Gaza: Crowds storm US-backed group's new aid distribution centre (BBC, 2025-05-27)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gep705527o
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>> Thousands of Palestinians have overrun an aid distribution site in Gaza set up by a controversial US and Israeli-backed group, a day after it began working there.

>> The GHF [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation]… aims to bypass the UN as the main supplier of aid in Gaza…

>> The UN and many aid groups have refused to co-operate with GHF's plans, which they say contradict humanitarian principles and appear to "weaponise aid".

>> On Tuesday afternoon, the Israeli military confirmed two sites … had begun distributing food to families.

>> At around the same time, Israeli and Palestinian media shared pictures showing long queues of Palestinians at the Tal al-Sultan site.

>> But just over an hour later, they began posting videos showing thousands of men, women and children streaming into the compound…

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