Nov. 24 (UPI) -- An on-the-ground organization in Gaza distributing critical aid to Palestinians in the strip has officially ceased operating after less than a year.
On Monday, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said its five-month run ended after fulfilling a large part of its planned mission to distribute much-needed food and supplies to displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, The Times of Israel and CNN reported.
"From the outset, GHF's goal was to meet an urgent need, prove that a new approach could succeed where others had failed, and ultimately hand off that success to the broader international community," according to John Acree, GHF's executive director.
Acree said a new mechanism, the Civil-Military Coordination Center, will adopt the GHF model to disperse aid, which was designed to prevent Hamas from diverting global aid supplies at a very small number of militarized hubs.
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