A new aid distribution group backed by the U.S. and by Israel says it has started operating in Gaza. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation uses armed American contractors for security, which is what makes it different. It aims to bypass the UN to become the main supplier of aid to Palestinians in the enclave. 

“The new program is already off to an inauspicious start,” says Osamah Khalil, chair of the International Relations Undergraduate Program. “The director has already resigned and there's an interim director in place. And the director who resigned said it was because the attempts to deliver aid could not be done so with a humanitarian purpose, and that shouldn't be surprising. The United Nations is the only major organization on the ground, as well as several other NGOs, that can provide the necessary aid,” he says.

“But the bigger issue here is that Israel has been preventing aid from coming in, at least since mid-March, if not dating back at least 20 months. Some would argue 18 years. Roughly 500 to 600 trucks a day need to come into Gaza just for basic sustainability, and we're not even seeing a trickle of that,” Khalil says.

Watch the full interview via the CBS News website.