we have approved funding for $30 million to the gaza humanitarian foundation track record disturbing over b,46 million distributed to date while preventing, looting is absolutely critical and should be commended and supported from day one we said we are open to create a solution provides aid to those in god is support is the latest consideration of president trump secretary rubio's pursuit of peace in the region. >> this is a technical question, do you happen to know where that money coming from. >> at this point i do not take it back get, are you aware of any reps being issued today. >> at the time i have nothing to announce that effect. >> so you guys have a july 1 deadline. there's an injunction by federal judge that effectively blocks the department implementing layoffs. in this quote is potentially way so tell us if we don't hear from stories by july 4 tuesday, the state department still going to go ahead with the option? >> i'm not going to speculate about plans for the department to violate court order. >> so you are saying so this between now and july 1 does not weigh in on t

in an article for fox news, he called this a week of "success" for the gaza humanitarian foundation, attacking "pearl-clutching activist humanitarians" and claiming, without evidence, the established aid system was corrupt. the gaza humanitarian foundation press released pictures of palestinians thanking president trump. but the main ingredients of this aid are its politics, from a group opponents say is shrouded in secrecy, weaponising food and shutting out those who could get to the most needy in gaza. tom bateman, bbc news, delaware. president trump says his chinese counterpart, xi jinping has agreed to restart the flow of rare earth minerals and magnets from china - and that the two are very far advanced on a trade deal. he was speaking aboard air force one on friday. it comes as trade representatives of the two countries get ready for talks in london on monday. president trump initially ordered tariffs of 145% on some items from china, but under a truce that was struck in may, the us lowered those import taxes on beijing to 30%, to allow for talks. and finally, a new study has fo

to verify in some cases uh... but we are hearing conflicting reports, as you say, the gaza humanitarian foundation who took over the majority of aid in gaza in late may, after this three months bloccade uh, say that this is disinformation. i spoke to an israeli government spokesperson yesterday who told me that these claims of hundreds of people dying were hamas propaganda and untruths, but we have heard these figures repeated not just by the hamas run health ministry in gaza, but also by the un, by medics, by eye-witnesses, we've seen photos and videos, of people uh being carried out of scenes, covered in blood, wounded, but also uh videos where you can hear shots being fired in the background. now of course, as i say, the gaza humanitarian foundation deny these reports, but it is also worth stressing that the himasron health ministry's figures are also used by the un, by diplomats, and according to reports in israel, israel's own intelligence at times, but as i say, without being able to get in ourselves, it is of course very difficult to provide firsth testimony of what is going on on the... ye

in an article for fox news, he called this a week of "success" for the gaza humanitarian foundation, attacking "pearl-clutching activist humanitarians" and claiming, without evidence, the established aid system was corrupt. the gaza humanitarian foundation press released pictures of palestinians thanking president trump. but the main ingredients of this aid are its politics, from a group opponents say is shrouded in secrecy, weaponising food and shutting out those who could get to the most needy in gaza. tom bateman, bbc news, delaware. we repeatedly asked to interview both the gaza humanitarian foundation's spokesman and the chairman, johnnie moore, and they declined. china has developed a fleet of driverless trucks. the hgvs are delivering goods between beijing and tianjin port. they represent the extreme end of a technology, which is accelerating fast. our china correspondent stephen mcdonell joined the convoy. these trucks are driving on a public road, without a human being behind the wheel. driverless transport company pony.ai was given official permission to film a video showing

proboscis in the gaza humanitarian foundations i was saying able to deliver aid in awaits not being delivered by hamas but the story get here as i said is 46 million meals per that is the story here in the fact we are encouraging others to step up and support this. themi press has been clear is looking for those greatest solutions to get aid into gaza. the state department. as an american security used to work for the organization. wrote his experience describes how contract to work for gaza. themselves not getting enough sleep. not getting enough to eat. some of the contracts for picking up food quickly and want to reach you women trying to pick up they have to go. they desperately needed it and did not take it. it was absolutely horrific. what do you say the story they are getting millions of meals out. the other side of it is there are many more people who are not getting food and it's not enough food. the security situation on the ground of the stories come out about the people where there is jeff experiences some these contr

