Aid group backed by US and Israel claims to have delivered food in Gaza
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid group, backed by Israel and the US, claims to have started delivering food to Gaza - but who's actually running it, and why? We also hear from a doctor in Gaza on the impact of the shortages, and from one of over 800 British lawyers calling on the UK government to fulfil its international legal obligations in relation to Israel.
Also in the programme: King Charles prepares to address the Canadian parliament -- in what's been seen as a show of support for the country in its dispute with President Trump; and high expectations for a new antibiotic to counter growing resistance.
(Photo: Trucks carrying aid are seen at the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza, on its Israeli side, 27 May, 2025. The US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announced it had started delivering aid to Gaza. Credit: Shafiek Tassiem/Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.5 | We're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez. |
| 0:09.8 | And we're going to start once again in Gaza and the critical issue of aid, |
| 0:14.0 | which, as we've been reporting, is in extremely short supply |
| 0:17.6 | after 11 weeks of an Israeli blockade that has only eased slightly in recent days. |
| 0:23.0 | On Monday we talked about a new group backed by Israel and the US that's charged with delivering |
| 0:27.8 | food, medicines and other essential supplies outside the usual UN mechanisms. |
| 0:33.4 | It's called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and it says it began operations on Monday. |
| 0:39.6 | But the UN and other aid agencies say its plans for food distribution hubs, |
| 0:43.7 | guarded by private security contractors, are both unworkable and contravened humanitarian principles of neutrality. |
| 0:51.8 | Indeed, the foundation's head resigned over the weekend for just that |
| 0:56.1 | reason. Well, let's talk to Neri Zilber, journalist with the Financial Times newspaper, |
| 1:00.9 | who joins us now live from Tel Aviv. Neri, good to have you with us on the program. Just briefly, |
| 1:05.9 | first of all, is there any evidence you've seen that this foundation has begun delivering aid? |
| 1:11.9 | So good afternoon, good to be back with you. Yes, we're getting images and videos this |
| 1:17.1 | afternoon within the past hour of Gazans actually lining up and receiving aid at the first |
| 1:23.1 | distribution center set up by this foundation. Really, the foundation said it had delivered aid |
| 1:29.4 | into Gaza yesterday and today said it was about to start operations. So this is what it looks like. |
| 1:35.8 | Again, it's unconfirmed visual images from inside the Gaza Strip, but it does seem like |
| 1:41.3 | Gazans have embraced it somewhat. |
| 1:44.8 | The scale of how many Gazans that remains to be seen, |
| 1:47.9 | and also the scope of this foundation's ability to get aid to the entirety of the 2 million people in the Gaza Strip also remains to be seen. |
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