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SvennoJ on 20 May 2025
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World Central Kitchen slams US-Israeli plan for Gaza aid

Chef Jose Andres, the founder of the World Central Kitchen (WCK), says Israel’s plans to set up aid distribution hubs in Israeli-controlled areas in southern Gaza will take weeks to get off the ground and “will leave Palestinians hungry”.

Andres’s comment came in response to a report that the Israeli government plans to let aid into Gaza through the existing UN system for about a week, and then let the US-Israeli backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation take over the distribution of supplies.

“The new Humanitarian foundation members should be ashamed of themselves,” Andres said in a post on X. “We already have a system in place to feed all Palestinians with the help of Palestinians….creating jobs and systems in the process…!”

As we’ve been reporting, the UN says it won’t work with the GHF because their distribution plan is not impartial, neutral or independent.

Bombs ‘only thing entering Gaza right now’, says UNRWA

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says “the Gaza Strip is likely facing its worst humanitarian crisis since October 2023.”

“Intensified Israeli bombardments from air, land, and sea have resulted in hundreds of casualties and mass displacement,” UNRWA said in a post on X.

“For 11 weeks, Israeli authorities have deliberately blocked all supplies to Gaza. The only thing entering Gaza right now are bombs. Nowhere is safe.”