With President Trump announcing “the war is over” on Monday and Israel and Hamas trading hostages for Palestinian prisoners, aid from the United Nations and faith-based agencies began to flow into the Gaza Strip, with hopes of stemming a humanitarian disaster.
Trump’s 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan names the United Nations, the Red Crescent, and other international institutions as the entities responsible to deliver aid to Palestinians who are in the grips of a profound humanitarian crisis. It does not cite the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a private entity created by the US and Israel to circumvent the United Nations, which the latter alleged was allowing Hamas to steal aid.
Over the past 36 hours, the United Nations, which has seen its agencies hampered or outright banned by Israel during the two-year war, resumed its work in Gaza.
