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Over 450 Palestinians have been killed and more than 3500 injured while trying to access food at the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) since May 27, when it began operating in Gaza. Survivors describe being shelled, sniped, robbed, and crushed.

In the last week, Drop Site News and +972 Magazine have published separate reports documenting harrowing firsthand accounts from those who made the journey to Israel’s so-called aid ‘death traps.’ Below are some of their testimonies: 🧵 1. Hatem Shaldan (19, killed)

➤ In the early hours of June 11, Hatem and his brother Hamza left their shelter to find flour. Their family had been surviving without food for weeks.
➤ Along with dozens of others, they gathered on Al-Rashid Street near Gaza’s coastline after hearing aid trucks were on the way.
➤ Around 3:30 a.m., the trucks appeared—followed almost immediately by Israeli artillery fire.
➤ Hatem ran and tried to hide in tall grass. But Israeli tanks opened fire again.
➤ “Hatem was hit by shrapnel in his legs,” a wounded survivor told +972. “He bled for hours. Dogs circled them.”
➤ His body was later found at Al-Aqsa Hospital, identified from a photo circulating in WhatsApp groups.
➤ “Eventually, when more aid trucks arrived, people helped move the bodies onto one of them.”

In southern Lebanon, Israeli forces have turned almost 50 towns and tens of thousands of homes to rubble.

Despite the "ceasefire" with Lebanon—and while actively committing genocide in Gaza and launching near-daily attacks on Iran—Israel continues to bomb southern Lebanese communities.

Thread: Drop Site contributor @loffredojeremy reports from the ground🧵 In the town of Kfarkila—once home to more than 9,000—only a few dozen residents remain. Nearly every home has been reduced to ruins, not by combat but through systematic demolition. Israeli forces occupied the town, methodically detonated homes, and torched every car.

🏥 Medical Sources Confirm Full Evacuation of Indonesian Hospital in Gaza

Medical sources confirmed to Drop Site that all remaining patients and staff have been successfully evacuated from the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. The hospital - like all other hospitals in North Gaza - is now completely empty after months of siege and bombardment.

The nearest available medical facility for residents of northern Gaza is now Gaza City’s al-Ahli Arab (Baptist) Hospital - located further south and already struggling under the weight of Gaza’s collapsing healthcare system.

Images shared by aid workers involved in the evacuation show the devastation left behind: destroyed hospital infrastructure, abandoned blood supplies, and teams racing to salvage what medical equipment they could. The evacuation marks another grim milestone as Gaza’s healthcare network continues to disintegrate under relentless attacks.

(More photos below(


The heavily damaged exterior of the Indonesian Hospital, its facade blackened by strikes, with shattered hospital signage scattered in the rubble.

New report for @DropSiteNews by @MariamBarghouti 🧵🔽

1/ After October 7, 2023, the Israeli prison system entered its deadliest period in history.

At least 70 Palestinian detainees have been confirmed killed through torture, systemic starvation, or the deliberate denial of medical care. Significant numbers have been forcibly disappeared, their whereabouts unknown. 2/ Wael Jaghoub, a leader in the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, spent 30 years in Israeli prisons. Released earlier this year, he was rearrested in May.

“Israel is intentionally starving detainees,” he told Drop Site. “Within months, detainees were losing 20 to 25 kilos.”

BREAKING: Israeli forces today demolished the Noura Al-Kaabi Dialysis Center, part of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza.

The center was a vital lifeline for kidney patients in northern Gaza with Dr. Marwan Sultan of the Indonesian Hospital saying more than 180 patients in northern Gaza depended on regular dialysis there three times a week.

The center had completely ceased operations after being destroyed earlier in the war, but relaunched in August 2024 following a reconstruction project supported by the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS).

In April 2025, the World Health Organization reported that six out of seven dialysis centers in Gaza had already been destroyed. The demolition of the Noura Al-Kaabi Center now makes it all seven.

Today, only a handful of partially functioning hospitals are able to provide limited dialysis services for the over 1,000 kidney failure patients across Gaza requiring ongoing care. The chart attached shows their names, the number of working machines, and the weekly dialysis sessions.

Treatments have been drastically reduced, with patients receiving fewer and shorter sessions — sharply increasing the risk of severe complications and death.

According to Dr. Yousef Abu Rish of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 400 kidney failure patients have died due to the destruction of dialysis machines and the collapse of treatment capacity. Images from reconstruction project before the center re-launched in August 2024.

