The US, Israel and representatives of a new international foundation are nearing an agreement on a new mechanism to resume aid delivery to Gaza, reported Axios, citing two Israeli officials and one US source.
This comes as UN and humanitarian agencies warn that aid operations in the Gaza Strip are on the verge of total collapse amid Israel’s two-month total blockade on aid entry to the enclave.
Aid Delivery Deal
According to Axios, American and Israeli officials, representatives of an international humanitarian foundation and private companies have been working on an agreement on how to resume the delivery of aid to Palestinians in Gaza, without Hamas being part of the process.
The Israeli officials claimed that during and before the ceasefire, which collapsed on March 18, 2025, Hamas took control of most aid entering Gaza. They noted that the new delivery mechanism will exclude the Palestinian movement and weaken its grip on the Strip by decreasing the population’s dependence on the group.
US-Israeli Discussions
The Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, leads his country’s team in the discussions. The Israeli officials said that Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, briefed the US President, Donald Trump, on the discussions during a phone call last week.
Following their phone call, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he urged aid delivery to Gaza. “You got to be good to Gaza. Those people are suffering. There’s a very big need for food and medicine, and we’re taking care of it,” he said.
In the light of this, a US State Department official said that the new mechanism is the result of discussions involving Israel and the foundation, with the support of the Trump administration.
“We understand that the mechanism will deliver aid to the people who need it in line with our principals: we support the flow of humanitarian aid with safeguards to ensure assistance is not diverted, looted, or misused” by groups such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the American official said.
“President Trump and Secretary Rubio expect all UN and international aid agencies to work within the mechanism’s framework to ensure Hamas lacks access to these critical resources,” the official added.
New Aid Delivery Mechanism
Axios reported that aid delivery to Gaza will be managed by an internationally governed foundation, led by humanitarians with an advisory board of prominent international figures.
The plan involves building several compounds in part of Gaza, where Palestinian civilians will head once a week to get one aid package per family, supposedly sufficient for 7 days, the Israeli officials noted. They added that the Israeli military will not take part in the process.
“Israel has committed to fund and execute the massive engineering work required to build the infrastructure for the Secure Aid Distribution Sites,” Axios quoted a source familiar with the plan.
The source added that the parties are holding talks with donor countries to fund the foundation’s operations. Meanwhile, a private US company will manage the logistical delivery and provide security in and around the humanitarian compounds.
Deadly Blockade
Since March 2, 2025, Israel imposed a full blockade on the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza, and then resumed its war on the enclave on March 18. Aid agencies have warned of the devastating consequences of aid blockade, urging international action.
On Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned that the humanitarian response in Gaza is “on the verge of total collapse.” The agency urged immediate action to prevent chaos that “humanitarian efforts will not be able to mitigate,” according to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Last week, the World Food Program (WFP) said that it had run out of food stocks in Gaza under the Israeli blockade, after delivering the last remaining food stocks to hot meal kitchens in the Strip.
Within this context, the spokeswoman for the UN humanitarian agency OCHA, Olga Cherevko, told reports in Geneva on Friday: “Food stocks have now mainly run out. Community kitchens have begun to shut down (and) more people are going hungry.”
She mentioned reports about children and other vulnerable people who have died from malnutrition and lack of food. “The blockade is deadly,” she said.
Grave Situation
Similarly, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s humanitarian access manager in Gaza, Gavin Kelleher, warned that “thousands of people will die” if nothing is done.
“Israel is not only preventing food from entering Gaza but it has also engineered a situation in which Palestinians cannot grow their own food, they cannot fish for their own food and they continue to attack or deny access to the little left food stocks in Gaza,” he said.
Humanitarians also denounced the mass displacement forced by the war. The ICRC‘s deputy head of operations, Pascal Hundt, said that civilians were living “an overwhelming daily struggle to survive” the aggression, as well as repeated displacement and lack of humanitarian aid.
