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State Department urges aid into Gaza but cites security conditions for safe delivery
Summary
The State Department reaffirmed that the U.S. wants humanitarian aid — including food and medicine — to reach Gaza but said deliveries must be safe from looting and theft before the U.S. will support large-scale movements into the territory.
The State Department reiterated that it wants humanitarian supplies, including food and medicine, to enter Gaza but said deliveries must meet safety conditions to avoid looting and harm to aid workers.
“ We want the aid to resume,” the State Department spokesperson said at the briefing. “We want humanitarian supplies and assistance to resume as long as it can be safely moved in and there’s no looting and if people aren’t getting mugged and it’s not being stolen.”
Reporters pressed whether the administration was applying more pressure on Israel to allow aid; the spokesperson said the president and U.S. envoys are engaged but declined to provide operational details about private diplomatic efforts. The spokesperson reiterated the U.S. relationship with Israel and said the United States is working through diplomatic channels to address humanitarian access.
The spokesperson framed U.S. engagement as balancing the imperative to relieve civilian suffering with concerns about the security environment on the ground and the safety of aid personnel. The department did not specify mechanisms for monitoring distribution, thresholds for resuming larger deliveries, or whether it had proposed specific distribution guarantees to Israeli authorities or other intermediaries.
The briefing did not include new timelines for resuming aid convoys, explicit security guarantees, or details about which U.S. or international agencies would lead distribution operations if movement resumed.
