‘Window to prevent famine is closing fast’: UNRWA
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has reiterated its call to increase humanitarian access to Gaza as people across the enclave grapple with malnutrition and growing starvation.
“After nearly 12 weeks of siege by Israeli authorities, only a trickle of supplies has entered Gaza,” UNRWA said in a post on X. “But what made it through falls far short of people’s massive needs. Unimpeded access for all humanitarian partners, including UNRWA, is urgently needed.”
US distances itself from Gaza food delivery group amid questions over its leadership, funding
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/gaza-food-deliveries
After a rollout trumpeted by US officials, the US- and Israeli-backed effort that claimed it would return large-scale food deliveries to Gaza was born an orphan, with questions growing over its leadership, sources of funding and ties to Israeli officials and private US security contractors.
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In a statement, GHF downplayed the episode, claimed there had been no casualties, and said it had distributed 14,550 food boxes, or 840,262 meals, according to its own calculations.
But GHF had no experience distributing food in a famine zone, and as of Wednesday, its leadership remained opaque, if not deliberately obscure. A number of executives and board members have refuted links to the group or stepped down, including Jake Wood, the ex-Marine who previously headed the group. When he resigned on Sunday, he said that it “is not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, which I will not abandon”. The group named John Acree, a former senior official at USAID, as its interim executive director.
Both a Geneva-based company and a Delaware-based company tied to the organisation are reportedly being dissolved, a GHF spokesperson told an investigative Israeli media outlet, increasing speculation over its initiators and sources of funding. The New York Times has reported that the idea for the group came from “Israeli officials in the earliest weeks of the war” as a way to undermine Hamas.
And the US state department has also distanced itself from GHF’s operations, with a spokesperson saying she could not speak to the group’s chaotic rollout or what plans could be made to extend aid to hundreds of thousands more people in Gaza who would not receive aid.
“This is not a state department effort. We don’t have a plan,” Tammy Bruce, the state department spokesperson, said during a briefing on Tuesday when asked about plans to extend aid deliveries to those in the north of the Gaza Strip. “I’m not going to speculate or to say what they should or should not do.”
“The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has an email,” Bruce said. “You can – they should be reached out to, and that’s what I’d recommend regarding plans to expand, plans to make assessments of what’s worked and what hasn’t at this point and what changes they might make. And what the goal is – clearly the goal is to reach as many people as possible.”
But when contacted by the Guardian, the group said it couldn’t provide a representative for an interview and did not immediately respond to inquiries about its current leadership, where it was registered or its links to US security contractors.
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And don't forget the victim card: “Unfortunately, there are many parties who wish to see GHF fail,” the group said.
Have you looked at satellite images of Gaza? You should
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/28/gaza-google-maps
A picture says a thousand words. And the imagery slowly seeping out of Gaza tells a story that many politicians and media figures are still doing their best to ignore or obfuscate. Satellite imagery on Google Maps showing the devastated region as of October and November 2023, drone shots of dystopian aid checkpoints, and military maps of so-called “safe zones” make it increasingly hard to argue that Israel’s military “operation” (to use a sanitizing word the media are incredibly fond of) is about eradicating Hamas. This isn’t an operation – it’s a cremation: one with the ultimate goal of eradicating not just Palestinian life in Gaza, but Palestinian identity altogether.
First, though, I want to stress that there still isn’t a lot of imagery coming out of Gaza. This is by design – and something I wish more of my colleagues in the western media were outraged about. Israel has not allowed foreign journalists into the territory since the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023, save for carefully curated tours by the Israeli army. It is systematically slaughtering Palestinian journalists on the ground. And it is placing heavy restrictions on foreign aid workers who are let into Gaza.
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Don’t just look at Google Maps – look at the maps that Israel is putting out and the changing “safe zones”. Last December, a small strip of land in south Gaza was marked on a map as a “humanitarian zone”. Last month, however, the Guardian reported that “Israel has quietly stopped designating areas of Gaza as humanitarian zones” after breaking the ceasefire. Nowhere in Gaza can be considered safe now. People have been trapped inside a killing field.
Look at the recent shocking drone shots published by Israeli media of the “aid” checkpoints set up by Israel. Look at the starving caged Palestinians surrounded by people who seem to be American military contractors and Israeli soldiers, waiting to receive “aid” via a dystopian scheme that has horrified the UN and humanitarians. This is not aid. It is occupation.
"Look at these pictures. Really look at them. If you still believe that all this is justifiable, that you are not bearing witness to crimes against humanity, then look at yourself. Ask yourself what you have become."
