Overview

• GHF has opened a second distribution centre in Gaza and reports delivering 14,550 food packages, equivalent to about 840,000 meals, across two sites.
• Initial operations at Rafah saw chaotic scenes and reports of up to three people killed and dozens injured by Israeli army fire during a mass rush on the centre.
• UNRWA and other humanitarian organisations have condemned the GHF’s military-style distribution as wasteful and undermining principles of neutrality.
• Israel established the US-backed foundation to bypass traditional aid channels and prevent Hamas from diverting supplies, leading Hamas to urge a boycott of GHF distributions.
• Gaza continues to face a deepening humanitarian crisis with severe shortages of food, water and medicine, along with over 54,000 Palestinian casualties since October.