In wake of mayhem at distribution sites, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation denies claims of injuries or deaths during handouts

People stampeded and shots were fired as a Trump-backed plan to distribute food in Gaza at sites guarded by armed contractors got started.

A U.S.- and Israeli-backed private organization is overhauling the aid distribution system in Gaza. The United Nations says it undermines humanitarian principles.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A crowd was fired upon while overrunning a new aid-distribution site in the Gaza Strip set up by an Israeli and U.S.-backed foundation, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding 48 others, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Wednesday.

In the southern Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike on Bani Suheila, east of Khan Yunis. Another was killed, and one injured, in an Israeli airstrike targeting the al-Sikka area in central Gaza.

A U.S. and Israeli-backed humanitarian aid effort for Gaza says it's started distributing desperately needed food. The U.N. calls it a "distraction from what is actually needed."

President Donald Trump has slashed US aid and vowed a major rethink on helping the world. A controversial effort to bring food to Gaza may offer clues on what's to come.Administered by contracted US security with Israeli troops at the perimeter,

A video from April 2024 showing humanitarian aid airdropped near a Gaza beach has been miscaptioned in online posts as footage of China delivering aid to Gaza in May amid an Israeli blockade that began in March.