Controversial US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation ends aid operations
Source: BBC
The controversial, US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says it is winding down its aid operations in the Palestinian territory, after almost six months.
The organisation had already suspended its three food distribution sites in Gaza after the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect six weeks ago.
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The GHF said on Monday that it was winding down operations now because of the "successful completion of its emergency mission", with a total of three million packages containing the equivalent of more than 187 million meals delivered to Palestinians.
The GHF's executive director, Jon Acree, also said the US-led Civil-Military Coordination Centre (CMCC) - which has been set up to help implement US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan - would be "adopting and expanding the model GHF piloted".
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Actually, food aid is still not getting through in the full amounts needed:
American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) opened this community kitchen in al-Zawayda in central Gaza after the ceasefire began six weeks ago.
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But while Anera is managing to get access to more food, brought into Gaza by its partner, the US humanitarian organisation World Central Kitchen, there are still vital ingredients missing to improve people's diets.
"We are mostly confined to cooking just three types of meals in a week: rice, pasta and lentils," Mr Matar says. "We work hard to include vegetables like sweet peppers, onion and potatoes. This enables us to improve the taste and the nutritional value."
"We need the food to be more diverse, to secure fresh vegetables and essential proteins like meat and chicken," he goes on. "Those essentials are not allowed to enter Gaza for humanitarian aid distribution."
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