🚨 BREAKING at @DropSiteNews: 15 Killed, 50 Injured at GHF Aid Site Where Israel Had Previously Massacred 15 Rescue Workers

Israeli forces opened fire today near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution site in Tal al-Sultan, west of Rafah, killing at least 15 Palestinians and injuring more than 50 others, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) had announced the opening of the new distribution center earlier today — its fourth heavily militarized “Secure Distribution Site.”

Three sites have been set up in Rafah in southern Gaza, and one in central Gaza. None have been established in the north (including Gaza City), where, according to the IDF’s own estimates, around one million Palestinians still reside. (Times of Israel)

In a statement published on Facebook just hours ago, the GHF said that on Saturday, June 1, “it will have only one active distribution site, which is the Tel al-Sultan site…. located west of Rafah, near the Sultan roundabout. All other sites will be closed.”

The statement continues: “We invite only the residents of the Al-Barouk neighborhood to come to the site starting at 5:00 AM.

The safe passage leading to the Tel al-Sultan site will be via Al-Rashid Street. The Israeli Defense Forces will be present in the area to secure the passage.

It is forbidden to use the passage before 5:00 AM, as we have been informed by the army that it will be active in the area before and after the designated safe hours.

We remind all residents to stay on the road — leaving the road poses a great danger.

We remind everyone to be patient and note that only one box is allowed per family.

If anyone tries to take more than one box or steal boxes from others, the site will be closed. If people try to storm the site, it will also be closed.”

This new site was established in the same neighborhood where Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and emergency workers in late March, bulldozing their bodies and ambulances into a mass grave while they were on a rescue mission.

Jonathan Whittall (@_jwhittall), Head of Office a.i. for UN OCHA oPt, who had accompanied Palestinian Red Crescent teams on a mission to retrieve the bodies of some of the paramedics, described it a “grotesque symbol of how life, and that which sustains it, is being both erased and controlled in Gaza.”

Drop Site will be following this breaking story and sharing updates as they come in. More context on Gaza’s engineered humanitarian collapse in the thread below. 🧵⬇️

I. Surviving the “Gaza Inhumanitarian Foundation”

GHF claims the new center distributed 28,800 food parcels today, amounting to more than 1.6 million meals. It also claims to have delivered a total of 3.8 million meals since launching operations on May 26, 2025. No independent organizations have been able to verify GHF’s claims and locals say those numbers are simply not true.

But even going by GHF’s own count, the U.S.-Israeli replacement for established UN and NGO channels has provided less than two meals per person over the course of a week to each of the two million Palestinians in Gaza. 80 days after the United States and Israel began starving them under a total siege.

Amjad Shawa, Director of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network, told Al Jazeera that no GHF parcels have made their way to Gaza City or the northern governorate. On Al Jazeera’s broadcast earlier today, Shawa derisively referred to GHF as the “Gaza Inhumanitarian Foundation” and said the organization is “misleading the international community” about its numbers.” The parcels, Shawa said, are only enough for a family of five for 2–3 days — not 5.5 days, as GHF has claimed publicly.

Al Jazeera, citing local sources, reported that at least two Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded this morning while trying to access aid at the GHF site in Rafah. One man, speaking to Sahat English, described the violence at the GHF distribution hub:

“The same people who distributed aid opened fire on us. A bite of food soaked in blood. It’s either you die or your child dies.”

Another man said he managed only to “scrape together leftovers off the ground” to feed his family. “The strong take everything and the weak are left with nothing,” he added.

A woman, describing the crowd of an estimated 50,000 people, said it felt “like judgment day — chaos everywhere,” and added that “there’s no flour, no rice, no aid, no organization.”

For many, the process was one of humiliation and desperation — not humanitarian relief, with the scale of deprivation clear on the ground.

Twelve-year-old Rahaf Abu Arar returned empty-handed after being crushed in the crowd at a GHF aid site. Her 19-year-old brother was killed in an Israeli bombing earlier in the genocide, and her 3-month-old baby brother, she said, died recently of malnutrition.

“I’m the oldest now. I provide for the household. I came back with nothing but cartons,” she told journalist Samer Alboji. “We came today because of extreme hunger.”

Recipients of GHF parcels have reported that the boxes contain dry goods such as rice, flour, canned beans, pasta, olive oil, biscuits, and sugar — but no clean water and no fuel to cook with.

