The Trump government is working with the Israeli government on a plan to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza and to end the two-month blockade of Israel on food and fuel deliveries, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Auxiliary employees have evoked serious doubts about the approach.
The mechanism still has to be completed, but the general idea is to set up a handful of distribution zones that would serve each food to a few hundred thousand Palestinians, according to two Israeli officials and a UN diplomat. They spoke about the condition of anonymity to discuss the proposal, and the New York Times also assessed briefing articles that describe and confirmed their authenticity with diplomats and officials.
The Israeli army would be stationed outside the perimeters of the locations, so that care providers can distribute the food without the direct involvement of the soldiers, the officials and the briefing said.
The plan marks the first time that the Trump administration has been drawn in such detailed discussions about assistance in the Gaza Strip. Mr. Trump is considering announcing the plan in the coming days before a trip to the middle -on, said an Israeli and an American officer.
Israel and the United States say that a new system is needed to prevent Hamas from stealing food supplies and benefits from them. By breaking the influence of Hamas on the help, they hope to undermine the wider influence of the group on the Palestinian population, causing the grip on power to weaken its grip.
But the feasibility of the plan remains unclear. Although every resumption of food supplies would help to tackle the rising hunger in Gaza, the project was criticized by aid organizations. The United Nations said it had too many reservations to participate.
In a briefing capacity that is being distributed this week to partners, including UN Member States and other aid organizations, the UN office said for the coordination of humanitarian affairs that the proposal would force vulnerable citizens to walk longer distances to go to the few distribution hubs, making it more difficult to get food for those who have.
Under the current system, the UN said, there are 400 distribution points. The new ones, “this operational reach drastically reduces, which increases the outlook that large segments of the population would be left without food and other essential stocks.”
The office of the Israeli Prime Minister and the White House refused to comment. On a media briefing on Thursday, Tammy Bruce, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, had worked together on a new Gaza utility and said they “had steps away from that solution”.
Mrs Bruce said that the help would be distributed by a private foundation, but refused to work out further.
According to two Israeli officials and a person involved in the initiative, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Foundation is a new private group that was established for this purpose. A briefing paper issued in the name of the group and seen by the Times said that it would offer a “functioning humanitarian lifeline in Gaza that reduces suffering, maintaining international humanitarian law and shows a scalable model for assistance in complex environments.”
But the UN and others expressed their concern that the plan would force citizens to regularly communicate with Israeli soldiers, giving them a greater risk of detention and interrogation. And the UN briefing Paper said that the project could be a deficit to develop citizens with violence in northern Gaza; With reference to Israeli officials, the UN said that the auxiliary locations would probably be built in South Gaza, leaving citizens the north to gain access to food.
Auxiliary employees also warned that the new system citizens who live far from the distribution points can make more vulnerable to looters and thieves, because they will be forced to walk long distances with valuable food packages.
The proposal does not look as much as a plan for aid distribution as a tool for further pressure, to ensure that life is unlivable in Gaza, “said Tania Hary, executive director of Gisha, an organization of Israeli rights that argues for Palestinian citizens in Gaza.
In the absence of an end to the blockade, it is expected that the risk of famine will grow. The fuel embargo has made it almost impossible to distribute food to certain parts of Gaza, or to process bakeries, forcing many to close.
As a result, Hunger has already been spent And the food costs have risen. At the end of April, the World Food Program said that the food stocks were running out, while the UN agency that helps Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said it no longer had a flower. Israel says that there are sufficient supplies in Gaza and that it is necessary to freeze help to prevent Hamas from reaching.
According to citizens who have been interviewed by The Times, the costs of Bloem have risen 60-time since the end of February and costs canned vegetables have now been 10 times higher. The looting of remaining stocks has become widely expanded as citizens become more desperate.
Isabel Kershner And Adam Rasgon contributed reporting.
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