Kojat did not respond to the Israeli army’s contact with the Palestinians and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for requests to comment on Wood’s resignation and the announced GHF plan to launch Monday operations on Monday.
In a separate statement, the GHF board of directors said it “is disappointed” because of Wood’s departure, but he will move forward with his plan and start distributing aid in Gaza starting on Monday.
“Our trucks are loaded and ready to go,” he added, according to Reuters.
Wood’s resignation came with Israel continuing to allow only calm One of the aids is needed in Gaza while also pressing its last military attack, which killed hundreds, including children, within weeks.
Before renewed attacks, the Israeli siege on food and medicine was suspended vital supplies to enter for more than two months, and raised a new humanitarian crisis in the pocket that was characterized by warnings of widespread hunger.
The supported Israeli plan
Questions revolve around the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Since its launch.
Nate Mock, former CEO of World Central Kitchen who had previously been reported as a member of the Board of Directors, told NBC News that he had not participated in this initiative.
Netanyahu said last week that, according to the plan, aid will be delivered to Palestinian civilians in the designated “safe areas”, where it is expected that the families displaced already will be transferred again to southern Gaza “for their own safety.”
Relief groups have warned that in addition to undermining a long, long -term humanitarian framework in the pocket, the plan will again force the wide displacement in Gaza, with a focus on distribution in areas that may not be accessible to all. The groups have warned that civilians, who have already exhausted and hungry after 18 months of war, were displacement and hunger, who do not move south would be more likely to the risk of Israel’s military attack.
Netanyahu said that efforts were aimed at allowing civilians to receive humanitarian aid “without Hamas’s intervention”, with a repeated assertion that the armed group was converting aid. The humanitarian groups working in Gaza denied that the militant group was mocking supplies.
Joseph Bellevo, CEO of Medglobal, an Illinois -based non -profit organization that provides medical assistance in Gaza, accused Israel using a “non -existent” problem to justify its decision to reform the distribution of aid in Gaza in what he described as an attempt to control the pocket.
Aid reform comes after Israel has banned The United Nations Relief and Business Agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, from working in Gaza, claims that Hamas members have infiltrated the agency and that a number of employees have participated in the October 7 attacks 2023.
Last August, an independent investigation by the United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres found that nine employees working in UNRWA, which had thousands of workers in the pocket, had participated in the attacks.
The ban, which came into effect in January, sparked a warning between relief groups, with UNRWA’s general manager, Philip Lazarini, warned of the “catastrophic” consequences.
The Biden administration stopped financing to UNRWA last year, a measure that supported the Trump administration.
Rare help
Humanitarian groups have condemned Israel to rid them only a small amount of aid in Gaza a week since the siege was lifted.
From Monday morning on Monday, it entered a little less than 500 trucks carrying aid and goods that entered the pocket a week since Israel announced on May 18 that it lifted its blockade, according to a result of the data that Cogat is shared.
This is almost the same number of trucks that entered Gaza daily before the war began, according to help groups.
Nearly 54,000 Palestinians, including thousands of children, have been killed in Gaza since the war began, according to the Ministry of Health in the pocket, which has been run by Hamas since 2007.
Israel launched its attack after terrorist attacks worth October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and about 250 hostages were taken in Gaza, where it remains less than 60 years old, both dead.
