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The US State Department announced Thursday that the Trump Administration had approved $ 30 million in funds for the controversial organization of private food distribution, known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which has been criticized by a United Nations Agency as “a deadly trap” by hunger. Palestinians in the enclave devastated by war. It is the first financing of the United States government for the GHF confirmed by the Trump administration.

Since it began operating in May, the GHF says it has distributed more than 46 million meals to Los Gazanes, but its history has been affected by the almost daily reports of civilians who kill when trying to access their four “distribution centers.”

The Ministry of Health of Gaza, led by Hamas, said that until Wednesday, 549 people had been killed near the GHF centers trying to access the aid, and more than 4,066 other wounds. The United Nations have reported a lower number of deaths, saying that 410 people have been killed near the aid centers.

The GHF rules out the figures of the Ministry of Health as misinformation, and says daily that no one has been killed within any of its centers, while recognizing incidents of violence outside the sites and refers to the Israel Army for more information.

“We call on other countries that also support the GHF,” said Thursday, the state department spokesman Tommy Pigott, during a media conference, added that the support of the United States “is simply the latest version of the search for the peace of President Trump and the Rubio Secretary in the region.”

Pigott said he couldn’t say if US funds had already been delivered to GHF.

When asked about the almost daily reports of fatal shootings by Israeli forces around GHF distribution centers, which the Israeli army says he is investigating, Pigott sent the journalist to the FDI to comment on his investigations and added: “Many of these reports are based on the propaganda of Hamas.”

Since his emphasis on the priority of the Trump administration is the provision of more help in Gaza, Pigott was repeatedly asked if the United States would push Israel to allow other well -established humanitarian organizations to operate more freely within the strip. He answered that question several times repeating his call to other countries to support GHF.

After being pushed by multiple reporters about accusations that GHF centers are “traps” so that Israeli forces shoot civilians, Pigott said it was “important to realize that Hamas has the exclusive responsibility of this conflict.”

Other humanitarian organizations, including UN agencies, have refused to work with the GHF, saying that it operates in a way that dehumanizes the Palestinians by forcing them to venture long distances for food and citing repeated cases of violence around their distribution sites.

“Now is the moment of unity and collaboration,” GHF said Friday. “We expect other humanitarian and help organizations and that they join us so that we can feed even more gazanes, together.”

News themezone has requested interviews in person in person with representatives of GHF repeatedly since the creation of the organization was announced. GHF has not yet granted an interview.

Criticism of GFH assemblies, since it is labeled as “a death trap” and a “power of the United States”

The UN agency chief for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, called the operation “a death trap” In a scathing statement earlier this week.

There were new reports on Friday by Palestinians who shot near a GHF center in southern Gaza, near Rafah’s city. A fan video shared online by local Palestinian news organizations, which News themezone could not immediately verify independently, showed people accustomed to the ground to cover themselves as the bullets can be heard. The video was shared with the title: “We are besieged by hunger from behind and death from front.”

International charity doctors without borders added their voice on Friday to the list of non -governmental organizations that denounce the GHF, calling the group an “American Israeli power” and a “slaughter disguised as humanitarian aid.”

“The four distribution sites, all located in areas under the total control of Israeli forces after people had been displaced by force from there, are the size of the soccer fields surrounded by surveillance points, earth mounds and spike wire. The fenced entrance only gives an access point inside or outside, MSF MSF coordinator of MSF, Aitor Zabalgagogealaaaaaa, said in the statement. “If people arrive early and approach the control points, shoot them. If they arrive on time, but there is an overflow and jump on the mounds and cables, they receive shots. If they are late, they should not be there because it is an ‘evacuated area’, they receive shots. “

“It is unfortunate that MSF has joined the erroneous information smear campaign of the Gaza Ministry of Health controlled by Hamas,” said a GHF spokesman for News themezone on Friday. “Many of these alleged incidents were falsely linked to GHF sites when, in fact, they occurred near other humanitarian convoys or distribution places.”

The spokesman did not answer the question of News themezone about whether the GHF was created or operates in direct conjunction with US or Israeli governments.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz added more weight to accusations about violence around GHF centers in an article published on Friday, saying that it had been counted by an anonymous staff of the IDF of a deliberate policy to shoot the crowds near the GHF distribution sites. A soldier was summoned saying that he had been deployed near a GHF center, and described the situation as “a field of killing.”

“Where he was parked, between one and five people died every day,” said the soldier to Haaretz, who for a long time has been critical of the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “They are treated as a hostile force, without crowd control measures, without tear gas, only the living fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade pitchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shot stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is a fire.”

“We strongly reject the accusation raised in the article,” the FDI told News themezone in a statement on Friday. “The IDF did not instruct the forces to deliberately fire civilians, including those who approach the distribution centers. To be clear, the directives of the FDI prohibit deliberate attacks against civilians.”

The Army said it was “operating to allow and facilitate the distribution of humanitarian aid by the” American Humanitarian Foundation “(GHF), and to ensure the routes that lead to the distribution centers, to allow help to reach civilians instead of Hamas”.

The IDF added that their forces were “carrying out systematic learning processes aimed at improving the operational response in the area (around the GHF centers) and minimizing, as far as possible, a potential friction between the civilian population and the forces of the FDI. As part of this effort, the FDI forces have recently taken measures to reorganize the area, including the installation of the new fault additional routes and more. “

He said that recent civilian reports are damaged that they were approaching the GHF centers were “being examined by the relevant authorities of the IDF” and that “any accusation of a deviation from the law or the directives of the FDI will be examined thoroughly, and additional measures will be taken as necessary.”

