The Israeli- and United States-backed GHF organisation has announced it is ending its “mission” in Gaza.

The group sparked controversy after it began distributing food in the Palestinian enclave in May.

It has been widely condemned for bypassing the United Nations and other humanitarian aid infrastructure in Gaza and for deadly violence that regularly broke out at or near its crowded distribution sites by Israeli soldiers or its own security contractors.

“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,” GHF Executive Director John Acree said in a statement on Monday.

The statement pointed to provisions in the ceasefire between Israel

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