opening fire on people waiting for aid at these new aid distribution sites run by the gaza humanitarian foundation, which is this new foundation run by the us and israel to essentially bypass the un as the biggest provider of aid in gaza. now, we've had also a spokesman from the al-awda hospital in the region saying that they received 23 bodies, as well as more than 100 people who were injured after this incident. and we have seen graphic images from the hospital of bodies lying on the floor as they received casualties from this incident. as i say, this has been now a daily occurrence at some of these sites. although the gaza humanitarian foundation has denied that any shooting happened. as you say, ione, this has been repeated almost daily. but what's the israeli explanation for what happened today? is there any indication that they may listen to those appeals coming from the un and humanitarian agencies to change this controversial aid distribution system? well, the response we've had from the israeli military today is very similar to the response that they have given on other occasions. they sa

the us will give $30 million to the gaza humanitarian foundation, a us and israeli-backed body set up to distribute aid in gaza. it is a controversial foundation. it is set up to replace united nations aid agency on the ground, which israel has banned. it's the first known direct us funding for the group. the ghf, backed by armed us contractors and israeli troops, has been operating in the strip since the end of may following an eleven-week aid blockade by israel. on tuesday, the un said more than 400 palestinians had been killed in recent weeks by the israeli military, while trying to collect food at the distribution sites. let me show you where we are. the gaza border is just up the road, we have been stopped by the side of the road because there is an israeli military checkpoint which we are not allowed to show you and we cannot go any further than this. we will be broadcasting throughout the day on bbc news from various sites along the crossing to bring into focus the gaza story which has been somewhat out of the media spotlight during their israel and iran war. joining me now is

we've also been very clear that this so-called gaza humanitarian foundation is not something that we're cooperating with, because it does not meet our humanitarian principles. georgia tacey is the response director in gaza for save the chldren. she is currently in dier al balah. thanks for joining us. it is a complex wall zone because hamas is embedded within the civilian population -- war. is there any method that involves the israelis near the distribution? no. save the children and the rest of the ngo community have been very clear, controlling power should not be involved in the distribution of any kind of aid, especially in a population that has been terrorised for over 18 months with constant bombardment on the authorities. there also no need for us rely on one small arguably inexperienced agency that has reduced the 400 sites of distribution we were using several months ago, to only four. it is a false choice to say it is either no aid or going through this mechanism because we all know we have thousands of trucks outside the border filled with food and medical supplies, but it i

this new aid mechanism, the gaza humanitarian foundation. there was some confusion earlier in the day whether it was going to open two of its sites that were open on thursday. they did open, but we heard from the gaza humanitarian foundation later that they closed earlier than they were meaning to, because, they said, it was overcrowded and it was unsafe to continue. so about one third of the food that it had delivered the previous day was given to palestinians, so there are still big questions over that mechanism. the gaza humanitarian foundation says the equivalent of eight million meals have been handed out to people since it began operations last week. the us-israeli backed group has been heavily criticised by the un for politicising aid, and, as tom bateman reports, what we actually know about the organisation largely remains a mystery. the future of gaza currently rests in rural america. the foundation supposed to feed its population was registered here, two weeks after donald trump took office. i went to try and find it. for the rooms,

its efforts to get humanitarian assistance into gaza is still being severely hampered as israel and america prioritise their new mechanism, the so-called gaza humanitarian foundation, around which of course there has been such chaos and those killings in recent days around those aid distribution points. so i think america using its veto today highlights the really serious divide now in global opinion over that issue. the american acting ambassador said that that mechanism was the only way forward because it kept aid out of the hands of hamas. while the united nations, of course, disputes that. it says there is no evidence that that is happening, that the sequestering of aid by hamas is happening in any sort of significant volume. and you had the rest of the united nations security council lining up against the us on the other side. when you have the uk ambassador, for example, using words like intolerable to describe the situation in gaza and describing the killings of those palestinians in recent days as inhumane, it really highlights just how stark that division is and how much it has grown in recent months. john sat with in new york on the un resolution which i