In a joint statement on Friday, Netanyahu and the Minister of Defense of Israel, Israel Katz, also said that the “state of Israel strongly rejects the despicable libels of blood published in the newspaper ‘Haretz”.

In response to Haaretz’s article, a GHF spokesman told News themezone on Friday that “there had been no incidents or deaths nearby or in the immediate vicinity of any of our distribution sites. However, the IFFs have the task of providing a safe step so that the requesting for help to all humanitarian organizations operate in Gaza, including GHF. GHF. GHF. Israel transparently the results in a timely manner. “

GHF Boss rules out criticism as “misinformation”

GHF’s ​​executive president Johnnie Moore, an evangelical preacher designated twice by President Trump as an advisor to the White House on religious freedoms, said Friday of Great Britain Sky News that there was a “disinformation campaign” that “is destined to close our efforts” in the Gaza Strip.

“Hamas is intentionally damaging people in order to defame what we are doing,” he said, adding that “the American support of the effort is the annex to which it is really working, despite the misinformation campaign that is very, very deliberate, aimed at closing our efforts.”

Moore suggested that violence could not avoid its centers in Gaza, since the small densely populated Palestinian territory remains an active war zone.

Sky cited a UN figure of 410 people killed near the Gaza aid centers, slightly lower than the figure provided by the Ministry of Health.

In a publication on social networks after his interview with Sky, Moore said that “some associated with the UN (and others) share information to know that it cannot be verified independently, and they are doing it only for political purposes … while affirming impartiality. GHF is not political. It only has a mission: feed gaza.”

“The key piece of misinformation is that, every day, some figure leaves the Ministry of Health of Gaza. He goes around the world, “he told Sky, when he was specifically asked what misinformation he was referring.

Moore drew a distinction between the GHF operations and those of the Israel Army.

“The difference between, you know, what happens when the IDF are involved in an incident, and we are not denying that there have been those incidents, there have been those incidents, but we can talk to the IDF, the IDF do an investigation and that the FDIs are a professionalized army,” said Moore. “Hamas is intentionally damaging people in order to defame what we are doing.”

The FDIs have issued repeated statements after the reports of troops who shot unarmed Palestinian civilians seeking help, saying that he has launched investigations. The results of any investigation related to incidents near GHF centers have not yet been made public by IDF.

“They are going to look for food, but they end up being killed.”

Several Palestinians have told the News themezone team in Gaza about experiences of violence near GHF distribution sites.

At the beginning of June, the family of Replace Akhras, an eight -year -old mother, told the News themezone team in Gaza at her funeral that shot her on the way to recover a help package from a GHF center.

“You went to get us food, mom,” Akhras’s little daughter cried, sobbing for her body. “We will never forgive them.”

“They are going to look for food, but they end up being killed,” a man from the Nasser de Gaza hospital told News themezone, where many of the injured were taken after an incident near a Center of GHF in southern Gaza this week, News themezone. “They come with empty bags and the US security company together with the Israeli army, shoot these young people.”

The man said that 30 people were killed that day trying to arrive in the center of GHF.

“I tell everyone: do not go. I send a message to all those young men: they do not leave. Families should not send their children. Those who will die. It is a trap. Stop going there. And if your child insists on going, break your legs. Don’t go there.”

Another hospital man told News themezone that people died “in each family. They were simply going to receive food. They are hungry, duel. They have nothing to eat. Nothing to drink. There is no life. There is no security. There is nothing like that in Gaza.”

The man said he wanted the rest of the world to understand the suffering of people in Gaza.

“Young men at their best are dying. What leads these young people to go to the help sites? It’s hunger. Hunger fire has devastated people.”

GHF refuses to reveal other sponsors

When asked why the GHF was no more transparent about its financing, organization and management, Moore refused to give more information about these matters, instead, said the group’s daily press release to news organizations that list the amount of foods he says he has distributed and other “operations in the field.”

The GHF has been surrounded by controversy since the moment it began operations in mid -May. A few days after he launched his operation in Gaza, the first executive director of the group, American Jake Wood, He announced his resignationsaying that it had been clear that the Foundation would not be allowed to operate independently. GHF Then he said He was finishing his operation in Switzerland after the Swiss authorities said he was violating rules for foundations registered in that country.

GHF told News themezone at that time that from now on, its only operations would be based in the United States.

“We are saying everything we can, every day, and by the way, we promise to do more of that,” said Moore on Friday when Sky News presses where the organization’s financing comes from and with what other entities work directly. “One of the reasons why we have not published some pieces of information is for this surprising and surprising opposition to any effort to do this differently.”

Moore repeated the insistence of the GHF that only his method of distribution of help in Gaza was viable, since the only other way meant that “Hamas” practically each help piece that enters the gaza strip is immediately taken by the armed gangs, by Hamas. “

Other aid agencies, and enclave officials led by Hamas, recognize that looting occurs, but refute the statements of theft or large -scale aid diversion, saying that the main challenge of distributing food in Gaza are the Israeli forces that do not allow those operations.

On June 11, the United States ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee was asked about the News themezone BBC News network if the State Department was financing GHF.

“It is currently not being financed to a large extent by the United States,” he said at that time. “There are other countries, there are NGOs, there are humanitarian funds, and there are private individuals who have financed them, all of which have requested to remain anonymous. I think they do not want to become the objectives of the hatred that has accelerated to those who have tried to do something positive in what is a very difficult situation.”

Haley Ott contributed to this report.

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