Donald Trump aides threaten the United Nations and other international aid organizations to threaten cut funding and other sanctions if they do not support a new aid program led by the U.S. war-torn Gaza, people familiar with the matter said.

Steve Witkoff, the U.S. Special Envoy for the Middle East, sent a private brief to the UN Security Council ambassador in New York on Wednesday, with his aide Arryeh Lightstone warning at a meeting of UN officials in Geneva on Thursday.

The most important threat is against the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Palestinian refugee agency, namely Gern (UNFA), the largest aid provider in Gaza, and three people familiar with the Witkov dialogue, according to three people familiar with the conversation.

WFP was told that the largest U.S. donors will be funded by 40% of the budget currently, which will harm troubled attractions such as Sudan and Bangladesh.

According to a person familiar with WFP deliberations, Cindy McCain, the agency's director, stood “firm.” "It's a hard person (from her)." The WFP spokesperson did not return an email seeking comments.

Washington also threatened to revoke the "grace and self-member" immunity enjoyed by the United States of America - essentially a form of diplomatic protection that the United States can eliminate at will. This could open the agency to the lawsuit against allegations that some of its Gaza employees played a role in Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.

Unops, a major logistics agency within global institutions, also faces the threat of U.S. funds freezing. “We are under a lot of pressure,” said a senior UN official. “This is the main threat to public humiliation and funding (if we don’t participate).

Another person close to this situation insists that the U.S. envoy posed no threat and warned opponents of the new aid program were seeking to undermine the program.

The Trump administration has actively covered up most of the U.S. foreign aid agencies, closed agencies such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, and cut foreign aid budgets.

However, funding for the United Nations and its plans is still under negotiation. The Israel Times first reported on the threat of U.S. cutting WFP funds.

Benjamin Netanyahu government stopped all food, water and other essentials into Gaza in early March after the devastated Palestinian enclave ended a two-month ceasefire.

Since then, the enclave has entered a state of extreme food insecurity, with WFP and others exhausted. Fruits, vegetables and meat are largely gone from the market.

The Israeli government has imposed a siege, demanding that Hamas release its still-in-Gaza hostages, accusing the group of helping its fighter jets and selling them on the black market.

Israeli officials, in coordination with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a little-known entity established in Switzerland in February, have developed a new plan with the assistance of private U.S. military contractors to send aid to the enclaves, claiming they claim they will avoid Hamas.

The UN rejected the plan on Sunday because it did not conform to the “core humanitarian principles of independent delivery of impartiality, neutrality and independent aid.”

UN officials are concerned that distributing aid with IDF-backed private organizations would harm people and could involve Israel’s efforts to push the enclave population to the southern edge of striptease.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee dismissed reports that the aid plan was "totally inaccurate" in Israel. Huckabee added that Trump's "strictly humanitarian action" will help ensure protection. "They will not be involved in the distribution of food," he said Friday.

“Either way, Israel and the United States will win,” said senior UN official. “Either the UN cave and play, undermining its humanitarian principles and neutrality, or the UN leaves and Israel can do it with other partners.”

The second senior UN official who does not support the new Gaza aid program remains critical of global institutions for not interacting with Israel. "We would rather remain pious than attend any speeches about Gaza," they said. "There is an order from the top...they would rather die from the hero and show that we would not blink under pressure."

The organization said in a GHF proposal in the Financial Times that their plan will help by initially establishing four "safe allocation sites." These will be established in southern Gaza and secured by armed private contractors.

Palestinians will be invited to the distribution venue, most likely once a week, to obtain “pre-packaged rations, sanitation kits and medical supplies”, according to the proposal and several briefs to the program.

GHF budgets $1.30 per meal, including the cost of logistics, which it claims is enough to provide 1,750 calories of meals for every “at risky civilian.”

Access to the site will be through a strictly controlled Israeli military corridor called a "filter point" that can monitor the recipient.

GHF expects each delivery location to serve 300,000 people, and will initially cover 12 million people with a total population of 2MN, a scale that humanitarian officials and even Israeli military officers believe is very unrealistic.