the incident happened around a kilometre from the site run by the gaza humanitarian foundation, or ghf, which is designed to replace un agencies in delivering aid. gaza's hamas-run civil defence agency says civilians were fired on by tanks, quadcopter drones, and helicopters. the israel defense forces said its troops fired warning shots after identifying suspects who they said moved towards them "deviating from the designated access routes". the ghf's aid system requires civilians to go to distribution centers in areas controlled by the israeli military. the previous un system handed out aid within communities. the ghf has come under sharp criticism from un bodies and the wider international community for "weaponising" aid and creating a system that goes against humanitarian principles. responding to today's incident, ghf said: "while the aid distribution was conducted safely and without incident at our site today, we understand that the idf is investigating whether a number of civilians were injured after moving beyond the designated safe corridor and into a closed military zone. this

in an article for fox news, he called this a week of "success" for the gaza humanitarian foundation, attacking "pearl-clutching activist humanitarians" and claiming, without evidence, the established aid system was corrupt. the gaza humanitarian foundation press released pictures of palestinians thanking president trump. but the main ingredients of this aid are its politics, from a group opponents say is shrouded in secrecy, weaponising food and shutting out those who could get to the most needy in gaza. tom bateman, bbc news, delaware. we repeatedly asked to interview both the gaza humanitarian foundation's spokesman and the chairman, johnnie moore, and they declined. let's get some of the day's other news now. the un has called on the us to lift its sanctions against four judges from the international criminal court. volker turk warned that attacks on judges for doing their job ran counter to the rule of law. the us imposed the sanctions for what it has called "illegitimate actions" targeting the us and israel, including the arrest warrant for israeli prime minister benjamin netanya

i can talk you through one particular series of videos that the gaza humanitarian foundation has sharedwith us, now this is cctv footage from one of their age distribution sites near rafa in southern gaza. we have we can see people running, people running away from, we don't do what we can hear, because we can't hear any audio on this, but at one particular point you can see what is tracer fire. that is, gunfire. those are rounds of gunfire that are particularly illuminated as we see them. elsewhere, we've also seen videos from... which also appear to show people running away and cowering. and you can hear gunfire on those as well. what's made are reporting particularly difficult, is that there are two separate incidents, it appears. different reports. one is near rafa and one is near their nets are in corridor. these are two separate end to dense, so when we are trying to verify these facts, we know where the distribution site is, and we can verify that cctv footage, but it's worth caveat inc that is the sources are from one place, from gaza humanitarian foundation, they've asked us mo

for nearly gaza humanitarian foundation in rafa. we have got reports about that and earlier there were three people killed near another centre in central gaza near a settlement. that is in the last hour. that is ten people killed in gaza city near a school sheltering people. but today and yesterday, there were 17 people altogether killed. many of them near to the humanitarian foundation centres. give us a sense of what is happening with the power vacuum in certain areas of gaza, because there are different armed groups now that are filling that vacuum and also, taking over in areas that were previous hamas stronghold. can you give us the picture as far as that is concerned. look, before the war between iran and israel started, i was able to speak to a significant officer in gaza, and very high up level officer. he said almost 80% of its capability to control gaza, the most significant incident was yesterday when 20 or 30 armed people from a clan in the area had attacked the hospital. they accuse the hamas police unit of killing one o

the company and the gaza humanitarian foundation are on the ground inside gaza, along with these armedn private security contractors. >> here they come. >> reporter: seen and heard here at a humanitarian aid distribution hub, where for three consecutive days, there were scenes of chaos and death nearby. the bodies of those killed and injured on sunday can be seen lying on the sand as the sun rose. the hamas-run ministry of health say, in total, over 100 palestinians have been killed, and hundreds more wounded since then, with almost all suffering from bullet or shrapnel wounds. ghf and the israeli military originally denied that any violence occurred, but in a later statement, the idf said it targeted "a few individuals who posed a security threat." but a cbs news team was at the funeral of a mother of eight, reem akhras, who was shot dead on her way to retrieve an aid parcel from a ghf hub this morning. her children now simply inconsolable. >> john: imtiaz, what more have you been able to find out, if you have, about the gaza humanitarian foundation? >> reporter: well, what we >> solu

