GHF offers to deliver UN aid for free as aid piles at Kerem Shalom Crossing - Jerusalem Post Staff

 

by Jerusalem Post Staff

The offer comes as international organizations, including the UN, warn of growing hunger in the Palestinian enclave.

 

Empty UNRWA and World Food Program trucks head to the Kerem Shalom crossing to collect limited humanitarian aid and fuel, in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2025

(photo credit: ABED RAHIM KHATIB/FLASH90)

 

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) offered to deliver some of the 2,500 tons of food waiting on 950 trucks at the Kerem Shalom Crossing, which the UN has failed to deliver into Gaza, on Wednesday.

The offer comes as international organizations, including the UN, warn of growing hunger in the Strip.

“We’ve been sounding the alarm for weeks on the need for more aid in Gaza while we’ve seen aid by the UN and other organizations being piled near the borders but not being delivered,” said GHF Interim Director John Acree.

“Our top priority is feeding the people of Gaza, and we’re prepared to adjust our supply chains, work with the UN or other teams to organize the packaging and transport, and distribute it to those in need, or we can work with organizations to provide security to ensure food reaches its intended destination. We are ready and able to start today.” 

Attempts to work with the UN to deliver aid

GHF’s Executive Chairman Johnnie Moore also wrote to UN Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher on Tuesday, asserting that “Our door remains open. We are prepared to support the safe and accountable delivery of UN aid to Gazans who desperately need it. But time is short. People are starving, and food is sitting idle out of their reach. We cannot let politics stand in the way.”

Empty UNRWA and World Food Program trucks head to the Kerem Shalom crossing to collect limited humanitarian aid and fuel, in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2025 (credit: ABED RAHIM KHATIB/FLASH90)

On Wednesday alone, GHF delivered 41 truckloads of aid, which amounted to 2,273,040 meals. UN officials reportedly promised the IDF earlier this week to make a greater effort to deliver the waiting aid. 

The UN’s failure to deliver aid comes after Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups stole multiple convoys. 

The Gazan terror leadership has been repeatedly seen stealing humanitarian aid in the enclave and, since the US-backed GHF took over aid distribution, targeting humanitarian workers and sites.

The IDF said on Tuesday that there is no famine in Gaza as of yet.

A top IDF official met with leading UN bureaucrats regarding the issue on Tuesday, demanding to know how they could accuse Israel of causing famine in Gaza, which, again, has not happened yet but might shortly should the UN continue to abandon its trucks, while simultaneously leaving the aid trucks to sit there without distributing the food.

All of this comes amid worldwide media coverage, based on Hamas Health Ministry reports, claiming that 15 Palestinians have died of starvation in the last 24 hours and that 600,000 people in Gaza – nearly one third of the population – are suffering from malnutrition.

Yonah Jeremy Bob contributed to this report.

Jerusalem Post Staff

Source: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-862122

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