Israel, Hamas Talks Drag As Aid Group Chair Tells Un To Stop Acting Like The ‘mafia’

Negotiations to unafraid a 60-day ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas look to person deed an impasse amid hopes from apical mediators, including President Donald Trump’s Middle East Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, that a woody tin beryllium reached soon.

There are respective issues that stay awesome hurdles successful securing lasting bid successful nan Gaza Strip and nan return of each nan hostages, according to aggregate sources that Fox News Digital has spoken with. 

But 1 of nan apical sticking points has reportedly been nan mobility of assistance to nan Palestinians and who precisely should beryllium distributing nan direly needed support. 

U.S. President Donald Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a meal successful nan Blue Room of nan White House connected July 7, 2025, successful Washington, DC.  (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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"This is simply a analyzable governmental situation correct successful nan mediate of a ceasefire negotiation," Chairman for nan Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) Rev. Johnnie Moore told Fox News Digital. "I understand connected nan first nighttime of nan ceasefire negotiation, 1 of nan superior issues that Hamas and their negotiators brought up was they wanted to spot nan elimination of nan GHF. 

"Which ought to show you something," he continued. "Hamas didn't want 70 cardinal meals of nutrient successful nan Gaza Strip for nan group they allege they attraction astir – this is absurd."

Following Israel’s near-three-month blockade connected assistance to nan Gaza Strip, nan GHF – a U.S. and Israeli-backed assistance system – was, successful precocious May, permitted to initiate nutrient transportation pinch nan assistance of nan Israel Defense Force (IDF) arsenic a intends to guarantee nutrient trucks were not overrun and ransacked by nan Hamas violent group. 

The GHF, which has faced stiff backlash for its divergence from accepted humanitarian assistance methods, has based on that its convoys person been acold amended secured from Hamas attacks than United Nations’ transportation trucks, and truthful ensured nan assistance has really ended up successful nan hands of Palestinian civilians. 

Hamas has agelong utilized humanitarian assistance arsenic a intends of power complete Palestinians successful nan Gaza Strip and arsenic a instrumentality for recruitment, going truthful acold arsenic to threaten starving civilians from accepting GHF nutrient assistance for their families successful precocious May, telling them they "will salary nan price, and we will return nan basal measures."

The GHF has delivered immoderate 70 cardinal meals to betwixt 800,000 and 1 cardinal Palestinians, Moore confirmed. 

But reports person many times surfaced claiming that Palestinians flocking to nan 4 distribution sites person faced insurmountable dangers and connected Friday nan U.N. Human Rights Office said it believed astir 800 group had been killed adjacent assistance sites. 

Palestinians successful Gaza get assistance from nan U.S. and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation)

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The agency based successful Geneva said it had recorded immoderate 615 group were killed successful nan vicinity of GHF sites and 183 adjacent different assistance convoys, and according to spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani, nan mostly of these deaths were caused by "gunshot injuries."

The U.N. did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s questions astir whether it was nan IDF aliases Hamas that was connected nan firing extremity of nan gun, and whether these deaths occurred arsenic a nonstop consequence of civilians seeking aid, chaotic eruptions that ensued extracurricular of distribution centers, aliases if these were deaths occurred amid nan continued warfare arsenic civilians were successful nan process of heading to distributions centers. 

The IDF earlier this period said that pursuing an investigation into civilian casualties reported astatine assistance distribution sites, it had issued caller orders to its South Command based connected "lessons learned."

The GHF this week announced a 2nd shape successful its assistance transportation strategy that could little nan threats civilians look erstwhile seeking aid, by distributing supplies straight done organization leaders crossed Gaza – meaning location could beryllium little recreation progressive for civilians successful need.

But nan GHF besides fervently rejects nan U.N. decease toll figures and Moore maintains that nary deaths person occurred connected aliases adjacent their distribution sites.

"The U.N. is lying. They're conscionable lying. They're taking statistic that originate from nan Hamas-controlled Health Ministry successful Gaza, and they're sharing those statistic without immoderate scrutiny astatine all," Moore told Fox News Digital.

IDF soldiers fighting successful nan Netzarim Corridor successful Gaza. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

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"We cognize Hamas has routinely lied astir civilian decease numbers from nan opening of this conflict. We cognize that Hamas doesn't separate betwixt nan decease of Hamas militants and betwixt civilians, and…we cognize that from nan very opening of nan cognition of GHF, Hamas made an intentional determination that nan champion measurement to spot nan extremity of GHF was to opportunity that our sites were these decease traps," he added.

The U.N., connected nan different hand, maintains that it vets its ain informants and obtains grounds done "various reliable sources, including medical, human rights and humanitarian organizations."

But critics of nan U.N. proceed to mobility its trustworthiness pursuing nan evident find of astatine slightest 9 labor of nan United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), who were reportedly involved successful nan Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks connected Israel, which saw nan decease of immoderate 1,200 Israelis and nan abductions of different 250 – 50 of whom stay hostage. 

Though Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General, terminated those labor successful October 2024, location remains unfastened hostility betwixt nan U.N. agency and Israel, and now nan GHF.

Lazzarini, on pinch much than 200 different humanitarian organizations, has besides personally called for nan removal of nan GHF from nan Gaza Strip.

Moore accused nan U.N. of employing "mafia"-like strategies by ganging up connected nan assistance programme contempt nan occurrence it has seen by supplying millions of meals. 

Palestinians transportation assistance supplies from nan U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, successful Khan Younis, successful nan confederate Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025. (REUTERS/Hatem Khaled)

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"We want to activity pinch these organizations, but alternatively of engaging pinch us, what they've been doing is they've been moving down nan scenes to sabotage us," Moore said. "There's nary different measurement to picture it. The U.N. is behaving for illustration a mafia."

While nan U.N. has not officially called for nan removal of nan GHF, it has criticized nan organization’s "militarized" attack to delivering aid, which is not viewed arsenic acceptable by nan Sphere Association, which sets nan world standards for humanitarian aid.

Both nan GHF and nan U.N. person said much assistance is not only needed, but it would thief destruct nan aggravated information risks affiliated pinch obtaining humanitarian supplies. 

"I person been very clear that nan U.N. cannot do humanitarian activity unsocial successful Gaza, we request partners," U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told Fox News Digital. "All that we inquire is that these partners run nether nan globally accepted humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence."

Though some sides yet person nan aforesaid goal, location appears to beryllium an expanding impasse complete really to supply unchangeable assistance for Palestinians who proceed to unrecorded successful highly dire situations.

"My mission, and nan ngo of GHF is really, really simple. It's conscionable to provender people. And it should not beryllium arsenic arguable arsenic it has been," Moore said. "My liking has ever been successful nan successful nan ‘day after’. We person to do both."

Displaced Palestinian children hold to person a free repast from a kindness nutrient distribution halfway successful Gaza City, bluish Gaza, connected Tuesday, May 27, 2025.  (Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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"We person to scheme for nan ‘day after’, and we person to reside nan emergency, and it's clip for nan United Nations to extremity playing governmental games," he continued. "We tin lick nan problems together.

"But we person to make nan determination to activity together. GHF has already made that decision, and we've reiterated again and again and again that we want to activity pinch nan world organization to scope these people. The determination is now theirs, and we'll beryllium present waiting, our manus extended," Moore said.