a un resolution demanding an immediate seizfire, and instead called for supporting its gaza humanitarian foundation, even though eight centers, according to the honor chief, have become a death trap for starving civilians in gaza. in gaza ravaged by israel's genocidal blockade, the us-backed gaza humanitarian foundations takeover avaid. have only deep into catastrophe under the ghf mechanism, it is no longer humanitarian concept, but a brutal symbol of control, an inevitable killing. ahmadjar, press tv. well on a day meant for celebrations and joy for muslims, gaza morns under relentless israeli air strikes. palestinians are facing starvation as israel blocks aid and massacres civilians at us administered food distribution points. let's hear more about the plite directly from gazens. supposed to be in amusement parks, gardens and parks, carrying their toys and wearing eat clothes, however we are pulling our children out from under the rubble and torn pieces, eat clothes have become the white shroud and this is due to the occupation, i live here in a tent behind the bathrooms, i came from jabalia an

since this new mechanism under this organisation backed by israel and the you yes, the gaza humanitarian foundation began to supply food in gaza. this is more than a week now and the past three days we've seen deadly incidents. on sunday there are reports from health officials with at least 31 people were killed. today the figure is around 27. we've heard so many eyewitness reports from members of the families of those who have been wounded or killed in these instances, which have clearly taken place due to the way the aide is being distributed. the fact that people have to gather in the early hours of the morning in thousands to try to get to the front if they possibly can to get this limited amount of aid now being supplied from a very limited amount of supply sites. these instances of all happened in rafah in the south of gaza. people who have been speaking, some have said members of families that it's too dangerous, we can't do this again. others have said there isn't any other alternative, they have to keep coming each day and hoping that they can bypass the risk, the dangers and get some food

blocking despite the so-called resumption or the humanitarian operations carried by the gaza humanitarian foundation or their shelter, but the very limited humanitarian facilities still operating in gaza as happening to the naserf hospital in januris that is only being surrounded by bombs, only being surrounded by the air strikes by the occupation and only dinding the medical personnel unable to provide the least that they can offer, even baby formulas are now denied to them and have run out of it, can provide the thousands of babies with our... or the different hospitals of the gaz strip with their needs of milk formulas as they endurence subjected to this inhumane blockade exactly. in khan news like to thank you as always for joining us and against viewers, the genocide in gaza is continuing unabated, condemnations, it's time for actions, not condemnations, and thank you very much again. well, the israeli regime has once again targeted palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in gaza. at least 35 palestinians were killed in the latest strike that took place near the nazarim corridor. israeli atta

speaking to the bbc earlier today, the head of the gaza humanitarian foundation, that is the israeli and us body which distributes aid in gaza, denied that hundred. of deaths from shootings are linked to its aid distribution centers. it all comes after the united states has said that it is giving 30 million dollars to the gaza humanitarian foundation, a very controversial body which began operations a month ago. well, on tuesday, the un said that some 400 people in gaza had been killed in recent weeks, many of them queing at sites run by the gaza. humanitarian foundation, my colleagues at bbc verify, that is our fact checking department, have reviewed dozens of videos of people being gun down a t a distribution point, all of them have come in since the gaza humanitarian foundation began operating one month ago. here's bbc verifies, merlin thomas. after a month of us and israeli backed operations in gaza, there have been repeated reports of killings of palestinians trying to access aid. we've been investigating footage from gaza to see. just how dangerous it's become for palestinians.

today, the head of the gaza humanitarian foundation told the bbc his operation was not connected to the hundreds of deaths, and accused the un of misinformation. we're not denying that there are casualties in the gaza strip. we're not even denying that there are casualties within proximity to aid distribution sites. what we're saying is 100% of those casualties are being attributed to close proximity to ghf. that is not true. 100% of the casualties are being attributed to the idf. as best as we can tell, that's also not true. tonight, israel's army strongly rejected a local media report that soldiers had been told to fire on unarmed crowds, and said incidents were being examined. its prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said the media accusations were contemptible blood libels and malicious falsehoods designed to defame the idf. after a two-month israeli aid blockade, hunger drives many decisions in gaza, drives crowds to surge towards the promise of food, risking death to stay alive. lucy williamson, bbc news, jerusalem. earlier i spoke to stephane dujarric, the spokesperson for un secr

