The United States confirms a plan for private companies to provide Gaza assistance despite the warning of the United Nations

The United States has confirmed that a new system for providing humanitarian aid to the Palestinians in Gaza through private companies is being prepared, with Israel’s continued siege for a third month.

The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Hakapi, said that the “distribution centers” protected by security contractors will provide food and other supplies to more than a million people at first, as part of the effort to prevent Hamas to help.

He denied that Israel would participate in the delivery of aid or distribution, but he said that its forces would secure the vicinity of the centers.

This comes with the emergence of details about the controversial plan, which UN Agencies have repeated that they will not cooperate with it because it “borrows” aid.

“We will not participate,” said Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the United Nations Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jens Laerke, to the BBC in Geneva, “only in efforts that are in line with our principles.”

He added: “There is no reason to set a system that contradicts the DNA for any initial humanitarian organization.”

Since early March, Israel has cut off all supplies to reach Gaza – including food, shelters, medicines and fuel – which leads to a humanitarian crisis for its 2.1 million residents.

A third of society’s kitchens in Gaza – one of the last remaining lines of life in the region – has been forced to close over the past two weeks due to lack of food and fuel, according to OCA.

Among them was the last field fixtures in the central global cuisine, a US -based charitable institution that provided 133,000 meals per day before the ingredients were run out on Tuesday.

Basic food prices also increased in local markets, with 25 kg (55 pounds) of flour that has now been sold for $ 415 (313 pounds) in Gaza City – an increase of 30 times compared to the end of February.

Hakapi told Jerusalem journalists that US President Donald Trump saw a help in Gaza as an urgent issue and that his team had been assigned to “do everything that can be accelerated to accelerate this and to what could happen humanitarian assistance in the people.”

Israel and the United States accuse Hamas of converting aid. The ambassador said: “The previous procedures were often met with enthusiasm, stealing food that was dedicated to hungry people.”

The United Nations and other agencies say it has strong supervisory mechanisms and that when aid to Gaza rises, the looting accidents have stopped significantly. The World Health Organization says none of its medical supplies was not looted during the war.

The Trump administration is trying to build a momentum behind the new assistance initiative before the president’s flight next week to the rich Arab Gulf states that can help in financing.

She says a non -governmental organization has been established and that aid was delivered will not be under Israeli military control.

“The Israelis will participate in providing the necessary security because this is a war zone. But they will not participate in the distribution of food, or even bring food to Gaza,” Hakapi said.

The newly registered Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has been created for this purpose.

It is a 14 -page document of GHF, which the BBC sees, by creating four distribution sites, giving food, water and cleaning groups initially to 1.2 million people – less than 60 % of the population. She says the project aims to eventually reach Ghazan.

The paper aims to potential donors, the paper states that “the months of the conflict have collapsed traditional relief channels in Gaza.”

“The GHF was created to restore this vital artery through an independent model, amazingly with direct help – and only – for the needy,” it continues.

The document confirms that GHF “is guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence.”

It is said that the boards of management and advisers include the former CEO of World Central Kitchen, along with the former US President of the United Nations World Food Program, David Beasley – although his participation has not been confirmed yet.

Full details are not given on how to make a mechanism of assistance on the ground.

The Gaza war arose due to Hamas’s attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which witnessed about 1,200 people who were killed and more than 250 hostages. About 59 years old, up to 24 of whom are alive.

Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 52,700 people in Gaza, most of them women, children and the elderly, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.

Last Sunday, the security cabinet in Israel approved an intense military attack against Hamas in Gaza, which could include the displacement of the population by force to the south, the seizure of the entire lands indefinitely, and the control of aid.

Soon this was met with wide international condemnation. Many Israeli allies indicated that it was obligated under international law to allow the approval of humanitarian aid without obstacle.

The UK Middle East Minister, Hamish Fallon, told Parliament on Monday that the British government is very concerned that Israeli advertisements could lead to a 19 -month war in Gaza to a “dangerous new stage.”