A very limited amount of aid has entered through established channels (more on that below). But, Eri Kaneko, spokesperson for the U.N. humanitarian affairs office, told Reuters that COGAT (the Israeli Ministry of Defense body that handles all Israeli control over humanitarian access, aid deliveries, and civilian affairs in Gaza) has severely restricted the entry of food:

“Israeli authorities have not allowed us to bring in a single ready-to-eat meal. The only food permitted has been flour for bakeries. Even if allowed in unlimited quantities, which it hasn’t been, it wouldn’t amount to a complete diet for anyone.”

GHF notes that each of its food parcels contains 1,750 calories — which is well below the World Health Organization’s standard of 2,100 calories per person per day.

On Friday, only one of GHF’s four aid sites in Gaza opened for distribution. It operated for less than an hour before GHF announced on Facebook that it had closed because all its supplies had been “fully distributed.”

Sarajevo | Gaza Tribunal
Public Assembly – Day 3 Highlights 🧵

Day 3 in Sarajevo featured testimony on genocide, dehumanization, cultural erasure, and resistance—presented by scholars, legal experts, and activists including Ilan Pappé, Omar Barghouti, Raz Segal, Maya Wind, Sami Al-Arian, Ussama and Sari Makdisi, @AssalRad, and others.

Here’s a thread of key moments and testimony from the day, starting with Dr. Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian and author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, who addressed Europe’s complicity, and potential power, in halting Israel’s genocidal campaign.

🎤 Ilan Pappé: “Even if American policy doesn't change tomorrow, a dramatic change in the position of the EU and of Britain can bring an immediate stop to the genocide in Gaza. It's not going to bring the liberation of Palestine… but if we are looking for urgent measure to stop the killing, the massive killing... Europe can play a far more active and decisive role.”

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The Gaza Tribunal is a civil society-led people’s tribunal to investigate and document Israel’s genocide in Gaza, modeled after tribunals like the Russell Tribunal on Vietnam and Palestine. It aims to hold states accountable where international institutions have failed. “The Palestinians became invisible to the Europeans… Their suffering is very well known, but it’s not leading to any serious contemplation.”

“Without rethinking the Zionist project as a whole, Europe will not take a tough action against Israel.”

“I don’t remember a time in history when Western European politicians were of such low caliber—totally self-centered, totally committed to one mission in life: to be re-elected.”

Dr. Ilan Pappé argues that Europe is not a bystander to Israel’s war on Gaza—it is a pillar upholding it. He says Israel must be seen as part of the Western European political order, not outside of it, and judged by the same standards. And Palestinians remain invisible in Europe, not because their suffering is hidden, but because elites refuse to confront Zionism itself.

Sarajevo Gaza Tribunal
Public Assembly Day 1 – Highlights

The Gaza Tribunal, a civil society-led “people’s tribunal,” opened its first public session in Sarajevo on May 26, 2025. It seeks to document Israeli war crimes in Gaza and address the failures of international institutions to deliver justice.

The event began with remarks from Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur and professor emeritus of international law at Princeton.

Falk said:
“It has become obvious that the UN lacks the capacity to override the genocidal support provided by the United States. The @gazatribunal draws on the legacy of the Russell Tribunal and the Iraq War Tribunal.” Falk called the tribunal “a response to the failure of organized international society to enforce international law and hold perpetrators accountable.”

The UN has been blocked by the complicity of North American and European democracies,” he added.

🚨Hamas and U.S. Reach Gaza Ceasefire “Understanding”—Israel Rejects It, U.S. Envoy Publicly Blames Hamas

Overnight, Hamas and U.S. officials reached a verbal “understanding” on the framework of a Gaza ceasefire, sources involved with the negotiations told Drop Site’s @JeremyScahill. Drop Site has been shown the full text of the document outlining the terms to which Hamas agreed. Some of these details have also been confirmed by sources interviewed by Al Jazeera and Al-Mayadeen

Scahill reports that the understanding was communicated to Hamas through Palestinian-American intermediary Bishara Bahbah in coordination with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff. Hamas accepted the terms in the document and was told the U.S. believed the framework could work—pending Israeli approval.

A senior source from Hamas told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill: "We have accepted the Witkoff proposal, 60 day temporary cease fire for releasing 10 living Israeli prisoners (5 at the beginning and 5 [at the end]), President Trump will personally announce the agreement."

But before the deal could advance, Israeli officials rushed to the media to kill it. Soon after, Witkoff publicly accused Hamas of misrepresenting the proposal—directly contradicting what sources told Drop Site had been agreed to in private discussions.

Here are the details: 🧵⬇️ 1. What Hamas Believed It Had Secured

The 13-point document shown to Drop Site, based on Hamas’s direct talks with the U.S. through intermediary Bishara Bahbah, included the following:

➤⁠ A 70-day ceasefire.