working with the gaza humanitarian foundation to find a better way for it to distribute aid?been invited by the israeli authorities and the jh f to be briefed on their system. we attended those meetings. we are not working with them. the israelis have allowed us for the last two weeks or so a trickle of trucks to come in. we have tried to use that system as much as possible but are having great challenges, with looting from armed gangs but also people who are desperate to get food, who have helped themselves to the flatbed trucks we are using. we want to work based on humanitarian principles of impartiality, independence, and getting aid to those who need it. for three days running, we have seen people getting killed while trying to access food. sumi: before we go, we have seen a statement from the gaza humanitarian foundation saying that tomorrow, june 4, distribution centers will be closed for update, organization, and efficiency improvement work. what do you make of that? >> we are not here to judge them and say i told you so. there is for us a lack of clarity of houthi --

two aid distribution sites operated by the controversial gaza humanitarian foundation resumed following deadly shootings near its facilities. our middle east editor sebastian usher has more on the aid situation in the territory. the aid situation in gaza remains dire, but there's been a glimmer of better news, perhaps, in that the gaza humanitarian foundation, which is this new mechanism that's been backed by israel and the us - the aim, from their perspective, to try to avoid hamas taking the aid so that it can get directly to the palestinians - this had run into huge problems. three days in which palestinians are queuing up in the early hours of the morning had been killed and had been wounded in large numbers, eyewitnesses, multiple eyewitnesses saying that this was from gunfire from israeli troops. denials mostly from the israeli army. on most of those counts, though it did concede on tuesday morning, troops did open fire on what they said were suspects diverging from the main route and posing a threat. for a day, the gaza humanitarian foundation closed its operations - no sites wer

issues continue for the palestinians, a desperate situation, this new aid mechanism the gaza humanitarian foundation. there was confusion earlier in the day whether it would open two of the sites open on thursday, they did open, but we heard from the gaza humanitarian foundation later that they close earlier than they were meaning to because there was overcrowding and that it was unsafe to continue. so about a third of the food that it had delivered the previous day was given to palestinians. and so there are so big questions over that mechanism. there was also a warning from the israeli army to palestinians who might be heading towards an aid distribution centres telling them they should only do that essentially in the hours when there is light, so from six in the morning until six in evening and that any other time that they are moving, they are heading towards any the centres, it should be regarded as too dangerous to do so. that raises big questions over how palestinians will be able to make their way to these distribution centres if they are going to open up early in the morning. it's intensive

this comes as the head of the new gaza humanitarian foundation has denied that hundreds of deaths from shootings are linked to its aid distribution centres. johnnie moore, an american evangelical pastor, has told the bbc that international agencies, including the un, were spreading disinformation. but he also admitted his organisation is currently unable to feed all gazans. the us and israeli-backed group has faced severe criticism since its formation just over a month ago. today, the medical charity medecins sans frontiers said the foundation's relief effort should be halted, branding it as "slaughter, masquerading as humanitarian aid". it comes as the us revealed that it would give $30 million in funding to the aid group. it's the first direct funding coming from the us since the ghf took over operations following israel's 11-week blockade of gaza. my colleague tim franks from the bbc world service radio programme newshour asked johnnie moore what he's doing to try to prevent deaths around their aid distribution sites. we're not actually sure that all of this information of a signifi

and more than a hundred injured following disputed reports about an incident near the gaza humanitarian foundation compound in raffa. the israely military says it did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the distribution site. the bbc. has asked the gaza humanitarian foundation for an interview, but it's declined our requests. israel doesn't allow the bbc or other international media to report on the ground in gaza, but we do rely on trusted local freelancers sending us footage. well, our reporter merlin thomas has been following the story for bbc verify. there are lots of claims and counterclaim swirling around this one particular incident near raffa in southern gaza. and we've been looking. into footage, into audio, into witness testimony as well, to see what we can piece together. now i can talk you through one particular series of videos that the gaza humanitarian foundation has shared with us. now this is cctv footage from one of their aid distribution sites near raffa in southern gaza, and we verified where this is, this is in their distribution site, and what we can see is w

