced enclosures in an try to seize the restricted meals that was accessible.
According to the United Nations, greater than 2,100 Palestinians have been killed whereas searching for aid, together with many who have been close to or en route to GHF websites.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) had plans to broaden to extra websites throughout the territory, however these plans by no means got here to fruition. GHF suspended its operations at the start of the ceasefire in mid-October because the US and the worldwide group reverted to the United Nations as the first technique of distributing humanitarian aid.
GHF says it finally delivered greater than 187 million meals to Palestinians in Gaza.
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