➤⁠ The release of 10 living Israeli captives in two batches, half on the first day and the other on the last day. Hamas would also release the bodies of 16 deceased captives. Hamas said it needed a two-week window to locate all burial sites.

➤⁠ A personal, public guarantee from Trump, committing to the ceasefire and the pull back of Israeli forces to their March 2 positions.

➤⁠ The resumption of unrestricted aid, including food, fuel, medicine, housing materials and construction equipment.

➤⁠ A cessation of all Israeli military operations, including surveillance activities. A cessation of all armed activities by Palestinian resistance groups.

➤⁠ Witkoff would personally, as a guarantor, sign a ceasefire deal in Doha and shake hands with Hamas’s lead negotiator, Dr. Khalil Al-Hayya.

➤⁠ Witkoff would head the U.S. delegation, which would also include Adam Boehler and Bahbah.

➤⁠ Trump would publicly thank all parties, including Hamas, reaffirming his commitment to the ceasefire and a lasting resolution between Israel and Palestine.

➤⁠ Upon signing of the ceasefire, an independent, technocratic committee of Palestinians would immediately take charge of Gaza’s governance, and reconstruction efforts would commence.

➤⁠ The U.S. and regional mediators would guarantee continued ceasefire negotiations and aid entry after 70 days, until a permanent ceasefire is reached.

➤⁠ As long as negotiations continue, the U.S. would remain committed to a ceasefire and facilitating aid entry until a permanent peace agreement is reached.

Hamas initially proposed a 90-day ceasefire, then said it would accept a 70-day version to align with the U.S. position. Israel wanted a shorter window. Hamas subsequently told Scahill it had agreed to an intial 60 day truce.

Sources told Drop Site that Qatar, particularly in the wake of Edan Alexander’s release, applied pressure on Trump to secure this agreement. As Drop Site previously reported, Witkoff promised Hamas that aid would resume to Gaza two days after Alexander’s release and Trump would call for a ceasefire and negotiations to end the war. Neither of those happened.

Trump, according to sources, has been telling regional leaders that he had given Israel two months to accomplish its objectives after Israel abandoned the January ceasefire deal, and now is the time to bring the war to an end.

THREAD:
Israel claims the strike that burned alive nine children from the Al-Najjar family in Khan Yunis yesterday was carried out in an “evacuation zone.”

The home (location circled in black below) is in Block 87—nearly 400 meters outside the latest zone the army designated for evacuation (forced displacement) in an order issued a week ago. 2/
According to Haaretz journalist Nir Hasson, the IDF claims the Al-Najjar home was covered by a “warning” issued over a month ago on April 13.

Block 87 does indeed fall in the zone specified below.

🧵THREAD:
Gaza’s temporary humanitarian aid solution (until the Israel-US backed GHF begins operations) is breaking down under a flood of chaos, corruption, and deadly Israeli violence. According to the Humanitarian Coordinator for Displaced Families in Central Gaza, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) is overseeing a deeply flawed mechanism that leaves most families hungry while risking the lives of those protecting the aid.

Here’s what he told Drop Site ⬇️ 1. Aid convoys resumed this week — but barely reached the people.

After Israel announced it would allow humanitarian aid starting May 21, just 87 trucks entered Gaza that day. Two were looted en route. The next day, only 32 trucks made it in. Of those, 19 were looted near “red zones” in Khan Younis — areas Israel designates for targeting, making safe transit nearly impossible.

🧵THREAD: Netanyahu delivered a speech at his first press conference in months yesterday, outlining his genocidal vision for Gaza, backed by the U.S. and based on what he calls the “Trump plan.” Here’s what the wanted fugitive PM said:

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Netanyahu says he’s open to a ceasefire — but only to continue bombing later. And he makes clear: Gaza will be emptied, disarmed, and controlled by Israel:

“If there is an opportunity for a temporary ceasefire to return additional hostages, I would like to emphasize: We are ready for a temporary ceasefire.”

“I am ready to end the war – according to clear conditions that will ensure the security of Israel: All of the hostages will return home. Hamas will lay down its weapons, leave power, its leadership (whoever is left) will be exiled from the Strip, Gaza will be completely demilitarized, and we will carry out the Trump plan, which is so correct and so revolutionary, and it says something simple: The residents of Gaza who wish to leave – will be able to leave.” 2
He calls this a “War of Redemption” and announces a new campaign — ‘Gideon’s Chariots’ — to seize the rest of Gaza through overwhelming force.

