International organizations reject the aid distribution mechanism in Gaza.

Immediate action must be taken to end Israel's deadly distribution mechanism in Gaza, including the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Facility. It is important to return to previous UN coordination mechanisms, allowing aid and commercial goods into the Strip, ensuring they reach the population, and preventing their exploitation as a lethal weapon in the Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which began managing aid in late May in place of the usual international humanitarian organizations, is overseen by the Israeli military. The organization's funding is opaque, with concerns about its neutrality and whether it serves Israel's military objectives. In less than four weeks, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while trying to access or distribute aid under the Israeli government's new plan. Hungry and vulnerable civilians are forced to walk for hours through dangerous roads and active combat zones, only to be bombed in horrific death scenes.

A group of 169 relief organizations called for an end to the Israeli-US aid distribution mechanism led by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, following near-daily reports of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire while waiting for aid near its centers. The organizations called for a return to the UN-led aid delivery mechanism in the Gaza Strip until last March, when Israel tightened its blockade on the Strip. Aid was gradually allowed in at the end of May and distributed through the affiliated organization, which international organizations have refused to cooperate with.

Before the occupation imposed its siege on Gaza last March, aid was distributed through non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies, particularly the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which employed 13,000 people in the Strip before the war.

Israeli media quoted soldiers as saying that commanders in the occupation army ordered forces to fire on civilians near aid centers even if they posed no threat. A senior official in the so-called "Southern Command" of the occupation army admitted to using artillery fire against civilians in the Gaza Strip, which led to the martyrdom and injury of dozens of people waiting to receive aid near distribution centers operating according to the American-Israeli mechanism.

Earlier, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that dozens of humanitarian organizations have called for an end to the activities of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, as it "provides nothing but starvation and bullets" to civilians in the Strip. Lazzarini explained in a post on the X platform that "more than 130 humanitarian non-governmental organizations have called for the restoration of a unified coordination and distribution mechanism (for aid in the Gaza Strip) led by the United Nations, including UNRWA, based on international humanitarian law."

What is happening in Gaza is taking place amidst a stifling blockade, worsening famine, a thirst that is killing children, and the rapid spread of epidemics in areas that lack the most basic necessities of life. The goal of this deliberate Israeli policy is to empty the land of its indigenous population and turn civilians into permanent victims of policies of slow killing, starvation, and humiliation. The criminal occupation government is practicing a complete war crime, using hunger as a lethal weapon. This complex crime reveals complete complicity between the occupation army and its racist government to kill innocent civilians in flagrant violation of all remaining principles of international humanitarian law.