AP PHOTOS: UN agencies warn that Israel’s plans for aid distribution will endanger lives in Gaza
Palestinians struggle to obtain donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — International aid agencies warn that plans presented by Israel to control aid distribution in Gaza will only increase suffering and death in the devastated Palestinian territory. They called on Friday for an end to Israel’s total blockade of Gaza that has blocked all food and other supplies from reaching its 2.3 million people for nearly 10 weeks.
The U.S. ambassador to Israel said that a new aid distribution system was being launched with deliveries to begin “very soon.” But Ambassador Mike Huckabee gave few details. A U.S.-backed group has put forward an aid distribution plan along the lines of that demanded by Israel.
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Ward Nar, left, reacts as she speaks with the photographer after returning empty-handed from attempting to receive donated food for her family, including her husband Mohammed Zaharna (center right) and their children, Sally (right) and Raed, at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Ward Nar, left, reacts as she speaks with the photographer after returning empty-handed from attempting to receive donated food for her family, including her husband Mohammed Zaharna (center right) and their children, Sally (right) and Raed, at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians struggle to obtain donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinians struggle to obtain donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinian children scrape a pot for leftover food after all meals were distributed at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Palestinian children scrape a pot for leftover food after all meals were distributed at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A boy holds an empty pot over his head as he waits for donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A boy holds an empty pot over his head as he waits for donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Nevin Qassim, a displaced Palestinian woman purchases ground lentils as a substitute for making bread due to a shortage of flour in the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis, on Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Karem Hanna)
Nevin Qassim, a displaced Palestinian woman purchases ground lentils as a substitute for making bread due to a shortage of flour in the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis, on Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Karem Hanna)
Nevin Qassim, a displaced Palestinian woman, prepares ground lentil dough as a substitute for bread due to a shortage of flour in the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis, on Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Karem Hanna)
Nevin Qassim, a displaced Palestinian woman, prepares ground lentil dough as a substitute for bread due to a shortage of flour in the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis, on Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Karem Hanna)
Nevin Qassim, a displaced Palestinian woman, prepares ground lentil dough as a substitute for bread due to a shortage of flour in the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis, on Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Karem Hanna)
Nevin Qassim, a displaced Palestinian woman, prepares ground lentil dough as a substitute for bread due to a shortage of flour in the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis, on Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Karem Hanna)
Displaced Palestinians fill jerrycans with water from a pipe at a tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Displaced Palestinians fill jerrycans with water from a pipe at a tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Sunday, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A woman shows up her empty pot after a community kitchen ran out of donated food to distribute in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A woman shows up her empty pot after a community kitchen ran out of donated food to distribute in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Raed Zaharna, right, and his sister Sally sit in their family tent after their mother, Ward, returned empty-handed from trying to receive donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Raed Zaharna, right, and his sister Sally sit in their family tent after their mother, Ward, returned empty-handed from trying to receive donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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