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| Army says GHF to add aid site in southern Gaza |
| 2025-08-28 |
| [IsraelTimes] The IDF says two new aid distribution centers run by the US-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will be completed in the coming days in southern Gaza, while a facility in Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood will close. Once completed, the total number of GHF centers in the Strip will rise from four to five. According to GHF, which hands out boxes of dried, uncooked food, its centers have distributed more than 140 million meals in Gaza since operations began, including over 1.5 million meals delivered today alone. The announcement comes days after global hunger monitor Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared for the first time that famine has struck the densely populated northern Gaza Strip, nearly 22 months into the war sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel. Israel swiftly rejected the finding, with the Defense Ministry body overseeing aid accusing the IPC system of relying on “biased and self-interested sources originating from Hamas.” Israel has repeatedly denied reports of mass starvation in the Strip as false narratives, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office calling the IPC famine declaration an “outright lie” and “modern blood libel.” US Ambassador Mike Huckabee said earlier this month that plans were in place for GHF to expand operations to 16 sites, with overcrowding a constant issue at existing centers. Israel plans to conquer Gaza City and force hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living there to move south, but aid groups warn such a move will worsen the Strip’s humanitarian crisis, with insufficient infrastructure to support the millions displaced by the war. “The evacuation of Gaza City is inevitable,” spokesperson Avichay Adraee wrote in Arabic on X earlier. He said Israeli forces have surveyed vast empty areas south of the city “to assist the evacuating residents as much as possible.” He said the displaced would receive space for tents, and infrastructure would be set up to distribute aid and water. |
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