Regarding the issue of aid, he said: “As the United Nations said, it is difficult to see how, if implemented, the new Israeli plan to provide aid through private companies will be consistent with humanitarian principles and meet the size of the need. We need urgent clarity from the Israeli government over its intentions.

“We must remember what is at stake. These humanitarian principles are important to every conflict around the world. They must be applied constantly in every war zone.”

This week, the United States Special Envoy for the Middle East, Steve Whittkov, briefed the United Nations Security Council members – which includes the United Kingdom – is behind the closed doors on the new plan to resume the delivery of aid.

Meanwhile, the Israeli media reported that the Israeli forces were already constructing distribution centers in Rafah, in southern Gaza, in a “sterile area” designed to be free from the presence of Hamas.

According to reports, Israel expects aid to be distributed to representatives on the security screen from each family in Ghazan, who will be allowed to take supplies only for his relatives. They will only enter the centers on foot.

The Israel Defense Corporation was said to have been said that the average amount of aid that must be distributed as 70 kg (154 pounds) per family per week.

Reports say that the Israeli army will eventually be stationed outside the distribution centers, allowing relief workers to hand over food without the soldiers ’participation directly.

Israel and the United States argue that the new regime will prevent Hamas from being able to steal food for its own benefit. By preventing its access to help and participating in the security caravans, they hope to reduce the influence of the group on the residents of Ghazan.

However, there are major questions about the feasibility of the plan. The current United Nations system uses about 400 points of aid distribution, while the situation in Gaza is now at a crisis point, with warnings that collective hunger is imminent.

In the United Nations surrounding Geneva, relief officials said they had “accurately” before they decided that they could not participate in the American -Israeli plan. They said they were not officially presented with the GHF document currently being traded.

James Elder, a UN UNICEF spokesman, said the plan that has been developed will lead to more children who suffer, not less. He pointed out that civilians will have to travel to the military areas to receive aid, and this means that the most vulnerable children – children and the elderly – will fight to get there.

He said that the decision to locate all the distribution points in the south seemed to be designed to use aid as a “taste” to remove Ghazan again. The United Nations says 90 % of the population has been displaced during the war, often several times.

The plan discussed with United Nations agencies is only 60 charges of aid that enters every day – much less than they say it is necessary to meet the increasing needs, and the tenth number that was displayed daily during the ceasefire for two months.

Jens Laerke from Ocha said, in short, the proposals submitted by Israel “do not fulfill the minimum initial human support.”

Analysts say that the current impasse on Gaza aid is not just an existential threat to the extensive United Nations humanitarian operation in the Palestinian territories, but it can also have effects on its future work.

If this is the case to agree to a plan that accommodates the army’s requirements on one side in a conflict, it may abandon the perceptions of the United Nations neutrality and the integrity of the United Nations, and to place a dangerous precedent that leads to similar demands in other war areas in which it operates.

The United Nations and other relief agencies also indicate that they currently have a lot of supplies that have accumulated near the Gaza border crossings, and ready to enter, if Israel allows this.

Without ending the siege, it is expected that the risk of starvation will grow.

In Gabalia, in northern Gaza, which was already the focus of Israeli military operations against Hamas, Palestinian families told BBC about their increasing despair while waiting for the food skin in Turkey, or a community kitchen, which turned into a chaotic stampede.

Umm Ahmed said: “Every day I come here and wait with the cooking pot to feed my children.” “Fate does not fill us. We were suffering for two months. There is no flour or anything. Open the border so that we can eat properly.”

She said that she would not comply with Israeli efforts to force her to move south to a sink to receive assistance.

“We don’t have money for transportation, we don’t have money to eat!” I shouted. “I don’t want to evacuate from here, I prefer to die instead of leaving.”

“Takia is our last source of food,” said Muhammad, who was waiting for five hours in the class. “My wife is pregnant and sick and I am unable to transfer her to the hospital. How is it supposed to reach his head?”

Participated in additional reports by David Green in Jerusalem