the gaza humanitarian foundation also hasn't given us, as yet, any clear information from their side of what happened. but we have seen incidents over the past few days, since this new mechanism was set up, of there being mass casualty incidents amongst the thousands of palestinians who've gone to these distribution centres in desperate search for food, for supplies. sebastian, do we know how much aid is getting in? we know it's a desperate situation and this new mechanism is in place, but how much is getting through to the people who so desperately need it? well, the figures we're hearing from the gaza humanitarian foundation, are saying that millions of individual meals have been delivered over the past few days. we were hearing in the first two or three days of the operation, that 100 trucks or so were going in. they've said that has now increased. we don't know the exact numbers. we don't have a clear indication from on the ground, but this is what we're hearing from the gaza humanitarian foundation. the foundation has also taken to task the media for suggesting that incidents li

now, on may the 26th, the privately run gaza humanitarian foundation began its operations. this controversial new scheme, which bypasses the un's operations, was introduced after israel lifted its 11 week blockade on aid. there are three here in the south and one here in the north, near an israeli security zone known as the netzarim corridor. the distance between them sometimes forces palestinians to make long journeys, and in a war zone that comes with added danger. in statements over the past month, the idf has repeatedly said it's fired warning shots at individuals who they described as suspects or said posed a threat. now, in videos we verified, you can see hundreds of people, some holding what appeared to be empty flour sacks scrambling over mounds of rubble and hiding in ditches. several bursts of automatic gunfire can also be heard. the person who uploaded the video told us that people had been travelling to access aid at sds four, from the coastal roads west of the netzarim corridor. we've also verified this video posted the next day. we know it was filmed nearby an

they were reportedly ordered by commanders to fire a cross. the so-called us, israely gaza humanitarian foundation sites. the so-called gaza humanitarian foundation is operating under tight israeli control. thousands of palestinians descend on these sites during nor daily time windows going through a death journey that locals resemble to hunger games. one lines as well, soldiers have reportedly been ordered to fire at civilians to disperse them. that the aid distribution mechanism is to ambush and kill more civilians. previously, we enraised, disapproved of this aid distribution mechanism. the humanitarian aid should preserve the dignity and the safety of the people and reach to the people through legitimate channels like unra. israel soldiers stationed in gaza received orders. to open fire on unarmed palestinians gathering at eight distribution sites. actions some soldiers described as a caring without any threat and effectively turning the areas into killing fields. اعتراف الاحتلال باستهدافه لطالبي المساعدات. this is another proof that the occupation aims at starving people in the strip. the ghf

and when the gaza humanitarian foundation says that its distribution has gone successfully, it's gone without incident. up until now, perhaps we have been able to say, well, in a sense that's true because these incidents are happening outside. but when you see video like this, it becomes very hard to see how this new organisation can in any way suggest that the way that it's distributing food, that the way that palestinians have been denied food for desperation, can result in anything but chaos and perhaps further violence. police officers from scotland are set to be sent to northern ireland, after the force there requested support. it follows a second night of violence in ballymena which left 17 police officers injured. police have warned that the unrest "risks undermining" the criminal justice process into an allegation of a sex attack on a teenage girl. from ballymena, our ireland correspondent, sara girvin, sent this report. two nights of intense violen have left homes destroyed, cars on fire, and 32 police officers injured. police have described the disorder as racist thuggery an

surprised at the chaos and violence and deaths that have surrounded the rollout of these gaza humanitarian foundation. it was put together by people who do not have the necessary expertise. it is showing just how difficult it is to operate on the ground in gaza. it is difficult to distribute humanitarian aid that when there is not an ongoing conflict and it is extraordinarily difficult in the current situation and if there are all sorts of problems in how the gaza humanitarian foundation was set up even as humanitarian aid is so desperately needed in gaza. the foundation said it did not open its distribution sites because of direct threats by hamas. this is something israel has been saying, that hamas has been taking eight away from the people who need it. what do you make of that and i guess the question is this was meant to be a method that we prevent aid from making it. -- aid. it is likely that hamas has threatened and made it difficult to distribute aid in the past and to ensure the hamas leadership gets first dips in assent and has the food and assistance they need and also it is in the interes

