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'It's not perfect, but it will feed people': US Gaza aid director calls for support - report
Woods said that the international aid community would face a choice: this is the way aid will be distributed in Gaza. "Will you participate?"
Jake Wood, founder and executive director of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), told CNN's Jeremy Diamond on Saturday that the plan was "not perfect, but would feed people."
Wood told Diamond that the situation on the ground is clearly urgent and that they couldn't afford to wait to get aid in.
He reiterated that the GHF was committed to being operational in Gaza by the end of the month, but that "there was no time like the present" to begin entry of aid into the Gaza Strip and that he had asked Israel to bring forward the entry of aid.
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- Hamas launched a massive attack on October 7, with thousands of terrorists infiltrating from the Gaza border and taking some 240 hostages into Gaza.
- Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 at the Supernova music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across Gaza border communities.
- 58 hostages remain in Gaza.
- 49 hostages in total have been killed in captivity, IDF says.
- The IDF launched a ground invasion of Lebanon on September 30.
- The Israel-Lebanon ceasefire came into effect on November 27 at 4 a.m.
- Netanyahu confirmed the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire on January 17, 2025.