“Three days ago, together with the Defense Minister, and with the unanimous approval of the Security Cabinet, I ordered the opening of an additional stage in the War of Redemption.
 
I ask of you one thing – ask the residents of Sderot, Netivot, Be'er Sheva and the communities of the Western Negev: Their houses are shaking, not from Hamas missiles, but from the great firepower of the IDF.
 
Our forces are seizing more and more territory in order to sweep it free of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure.
 
At the end of the effort, all areas of the Gaza Strip will be under Israel's security control – and Hamas will be totally defeated.”

🚨URGENT: The Israeli military has just bombed the generator of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza.

Electricity has now been cut off. There are still 44 patients inside, including one in intensive care on a ventilator, all in urgent need of life-saving care.

The hospital is now relying on a damaged solar power system, which once covered 80% of its needs but can no longer meet demand after previous Israeli attacks.

Yesterday, Israeli forces laid siege to the facility and opened fire, wounding an ICU patient, before pulling back a short distance—while still maintaining the siege. More details in the linked post below. Leen is one of 55 people trapped inside the besieged Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza. She is calling on the International Red Cross to intervene and evacuate them before it’s too late, warning they could be killed by Israeli forces if help doesn’t arrive.

THREAD: “Hamas Says Witkoff Personally Promised to Lift Gaza Blockade in Exchange for Edan Alexander”

The U.S. immediately broke the deal, senior Hamas official Basem Naim told Drop Site’s @JeremyScahill.

Read on for key takeaways from Drop Site’s latest:
🧵🔽 1/ On A Direct “Deal” with Trump’s Envoy Steve Witkoff

Senior Hamas official Basem Naim said Hamas was promised that, two days after releasing U.S.-Israeli captive Edan Alexander, the U.S. would lift the Gaza blockade and push for negotiations to end the war.

“Trump will speak out thanking Hamas for its gesture, obliging Israel on the second day to open the borders and allow aid to come into Gaza, and [Trump would] call for an immediate ceasefire and to go for negotiations to end the war.”

Alexander, a U.S. citizen and Israeli soldier, was released as a “gesture of goodwill”—and an attempt to break the 76-day total blockade.

“[Trump] did nothing of this,” Naim said. “They didn’t violate the deal. They threw it in the trash.”

Breaking: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan was placed on administrative leave following reports of sexual abuse and retaliation by @DropSiteNews and WSJ.

Earlier this week, the President of ASP, which oversees the court, called on Khan to resign, but he declined.

Thread by @alicesperi here⬇️ In a statement, the court said "the Prosecutor communicated his decision to take leave until the end of the OIOS (UN Office of Internal Oversight Services) process."

Sources said he was forced to step down. The two deputy prosecutors will take over in the meantime.

1/THREAD:

What Comes Next in Gaza?

In his newest Drop Site investigation, “As Trump Declares ‘Golden Era’ in the Arab Gulf, Gaza Burns and Netanyahu Threatens to Wipe Palestinians Off the Map,” @JeremyScahill lays out three possible scenarios:

➤ Trump ends the war
➤ Trump backs the genocide
➤ A temporary truce

Details below: 🔽 2/
SCENARIO 1: Trump ends the war

Trump uses U.S. leverage to stop Israel’s genocidal assault, forces a full withdrawal, and launches serious negotiations.

▪️ This is what Hamas proposes.
▪️ It’s also what Gulf monarchs say they’ll support.
▪️ If Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize—this is his best shot.

But it’s also the least likely.

🚨BREAKING: Hamas says it is ready to release American-Israeli soldier Edan Alexander as part of steps toward a ceasefire, aid access, and an end to the war in Gaza.

The full statement by Dr. Khalil al-Hayya, head of Hamas in Gaza and its negotiating delegation, is below:
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Press Statement:

As part of the efforts being made by our mediator brothers to achieve a ceasefire, Hamas has been in contact with the US administration over the past few days. The movement has expressed a high degree of positivity, and the release of Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, a dual US citizen, will be part of the steps being taken to achieve a ceasefire, open the crossings, and allow aid and relief to reach our people in the Gaza Strip.

The movement affirms its readiness to immediately begin intensive negotiations and exert serious efforts to reach a final agreement to end the war, exchange prisoners by mutual consent, and administer the Gaza Strip to an independent, professional body. This will ensure continued calm and stability for many years, along with reconstruction and an end to the blockade.

The movement appreciates the tireless efforts made by our mediator brothers in the sisterly State of Qatar and the Arab Republic of Egypt, as well as our brothers in Türkiye, throughout the past period.

