‘US-Israel plan to instrumentalise aid is ineffective’: MSF
Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF, has said the “disastrous start” to the food distribution coordinated by the newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation confirmed that “the US-Israel plan to instrumentalise aid is ineffective”.
“Through this dangerous and reckless approach, food is not being distributed where it’s needed most but is instead directed only to areas where Israeli forces choose to amass civilians,” Secretary-General Christopher Lockyear said in a statement.
“This means the most vulnerable – especially the elderly and people with disabilities – have virtually no chance of accessing the food they desperately need.”
It added that “the claim that this unprincipled, failing mechanism is necessary to prevent the diversion of aid is false” and that the initiative appeared to be “a cynical ploy to feign compliance with international humanitarian law”.
Controversial new Gaza aid group isn’t screening recipients — despite being established to keep supplies from Hamas
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/middleeast/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-screenings-hamas-intl
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is operating in the strip with US and Israeli approval, was established amid Israeli accusations that Hamas is stealing aid in Gaza and profiting off its sale. Humanitarian organizations have said there is no evidence tying significant diversion of aid to Hamas, and Israel has presented none publicly. But it is those claims that have prompted Israel to seek to replace traditional humanitarian organizations with GHF, which they said would prevent Hamas from obtaining the aid.
Yet GHF appears to have fewer safeguards in place to ensure aid reaches those in need than United Nations aid organizations, like UNRWA, which typically does check identification and relies on a database of registered families when distributing aid.
A journalist working with CNN who entered one distribution site and multiple Palestinians who collected aid at several sites said they faced no security or identification screenings before entering. Several eyewitnesses said criminal gangs and merchants were taking advantage of the situation, paying people to make trips into the distribution sites to collect aid boxes they could then resell.
CNN video filmed outside the aid site shows several groups of young men hauling away aid boxes on donkey carts, while hiding their faces with their shirts and asking not to be filmed.
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