and more than a hundred injured, following disputed reports about an incident near the gaza humanitarian foundation'sompound in rafah. the israeli military says it 'did not fire at civilians while they were near or within' the distribution site. the bbc has asked the gaza humanitarian foundation for an interview but it has declined our requests. israel doesn't allow the bbc and other international media to report on the ground in gaza, but we do rely on trusted local freelancers sending footage. our reporter merlyn thomas has been following the story for bbc verify. a lot of claims and counterclaims swirling around this one particular incident in southern gaza we've been looking into into audio and into witness testimony as well to see what we can piece and talking through a particular series that the guys humanitarian foundation has shared with us and cctv footage from distribution sites in southern gaza and we verified where the service in the distribution and we can see people running away but we do not know we can hear because we cannot join the audio on this but at one particular point, you can

and more than a hundred injured, following disputed reports about an incident near the gaza humanitarian foundation's compound in rafah. the israeli military says it "did not fire at civilians while they were near or within" the distribution site. the bbc has asked the gaza humanitarian foundation for an interview but it has declined our requests. israel doesn't allow the bbc and other international media to report on the ground in gaza, but we do rely on trusted local freelancers sending footage. claire manera, emergency coordinator for medecins sans frontieres who is in gaza at the nasser hospital in khan younis. at the hospital we are seeing some of the most horrific injuries coming in. they are not only the burns, that we usually see from explosions, but also gunshot wounds. the hospital is already at capacity, so a lot of the cases that were sent to us, we weren't able to treat, because we've already got people sleeping in the hallways, as the bed capacity is not enough. more and more hospitals are being destroyed, this means that we don't have any ability to treat all the patients. i said in th

that was the reason for the gaza humanitarian foundation which is running several millions of food packages and meals have been already distributed to the people of gaza. we have to wait to hear from the idf, the israeli military what exactly happened in these incidents. we know that hamas and the health ministry run by hamas have lied in the past. it's surprise if hamas themselves want to shoot at the people to... a point of that, of course we hear from eyewitnesses on the ground, trusted journalists who do tell is that it is the israeli military that is shooting against civilians there. we can see the chaotic scenes where people are going in to pick up aid. this really does lend credence to the criticism that israel is urbanising a distribution in gaza. i do not think that is weaponisation a distribution in gaza. it is doing what any country would do, to bypass the terrorist group that is trying to use the aid. its continued rule in gaza and its continued existence. it's everyone's interest,, including the people in gaza to break free of the rule of hamas. i don't think we can trust what

headed towards the aid distribution sites again to um to to get aid backages from the gaza humanitarian foundation previous calls to previous posts on on social media that gaza humanitarian foundation has boasted previously that they are gonna open their gates to the gazans who are willing to have aid packages at the at 5 am this morning however when people hitted. uh to these a distribution sites, they were shot dead, four the four people were shot dead, got killed directly after being shot by the israeli fire in in rafah, one was killed near nezarim corridor in the middle area uh near anusairat refugee camp, more than 70 other were were injured as a result of this of this brutality and as a result of this this israeli brutality. against the people who are approaching or who are driven by their instinctive um actually need for aid and for food um to to the to these death tribes and to to these um killing points the israeli and the us israeli forces have established or engineered to to control and to kill to maskill the people who are being starved to death everyday people who who head towards the

we have talked about the gaza humanitarian foundation by the measure of the united nations experience humanitarian organisations, they call it a complete failure, a death trap. starving and desperate people being shot and killed on almost daily basis at this point. of the us is just approved in funding. will the president have attached any conditions with that funding? almost certainly not. the gaza humanitarian foundation is a disaster that is not working at all and in fact in some cases it's only furthering the policy of trying to depopulate gaza and the united states putting money behind it is indicative of the fact that we are invested in this and donald trump as an ally of his that is running at right now and this is his idea that he worked out with the israelis and so the idea that he's going be putting pressure on the gh after perform better seems exactly contrary to what he is likely to do which is to stand up and claim it's all working great. speaking to me a little earlier. president donald trump inside an executive order terminating us sanctions on syria. the white house sa

