[rewrite this title What is Israel’s plan to distribute aid in Gaza? And why does the United Nations reject it? | news ]

The US -backed Gaza Humanitarian Corporation aims to start working in the Gaza Strip by the end of May to oversee a new Israeli plan to distribute humanitarian aid in the Palestinian sector, but the United Nations says that the plan lacks integrity and neutrality and will not participate in it.

It is not much known for its registered “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation”, its headquarters since February in Geneva, but the United States last week supported this institution without revealing whether it contributed directly.

As for the founder and CEO of the company, he is Jake Wood, who worked as a former snipe in the Marines and Sahd in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he has several tweets on social media, confirming his sympathy for Israel.

In early April, Israel proposed a “monitoring and aid entry mechanism” to Gaza. But the Secretary -General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, quickly refused and said that she threatens “with more restrictions on aid and controlling every calorie and precise pill.”

According to the Israeli plan, the American company will take over the humanitarian aid in Gaza, and to manage what has become known as “humanitarian bubbles” that will be allocated to the remaining Palestinians in “neighborhoods protected by fences and surrounded by barriers”, and managed by private security teams, and will not be allowed to enter only for those who exceed the “biometric identity”.

• What is the Gaza Relief Foundation?

The US -backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was established last February in Switzerland, with the aim of working to deliver aid in Gaza,She intends to work with two American companies for security and logistics, “UG Solichns” and “Saif Rich Solichns”.

An American source familiar with the plan said that the Gaza Relief Foundation has already received pledges of more than $ 100 million. It is not yet clear the source of this money.

Dorothy Xia, the agent of the permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations before the Security Council earlier this month that senior US officials are working with Israel to enable the Foundation to start work, and urged the United Nations and relief organizations to cooperate.

• How will the new plan work?

A document of the Gaza Relief Foundation, which was circulated by relief organizations earlier this month, showed that the Foundation will initially carry out its operations from 4 “safe distribution sites” in the southern Gaza Strip, each of which can provide 300 thousand people with food, water and cleaning tools.

The first source said that the two American companies will enter aid to Gaza to transport them to the sites, where relief organizations will then distribute them, not the two companies.

Danny Danon, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, said that some relief groups agreed to work with the Gaza Relief Foundation. The names of these groups have not yet been known.

The Foundation said that Israel agreed to increase the number of distribution sites and find ways to deliver aid to civilians who are unable to reach the distribution sites.

The Foundation asked the Israeli army to identify “sites in northern Gaza capable of hosting safe distribution sites run by the Foundation and can be operated within 30 days.” The Foundation added that it will not share any personal information about the aid recipients with Israel.

• Why does the United Nations not work with the new distribution model?

The United Nations says the US -backed distribution plan does not meet the established principles of the organization represented in integrity, neutrality and independence. Tom Fletcher, Undersecretary of the United Nations Secretary -General for Humanitarian Affairs, said that time should not be lost on the alternative proposal.

In a testimony presented by Fleischer to the Security Council, he explained that the problems in the plan posed by Israel are that they “impose more displacement. Thousands of people are harmful, and the aid is limited to only one part of Gaza and does not meet other urgent needs, and makes aid associated with political and military goals, and the starvation makes a bargaining paper.”

• Why did you introduce an alternative plan to distribute aid?

Israel prevented the entry of all aid to Gaza since the second of March, accusing the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) of stealing it, which the movement denies, and demanded the release of all the remaining Israeli prisoners in the Strip.

Since then, Israel’s pressure has increased to allow the entry of aid. The integrated phased rating of food security, a global hunger monitoring observatory, backed by the United Nations, warned last week that half a million people are facing the risk of starvation, which is equivalent to a quarter of the sector’s residents.

While US President Donald Trump acknowledged that “many people are starving in Gaza.”

Amidst the stalemate on the Israeli proposal, Washington supported the newly established Gaza Relief Foundation to oversee the distribution of aid. The Foundation stated a few days ago that it is seeking to start working in Gaza by the end of May.

Meanwhile, Israel allowed the resumption of limited aid to the existing mechanisms, as five trucks entered Gaza on Monday, which Fletcher described as a “drop in a sea.” The United Nations said on Tuesday that it had obtained Israel’s approval to enter about 100 additional aid trucks to the sector.

• What are the current mechanisms for delivering aid?

Since the outbreak of the conflict, the United Nations says that its humanitarian operation in Gaza is facing problems due to the Israeli military campaign and the restrictions that Israel imposes on entering Gaza and work throughout the Strip and looting by armed gangs.

However, the United Nations confirmed that its aid distribution system is effective and that the matter was specially established during the two -month ceasefire before Israel resumed the military operation in mid -March.

Israel was examining and agreeing to aid first, then it was transferred to the Gaza border, where the United Nations received and distributed it.

“We can return to that system,” said UN spokesman Stephen Dujarric.

“We do not need a new partner in relief operations to dictate how to perform our work in Gaza,” he added.

On Monday, Fletcher explained what the United Nations needs from Israel to increase the volume of aid, which is the opening of at least two crossings to Gaza, one in the north and the second in the south, and to simplify the procedures and accelerate them and not to determine the shares and not to impose obstacles to reaching Gaza and the failure to be attacked by the attack during its connection and allowing to meet a set of needs, including food, water, hygiene tools, shelter, health care, fuel and gas.