Tlaib denounces US funding for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and considers it support for the genocide of the people of Gaza.

Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib criticized the Trump administration on Friday for approving $30 million in funding for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) amid Israel's ongoing genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip.

"Almost every day this month, Israeli forces have deliberately shot and killed hungry Palestinians searching for food," Tlaib said on Twitter. "And now, the Trump administration has decided to support this deadly trap with $30 million. This is genocide—we are funding it, and the world is doing nothing to stop it."

Tlaib, a Michigan congresswoman, made the remarks a day after the US State Department announced its approval of $30 million in funding for the plan—a new Israeli plan to coordinate aid distribution in the Gaza Strip, which has been widely criticized by UN agencies and humanitarian actors.

In response to a question from the Jerusalem correspondent and other reporters on Thursday, State Department spokesman Tommy Piggott said the United States urges other countries to support the Global Relief Fund (GHF) and its "vital work."

“The record of distributing over 46 million meals so far, while preventing Hamas looting, is incredible and should be commended and supported,” said Bigot.

Critics have described the aid distribution sites of the US- and Israeli-backed Global Aid Fund, which opened in the besieged enclave on May 27, as "death traps."

According to Gaza authorities, approximately 550 Palestinians were shot dead at WRF sites, 39 others are missing, and more than 4,000 were injured.

According to the United Nations, this constitutes a "potential war crime" that violates international standards for aid distribution. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said, "Desperate and starving Gazans continue to face an inhumane choice: either starve to death or risk death while trying to access food." Israeli officers and soldiers said they were ordered to deliberately fire on unarmed civilians waiting for humanitarian aid, according to an investigation published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.