The United States government has distanced itself from Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s (GHF) operations, after the aid group’s initial attempts to distribute food in a famine zone outside Rafah in the Gaza Strip turned to chaos.
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce made clear in fresh statements that “This is not a state department effort. We don’t have a plan.” She added that “I’m not going to speculate or to say what they should or should not do.”
There’s tension and a bit of a standoff between the GHF and UN groups, with the latter fiercely criticizing the lack of experience or track record of the former, which appears to have been authorized by Israel based largely on the founder’s close relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The use of American mercenaries to protect GHF aid sites inside Gaza has also proven ultra-controversial. And matters aren’t going to be helped by the new footage which has emerged showing US contractors throwing stun grenades at Palestinians along a security fence.
“Footage circulated by Palestinian media purportedly shows members of an American security company throwing stun grenades at Gazans outside an aid distribution site in the Netzarim Corridor area,” TOI reports.
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