Israel, Hamas talks drag as aid group chair tells UN to stop acting like the ‘mafia’
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Negotiations to secure a 60-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas seem to have hit an impasse amid hopes from top mediators, including President Donald Trump’s Middle East Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, that a deal can be reached soon.

There are several issues that remain major hurdles in securing lasting peace in the Gaza Strip and the return of all the hostages, according to multiple sources that Fox News Digital has spoken with. 

But one of the top sticking points has reportedly been the question of aid to the Palestinians and who exactly should be distributing the direly needed support. 

Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House

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

“We want to work with these organizations, but instead of engaging with us, what they’ve been doing is they’ve been working behind the scenes to sabotage us,” Moore said. “There’s no other way to describe it. The U.N. is behaving like a mafia.”

While the U.N. has not officially called for the removal of the GHF, it has criticized the organization’s “militarized” approach to delivering aid, which is not viewed as acceptable by the Sphere Association, which sets the international standards for humanitarian aid.

Both the GHF and the U.N. have said more aid is not only needed, but it would help eliminate the intense security risks affiliated with obtaining humanitarian supplies. 

“I have been very clear that the U.N. cannot do humanitarian work alone in Gaza, we need partners,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told Fox News Digital. “All that we ask is that these partners operate under the globally accepted humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence.”

Though both sides ultimately have the same goal, there appears to be an increasing impasse over how to provide stable aid for Palestinians who continue to live in extremely dire situations.

“My mission, and the mission of GHF is really, really simple. It’s just to feed people. And it should not be as controversial as it has been,” Moore said. “My interest has always been in the in the ‘day after’. We have to do both.”

Hungry children wait for food in Gaza.

Displaced Palestinian children wait to receive a free meal from a charity food distribution center in Gaza City, northern Gaza, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025.  (Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“We have to plan for the ‘day after’, and we have to address the emergency, and it’s time for the United Nations to stop playing political games,” he continued. “We can solve the problems together.

“But we have to make the decision to work together. GHF has already made that decision, and we’ve reiterated again and again and again that we want to work with the international community to reach these people. The decision is now theirs, and we’ll be here waiting, our hand extended,” Moore said. 

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