Dr. Khalil al-Hayya
Head of Hamas in Gaza
Head of the Negotiating Delegation

Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas

Sunday: 13 Dhu al-Qi'dah 1446 AH
Corresponding to: May 11, 2025 AD
Since late February Hamas has made clear it was willing to release Edan Alexander as a “goodwill gesture” toward the U.S. as part of a process where Israel is pushed to return to a deal framework that ends the genocide. Hamas officials have said they treated Alexander’s case as a high priority in the context of direct talks with U.S. officials.

BREAKING: ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan was interviewed this week in a formal investigation about alleged sexual abuse.

As the scandal unfolded over the past year, he requested a string of high-profile arrest warrants—including for Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Staff say they were taken by surprise, the cases were not yet trial ready, and that Khan used them to distract from the abuse allegations and protect his position.

Here’s what @alicesperi uncovered in a 6-month investigation for Drop Site: 🧵⬇️ 2.⁠ ⁠Karim Khan became the face of the ICC’s most explosive case ever—seeking the arrest of Israeli leaders for war crimes, including the starvation of civilians in Gaza.

But inside the court, staff say he accelerated the case to distract from a serious sexual abuse allegation, instructing his staff to do the "impossible" to get it out quickly.

“There may come a day when Israel finds itself longing for Hamas.”

In an exclusive interview with Drop Site’s @JeremyScahill, Dr. Mohammed Al-Hindi—Deputy Secretary General and political department chief of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second-largest armed resistance group in Gaza—discussed ceasefire conditions, armed resistance, and the future of Palestine.

Here’s what he said: 🧵🔽 1. On Ceasefire and Disarmament Conditions:

“We are prepared to implement a comprehensive deal—the release of all captives held in Gaza in exchange for an end to the war and withdrawal,” Al-Hindi said, affirming they remain open to a deal that is “implemented in phases.”

He rejected Israeli demands for disarmament and said Israel’s latest proposal—demanding the release of captives without any path to a long-term truce—was “as if [Israel] was saying, ‘The people of Gaza and the resistance in Gaza are sentenced to death, but we want to return the captives in order to carry out this sentence.’”

Photo: PIJ parade Khan Younis, in southern Gaza Strip, on March 2, 2023, SAID KHATIB, AFP

🚨NEW | The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) — For Aid and Occupation

A newly formed and U.S.-backed private foundation forms the backbone of Israel’s new plan to control all humanitarian aid entering Gaza—68 days into a total siege that has driven the territory into catastrophic hunger.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is being marketed as a secure and efficient alternative to traditional UN and NGO pipelines which Israel has systematically attacked and sought to dismantle. Staffed by U.S. military veterans, former officials, and corporate financiers, GHF promises to deliver aid to 1.2 million Palestinians through privately secured distribution hubs, with plans to expand to more than 2 million.

A closer look at the Foundation’s presentation documents obtained by Axios indicates it is likely to serve as a foreign-controlled proxy to militarize aid, sideline Palestinian institutions, and entrench a system of occupation under the guise of neutrality.

Here’s what to know: 🧵🔽 1. The Operational Model: Armored Aid Hubs and Biometric Control

GHF says it will establish four Secure Distribution Sites (SDS) inside Gaza, each designed to serve up to 300,000 people with food, water, hygiene kits, and medical supplies—scaling up to more than 2 million people over time. These aid hubs will be protected by private security contractors, not the Israeli military—but GHF states openly that all movement will be coordinated with the IDF and COGAT.

Aid, once inside the hub, will be distributed “with no eligibility requirements” and “based solely on need,” GHF says. But access to these hubs will first require passing through Israeli-controlled corridors—where biometric screening, facial recognition technology, and Israeli military approval apply. Once inside, aid is handed out; outside, access is filtered.

New reporting by Le Temps reveals that the broader Israeli plan will allow only 60 aid trucks per day into Gaza—ten times less than what entered during a brief ceasefire earlier this year. Armed personnel will oversee access to the aid zones, checking names and possibly screening individuals deemed “suspicious.”

Rights groups warn this creates a system of militarized aid—with the GHF footing the bill for private mercenary forces and operating under an Israeli security framework, not a humanitarian one.

Israel killed over 100 people in Gaza today.

This is what U.S.-made weapons did to people eating at a restaurant and shopping in a crowded Gaza City market. 5 were killed and several others injured—mostly women and children—after an Israeli airstrike targeted the home of the Rayan family in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.