US-backed Gaza aid group pauses food distribution after days of violence

The arguable Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is pausing its assistance organisation operations for 1 time arsenic it seeks to bolster information astir its sites. The intermission is reportedly besides intended to springiness GHF clip to make plans for accommodating larger crowds.

GHF’s interruption successful operations comes aft Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops reportedly changeable astatine Palestinians who strayed from a pre-approved way to get assistance 3 days successful a row, according to the Times of Israel. 

Palestinians transportation assistance supplies which they received from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, successful the cardinal Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025.  (REUTERS/Ramadan Abed)

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"GHF is actively engaged successful discussions with the IDF to heighten its information measures beyond the contiguous perimeter of GHF sites," a GHF spokesperson told Fox News Digital. The enactment said it has asked the IDF to "introduce measures that usher ft postulation successful a mode that minimizes disorder oregon escalation risks adjacent IDF subject perimeters, make clearer IDF-issued guidance to assistance the colonisation transit safely and heighten IDF unit grooming and refine interior IDF procedures to enactment safety."

"These measures are portion of our committedness to continuous improvements for civilian information and hazard simplification successful 1 of the astir analyzable humanitarian environments successful the world," the GHF spokesperson added. "Our apical precedence remains ensuring the information and dignity of civilians receiving aid. This is captious fixed that GHF is the lone cognition reliably delivering assistance to the Gazan radical astatine present."

The IDF said that 121 trucks of assistance from "the UN and the planetary community" crossed into Gaza connected May 28, 2025. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

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On Tuesday, the IDF said its troops "identified respective suspects moving toward them, deviating from the designated entree routes." The soldiers fired informing shots and past opened occurrence erstwhile the suspects would not retreat, according to the IDF. 

Contrary to the IDF’s relationship of events, respective reports stated that astatine slightest 27 Palestinians were killed portion trying to entree assistance connected Tuesday. The Times of Israel reported that Hamas wellness authorities claimed 31 radical were killed connected Sunday, 3 connected Monday and 27 connected Tuesday, successful summation to the galore wounded successful each incident.

Palestinians transportation assistance supplies they received from the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, successful Khan Younis, successful the confederate Gaza Strip, May 28, 2025.  (REUTERS/Hatem Khaled)

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While the GHF has enjoyed the enactment of the U.S. and Israel, respective assistance organizations and the United Nations person criticized the system, claiming that it militarizes aid. However, Israel has repeatedly praised GHF for distributing assistance successful Gaza without empowering Hamas.

U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordination Tom Fletcher, an outspoken professional of GHF, has routinely urged successful interviews that his enactment beryllium allowed to bash its work.

On Wednesday, the U.N. Security Council is expected to ballot connected a request for a ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas, arsenic good arsenic humanitarian entree crossed Gaza, according to Reuters. 

Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon has already voiced his objection to the resolution, saying that it "undermines" humanitarian assistance alleviation and "ignores a moving strategy successful favour of governmental agendas."