The United States says that Israel will not participate in the distribution of Gaza assistance

The Ambassador of Washington in Israel said on Friday before President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East, but it gave a few details: The US -backed mechanism to distribute aid in Gaza must enter into force soon.

Gaza residents are facing a growing humanitarian crisis with Israel, and a siege of a period of months of relief supplies to a small Palestinian pocket in the third year of its war against the Hamas armed group.

Ambassador Mike Hackabi said that many partners have already committed to participating in the arrangement of aid, but they refused to designate them, saying that the details will be released in the coming days.

“There was a good initial response,” said the former Republican governor of journalists at the embassy in Jerusalem.

“There are non -profit organizations that will be part of the leadership,” he said, adding that organizations and other governments will also need to participate, even if they are not Israel.

A new group backed by the United States called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has developed a aid distribution plan similar to Israel’s demands, according to the documents obtained by the Associated Press. The group consists of US security contractors, former government officials, former military officials and humanitarian officials.

It was not immediately clear whether this was the plan that HUCKABE was referring to. But relief workers said that creating the group does not do much to alleviate their fears.

The great official base in Hamas said that the plan was close to the “Israeli vision of military aid” and said it would fail, at the same time, the local parties warn that “to become tools in the Zionist occupation plans.”

Trump, who is looking for a prominent deal that would see Israel and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia prove diplomatic relations, will visit the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates next week.

The expectation was based on a new assistance plan for Gaza, which destroyed 19 months from an Israeli military campaign against Hamas, which destroyed a lot of infrastructure and explained most of its 2.3 million residents several times.

“This will not be perfect, especially in the early days,” Hakapi said. “It is a logistical challenge to make this work.”

A imminent famine facing the population: the United Nations

European leaders and relief groups criticized a plan by Israel to private companies to take over humanitarian distributions and expand their military campaign in the pocket.

Israel accused the agencies, including the United Nations, to allow aid to fall in the hands of Hamas, which it said seized supplies allocated to civilians, giving them to its own forces, or selling them to raise funds – which Hamas denied.

Israel has prevented aid from entering Gaza since the ceasefire was broken with Hamas in March, which sparked warnings to the United Nations of the imminent starvation facing its inhabitants.

Islam, Hajjaj, says that her six -year -old daughter has suffered from severe malnutrition as a result of the siege. Survivors of tens of thousands of children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, who show signs of malnutrition.

Hajjaj said that her daughter weighs about 22 pounds before the war. Now, she weighs 15 lbs, and a lack of weight is greatly for her age.

“It has become a human bone structure,” Hajaj said to CBC News on Friday.

“The war has made it worse and worse. It goes to sleep and wakes up the wish of milk.”

Critical aid plans

Trump had disturbed a major advertisement before the trip. It was not clear whether this was what Hakapi announced on Friday.

“The Israelis will participate in providing the necessary military security because it is a war zone, but it will not participate in the distribution of food or even bring food to Gaza,” Hakabi told a news conference.

In response to a question about whether the aid supply depends on the ceasefire, Hakapi said: “Humanitarian aid will not depend on anything other than our ability to enter food in Gaza.”

On Friday, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) criticized emerging plans to take over the distribution of aid in Gaza, which was presented by Israel and the United States, saying this would increase suffering for children and families.

The proposal between the relief community is circulated to a humanitarian institution in Gaza, which would distribute food from four “safe distribution sites”, similar to the plans announced by Israel earlier this week, but have attracted criticism that it would actually exacerbate the displacement among the Gaza population.

Hakapi said that there will be a “primary number” of distribution centers that could nourish “perhaps more than a million people” before it reaches two million.

Hakapi said that “private security” will be responsible for the safety of workers in the distribution centers and in the distribution of food itself, and he refused to comment on the rules of participation for security personnel.

“Everything will be done according to international law,” he said.

Mediation efforts by the United States, Qatar and Egypt have not succeeded in implementing the second phase of the ceasefire. Israel calls for total disarmament in Hamas, which is rejected by the Islamic Group.

Hamas said it is ready to liberate all the remaining hostages that their militants seized in attacks on societies in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, and to agree to a permanent ceasefire if Israel withdrew completely from Gaza.

Hamas -led attacks on October 7, 2023, killed 1,200 people and 251 again hostage to Gaza, according to the Israeli. Israel has killed more than 52,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to the health authorities.