The UN on Thursday rejected a US and Israeli-backed Gaza aid plan, which has been condemned as a transparent effort to use aid to force Palestinians into a tiny area of southern Gaza.
“This particular distribution plan does not accord with our basic principles, including those of impartiality, neutrality, independence, and we will not be participating in this,” deputy UN spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters.
Haq’s comments come a day after a new US-backed organization, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), announced that it would begin distributing aid in Gaza by the end of May and said that it had Israeli permission.
UN agencies and other aid organizations say they have thousands of trucks ready to enter Gaza to bring relief to the starving Palestinian population, but the US and Israel have devised the new scheme for aid over allegations that Hamas has diverted previous shipments, which the Palestinian group has denied.
The GHF plan would help facilitate Israel’s goals for its planned escalations in Gaza, which include the goal of “concentrating” the entire civilian population south of the Morag Corridor, a strip of land that separates the southern Gaza cities of Rafah and Khan Younis.
According to Israeli media, the plan is to establish four aid distribution sites south of the Morag Corridor, meaning Palestinians would be forced to travel to the area or starve. BBC reported on Thursday that an additional aid distribution site might be established near the Netzarim Corridor, which separates northern Gaza from the rest of the Strip.
According to Axios, the GHF has asked Israel to identify areas for aid distribution sites in northern Gaza within 30 days. By that time, many Palestinians in northern Gaza could starve to death as experts are warning a mass famine is imminent if the situation doesn’t change.
The GHF plan would involve private US security contractors providing security for the aid distribution centers. The initial plan, which was unveiled by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, would only feed 1.1 million people, or 60% of the population.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that he was “concerned” about the humanitarian situation in Gaza and said the US was open to alternatives to the GHF plan. “I hear criticisms of that plan. We’re open to an alternative if someone has a better one,” he said. “We are for all the aid we can get without Hamas being able to steal it from people.”
According to Axios reporter Barak Ravid, Rubio expressed concern about the humanitarian situation in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but the comment was absent from the State Department’s readout of the call.
Hamas, lay down your arms and release all the hostages and this whole mess that you initiated will be over, and the good people of Gaza will get all the aid they can use. — That offer has been on the table for 18 months.
The Hamas agreement to lay down arms for a two-state solution has been repeatedly rejected by the fascist Zionist regime. They think "God" gave them the Biblical right to murder, imprison, torture and starve Palestinians as collective punishment, in total violation of international law.
Hundreds of tones of food are currently sitting rotting at the Gaza/Israel border, blocked from reaching people who are starving.
UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/un-special-committee-press-release-14nov24/
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Today marks the 77th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, where Israel initiated its ethnic cleansing campaign of Indigenous Palestinians. During that time, 531 villages were destroyed, 15,000 good people were killed, and another 750,000 good people were displaced. … The Nakba never ended.
UNRWA staffers tortured by Israeli troops to falsely admit Hamas links.
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Goals of the HAMAS: "The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine." (Article 6)
On the destruction of Israel: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." (Preamble)
The exclusive Moslem nature of the area: "The land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [Holy Possession] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day. No one can renounce it or any part, or abandon it or any part of it." (Article 11)
"Palestine is an Islamic land... Since this is the case, the Liberation of Palestine is an individual duty for every Moslem wherever he may be." (Article 13)
Rejection of a negotiated peace settlement:
"[Peace] initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement… Those conferences are no more than a means to appoint the infidels as arbitrators in the lands of Islam… There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility." (Article 13)
Anti-Jewish incitement:
"The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: 'O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him." (Article 7)
"The Hamas agreement to lay down arms for a two-state solution" That two state solution Hamas wants is for Israel to give East Jerusalem and leave the West Bank. It also does not include a peace agreement with Israel. Nor did Hamas agree to lay down their weapons. In other words it is empty plan that Hamas knows Israel will not agree to.
The Balfour Agreement laid down rules for the new state of Israel.
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It does not include the illegal occupation of Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Great plan. Not only does it not acknowledge the urgency, but it's designed to only feed half the population. It makes my skin crawl.
“Give us your tired, your hungry, your poor!…”
Any joint plan by Israel and the US should be rejected immediately. they both have done enough damage already and want to do more with this devious plan.
May 17, 2025 London sees historic turnout for Nakba anniversary and Gaza genocide protest
In a powerful display of solidarity, an estimated half a million people filled the streets of central London to mark the 77th anniversary of the Nakba and protest Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. The historic pro-Palestine demonstration called for urgent and decisive action from the UK government—including the immediate enforcement of a full arms embargo on Israel.
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