Washington (AP)-A group led by (*30*) has asked the Trump administration to start with initial $ 30 million so that according to three US officials and the application of the organization for the money they can continue their strongly certified and Israeli aid distribution in Gaza.
This application received by The Associated Press also offers some of the first financial details on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and its work in the territory. This includes a projection of a monthly budget of 150 million US dollars as soon as the current auxiliary areas of the group have fully aligned -an amount of 1.8 billion US dollars a year.
The foundation states that it has made millions of meals available to the Palestinians in southern Gaza since the end of May, since the blockade and the military campaign of Israel have driven the gaza strip to the edge of a famine.
However, the efforts have conducted almost daily fatal shootings by Palestinians who tried to achieve the distribution points. Large humanitarian groups also accuse the basis of working with Israel’s goals in the 20-month war against Hamas in a way that violates humanitarian principles.
The group’s funding application was presented to the US agency for international development, according to the US officials who were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The application was processed this week as potentially the last acts of the agency before the Republican administration USAID was accepted into the Foreign Ministry as part of the deep reductions in foreign support.
Two of the officials stated that the government had decided to award the money. They said that the processing had little for checking and examining, which is usually necessary before Washington grants an organization of foreign support.
In a letter that was submitted as part of the application on Thursday, the secretary of the Humanitarian Foundation, Loik Henderson, the Gaza Humanitrian Foundation, said his organization was “grateful for the opportunity to maintain and scale life -saving operations in Gaza.”
Neither the Ministry of Foreign Affairs nor Henderson answered inquiries about comments on Saturday.
According to Israel, the foundation is the linchpin of a modern auxiliary system to control the United Nations, which Israel claims, has been infiltrated by Hamas and other humanitarian groups. The apply of fixed locations by the foundation in southern Gaza is in accordance with the plan of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to apply assist to concentrate the more than 2 million people of the territory in the south, and frees Israel to fight Hamas elsewhere.
Auxiliary workers fear that it is a step towards another public goal of Netanyahu and Palestinians from Gaza removed in “voluntary” migrations, which auxiliary groups and human rights organizations say that he would make up forced exits.
The United Nations and many leading non -profit groups accuse the basis of getting into the auxiliary distribution with little transparency or humanitarian experience without commitment to the principles of neutrality and operational independence in war zones.
Since the beginning of the organization, several hundred Palestinians have been killed and hundreds were wounded in almost daily shootings when they tried to achieve helping agencies, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Witnesses say that Israeli troops regularly fire massive barriers in the direction of the crowd to control them.
The Israeli military has denied dismissal to civilians. It is said that in several cases it fired warning shots and fired directly to some “suspects”, ignored warnings and approached its strength.
It is unclear who finances the modern operation in Gaza. No donor has reported. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said last week that the United States did not finance it.
In documents that support their application, the group announced that they received almost 119 million US dollars for May from “other government dispensers” but gave no details. It expects $ 38 million from these non-specific government donors for June, in addition to the hoped-for $ 30 million from the USA.
The application shows no financing of private philanthropy or another source.
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AP -Diplomatic writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report.
