NEW YORK A man carries relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group that has bypassed the longstanding UN-led system in the territory, as displaced Palestinians return from an aid distribution centre in the central Gaza Strip on June 8 A high-level conference set to convene in New York later this month has scaled back its original ambition of achieving joint recognition of a Palestinian state by western powers, several reports have said. The retreat