many of them at sites set up by the gaza humanitarian foundation. that is the controversial us israeli foundation that started operating one month ago. we are not sure all of this information that is being distributed every day is entirely accurate, we are quite certain that a huge percent as of it as part of a significant disinformation effort to try to discourage gaza to get our assistance and to try to get us to... our operation. despite the amount of energy and time it takes every single time one of these pieces of news or disinformation, whatever it is, comes out, we spend an extended period of time trying to understand what actually happened, if anything actually happened, and whether we can make it less likely to happen. in those circumstances we haven't been able to identify anything. certainly there are people but dying every day on the gaza strip, it is an active war zone, we are not doing this in the middle of a ceasefire, it is in the middle of a... some of that is unintentional, some of it is certainly intentional. at least on the hamas

and the head of the new gaza humanitarian foundation has denied that hundreds of deaths from shootings are linked to its aid distribution centres. welcome to the world today - an hour of international news from the bbc. 'a monumental victory'. that's how president trump described a supreme court ruling - which curbs the power that federal judges have to block his executive orders. the court ruled with a 6-3 majority that the power of federal judges to place government decisions on hold, should be limited. the case stems from president trump's order to end the constitutional right of birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants. today's ruling was about legal process, not the specific birthright policy. but in practical terms in does leave birthright citizenship, long assumed to exist in the united states, in doubt. i am grateful to the supreme court for stepping in and solving this very, very big and complex problem, and they've made it very simple. i want to thank justice barrett, who wrote the opinion brilliantly, as well as chief justice roberts and justices al

the gaza humanitarian foundation, a controversial aid network backed by the us and israel which began operating last week, said it was closing its sites for "update, organisation and efficiency improvements works". in the latest incident on tuesday, at least 27 palestinians were killed by israeli fire while trying to get aid from a distribution point according to gaza's hamas-run health ministry. israel's military has confirmed its troops fired at people who moved towards them while "deviating from the designated access routes" near an aid centre in rafah. israel previously denied shooting palestinians in a similar incident on sunday that gazan officials say killed 31 people. it's now warning residents against moving in aid areas - deeming them "combat zones." our chief north america correspondent told us more about the statement from the gaza humanitarian foundation and their decision to close today what they described as organisational and efficiency improvements. they do not specify what that means. they say that they will reopen on thursday so at this point in time it looks like a

the gaza humanitarian foundation backed by israel closed its aid distribution centres on wednesday to make changes after a series of incidents during which dozens of palestinians were shot dead trying to access them. the gaza humanitarian foundation, which is backed by the us and israel, closed its aid distribution centres on wednesday to make changes after a series of incidents during which dozens of palestinians were shot dead trying to access them. tess ingram is a spokesperson for the un's children's fund, unicef. she said the new aid organization working in gaza does not meet humanitarian principles. we're not working with this foundation, through the kerem shalom crossing and of course, providing services for children where we can, including mental health support. so our work is ongoing, but we have been very clear about two things. and the first one is that this blockade must be lifted. it is still being implemented, you know, this drip, drip, drip of trucks is not acceptable, it is not anywhere near the amount of aid that's needed. and so that's the first thing is we really ne

and israeli backed gaza humanitarian foundation. it's the only reason why they were here in the middle of the night in an active combat zone, is in order to go to this aid site. and that's exactly what humanitarian aid officials who have opposed this new controversial mechanism have been warning about for weeks. >> who exactly is behind the gaza humanitarian foundation? i know it's described as as israeli and u.s. backed and was formed because of criticism of the un's aid distribution, which israeli authorities have said, you know, hamas can can take aid that goes to the un or they're suspicious of the u.n. is the gaza humanitarian foundation the only one now distributing food and aid? and if so, who are they? >> well, the gaza humanitarian foundation only exists because of those israeli restrictions, because israel has decided that this is the mechanism through which they want aid to enter, because they accuse hamas of stealing aid that was going in through the un, something that hamas and the u.n., i should note, both dispute. now