A group of Democratic Senators led by Democratic Sen. Maryland’s Chris Van Hollen Trump is urging the administration to suspend US financial aid for Israeli -backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a private food distribution organization, the way Ghazans provide food and because many are criticizing. Killed Trying to reach its distribution sites.
The United States and Israel have advocated a recently established GHF to change the United Nations, which has created a comprehensive network of human workers inside Gaza for decades. Israel accused the United Nations of prejudice and collusion with Hamas.
One in Letter State Secretary Marco Rubio sent to Sunday, 21 senators expressed “serious” concerns about “financial assistance for” American role and troubled GHF “.
“We urge you to immediately shut down all American funding for GHF and resume support for the current United Nations support coordination mechanisms to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches the citizens,” written in the letter.
The United Nations has warned that the human crisis in Gaza is growing rapidly as more Palestinians are threatened by starvation after a month’s long Israeli blockade, and recent military operations have complicated human efforts to help. The IDF claims that there is no starvation.
The letter focuses on a pledge of $ 30 million from the state department announced last month, and on the operation of GHF, especially the use of armed contractors who stand behind IDF soldiers at food distribution sites in four designated military areas. Hungry gazans should visit areas that are difficult for those who are very weak.
The letter stated that since the appointment of Geneva conferences in 1949, the lines between assistance and distribution of safety operations shatter the well -established criteria.
American allies have also been important for the strategy used by the US and Israel -backed GHF.
French External Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told Margaret Brainon on “Face the Nation” on Sunday that Gaza “is on the verge of food havoc” and France hopes that “the Israeli government has stopped the operation of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. [a] Rakt seeds in human health distribution lines in Gaza. ,
United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that a thousand Palestinians have been killed in an attempt to reach the meal from 27 May.
“We organize video calls with our own humanists who are dying of hunger in front of our eyes,” said Guterres. “We will continue to talk on every occasion. But words do not feed hungry children.”
The United Nations Human Rights Office stated that 1,054 people were killed while trying to get food from the end of May, and among them, 766 were killed, while Gaza was trying to reach the sites run by the Humanitarian Foundation. Others were killed when the United Nations convoy or assistance exploded from bullets around the places.
A group of senators led by van Holene are seeking answers whether the required oversight is being bypassed to benefit GHF. His letter cites public reports that the Trump administration authorized the funds under “priority directive”, meaning that it could “avoid a comprehensive audit that is usually necessary for the first USAID grant groups.”
Senators want to see GHF’s “Full Funding App and all auxiliary documentation” and demand to find out if any statutory and regulatory requirements were waived.
He also asked Rubio about the procurement mechanism, resulting in $ 30 million funding, and wanted to know who signed the agreement, which could be responsible for compliance violations and whether the authorities were aware of the possible concerns about “the ability to protect Palestinians” by USAID.
The State Department has not responded to the CBS news request to comment on the letter of senators. A spokesman for the department said on Friday that funding has been allotted, but has not yet been distributed to GHF.
On Saturday, amid international resentment, Israel Defense Force began Aircraft For humanitarian aid in Gaza and said that it would “enable the human corridors to” to reach the safe movement of the United Nations to the population. ”
The United Nations has said that the aircraft are insufficient. The previous aircrafts have fallen on the ghazan and killed them. Now about 2 million people live in Gaza and have been dropped in an even more limited area that lacks wide open spaces where air-drown palettes can land.
Israel was announced after extensive international resentment in the images of hungry children and death reports to children. Leaders in Europe, including French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Kir Stmper and German Chancellor Frederich Merz, were coordinated by phone in Europe on Saturday. A readout of the call issued by the UK stated that the three leaders stated that the situation in Gaza is “frightening” and “emphasized the immediate need for the immediate ceasefire, to lift all the restrictions on the aid for Israel and to provide those in Gaza to those who are strict needed.”
On Friday, two Jordan officials said they were considering the aircraft and the United Arab Emirates sent a 7,000 tonnes of aid ships to the banks of Gaza. But it has not been determined who will distribute food once it comes.
The GHF states that it has distributed more than 91 million food to Ghazan, but almost daily reports of citizens being injured or killed have come as they try to reach one of the four distribution hubs of the group, which are all located in Southern Gaza.
In an interview with BBC News this week, Anthony Agulayar, a US army veteran and former GHF contractor, widened that he said that he looked at the ground behind the IDF lines during humanitarian aid distribution, called the operation “amateur”.
“I shot the Israeli defense forces shooting in a crowd of Palestinians. I saw the Israeli defense forces firing in a rush of people from the Mercwa tank during a main gun tank.” “In my most obvious evaluation, I would say they are criminals. Throughout my career, I have never seen an indiscriminateness and level of unnecessary force and unnecessary force against a civic population, an unarmed, hungry population.”
In a statement by CBS News, the GHF called the claims of the agariler “physically wrong” and said they were abolished from their position for “misconduct”.
The group has also been criticized by the United Nations, stating that the GHF strategy is neither safe nor safe and is very weak for ghazan to travel to military areas to secure food.
Philip Lazarini, Commissioner General for the United Nations Relief and Working Agency, or UNRWA, who provides assistance to the Palestinian refugees, condemned the GHF in June, called it “a hatred” and “the trap of a death is the cost of more life more than the cost of more life.”
As the terrible human situation in Gaza worsened this week, GHF and United Nations groups blamed each other.
In several public statements and social media posts last week, the GHF said that the responsibility for large -scale starvation is to allow its full aid trucks to sit untouched and undeclared inside Gaza with the United Nations.
GHF spokesman Chapin Fee said in a video posted to X, “The United Nations cannot distribute this humanitarian aid to those who need the most, and I am not sure what the reason for this is.” “Whether it is robbers, security or whether they are playing politics, it doesn’t just matter. Gaza people are better.”
GHF Executive Chairman, Reverend Johnny Moore, A Interview This week the United Nations accused the conservative commentator Ben Shapiro of “playing politics with people’s lives”.
“They are actually a wishful participant towards the Hamas of the table of talks in the ceasefire negotiations, and refusing to distribute the aid and spread the story around the world, that the people of Gaza are hungry, if not under Hamas influence, then receive their demands on the conversation table,” said “Moore said.
The United Nations World Food Program states that hundreds of assistance trucks are ready to transfer trucks, but the approval required to transport and distribute from the Israeli army is not coming quickly. In a statement on Friday, he said that more than half of his requests were approved and the convoy was generally delayed, sometimes for about two days, waiting for permission to travel within Gaza.
Meanwhile, a UNICEF spokesperson confirmed CBS News that ready-to-use of medical food or rootf is used to treat malnourished children-to treat malnourished children-expected to exit in the middle of the August if it is not allowed.
“We are now facing a serious situation that we are running out of therapeutic supply,” said Salim Ovis, a spokesman of UNICEF in Amman, Jordan. “This is really dangerous for children because they currently face hunger and malnutrition,” he said.
Oweis stated that UNICEF had only Rutaf left for 3,000 children. In the first two weeks of July alone, UNICEF treated 5,000 children facing acute malnutrition in Gaza.
The UNICEF spokesperson said the agency is ignorant whether GHF is distributing such special food and emphasized that it should be given to children as they are evaluated by professional health workers to suffer from acute malnutrition. GHF did not respond to CBS News when asked if the Foundation also distributes special high-rational food for intensely malnourished children.
UNICEF is the main buyer of Rutf in the world.
Margaret Brainan and Camilla Skik contributed to this report.
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