Sigrid Kaag on Gaza: Aid under siege & the collapse of humanitarian norms | Talk to Al Jazeera 14,525 views Aug 11, 2025 #israel #gazacrisis #aljazeeraenglish
Former UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza Sigrid Kaag speaks to Talk to Al Jazeera about delivering aid under Israeli siege, amid what many world leaders call genocide. She discusses blocked aid, famine, the collapse of humanitarian norms, and the UN’s credibility crisis. Kaag, also a former deputy prime minister, finance minister, and foreign minister of the Netherlands, offers her perspective on what future remains for a rules-based order when even humanitarian principles are no longer guaranteed.
Every day, Palestinians are being killed, critically injured looking for food : AJE correspondent
2,584 views Aug 10, 2025 #GazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #PalestineNews
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip. She says every single day, Palestinians are going to these notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution sites, putting their lives at risk to get whatever food they can. She adds that dozens are being injured every single day, and doctors are saying they are unable to treat their wounds.
‘Orchestrated killings’ in Gaza: Doctors Without Borders urges closure of GHF aid sites
20,569 views Aug 7, 2025 #Hamas #GazaWar #IsraelGazaWar
A respected medical group says food distribution run by the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is “orchestrated killing”.
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, wants the US and Israeli-backed sites shut down.
It’s released medical data and testimony from its staff in a new report.
Al Jazeera’s Behdad Mahichi reports.
Over 50 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces at Gaza aid sites as hunger crisis worsens
41,229 views Aug 6, 2025 #Hamas #GazaWar #IsraelGazaWar
More hungry Palestinians have been shot by Israeli forces while desperately seeking food.
At least 30 were killed at a US and Israeli-backed distribution site in northern Gaza, while another 20 were killed in the south as they gathered near aid trucks.
Al Jazeera’s Behdad Mahichi reports.
Scavenging for scraps: Palestinians risk gunfire to feed starving children
12,058 views Aug 4, 2025 #GazaStarvation #GazaWar #IsraelGazaWar
Gaza’s Palestinians face a harrowing dilemma—death by Israeli bombardment or starvation—as 56 were killed waiting for aid on Sunday while six others perished from hunger in 24 hours.
Desperate civilians scavenge for scraps under gunfire near the Netzarim corridor, with one resident lamenting, “We collect pasta from the ground to feed our children.”
Aid distribution has become a lethal gamble, as crowds in Rafah and beyond brave Israeli fire, only to face what many call “humiliation, not help.”
Attacks persist unabated, with displaced families sheltering in a Khan Younis UN school and a Red Crescent facility shelled by Israeli forces.
Over 60,000 dead have left survivors clinging to life, as one man explains: “We risk death just to ease our hunger.”
Israel’s sporadic “humanitarian pauses” fail to alter the daily reality of a population systematically crushed by war and starvation.
Al Jazeera’s Ama Boateng reports.
Palestinian boy shot dead seeking food at controversial GHF aid site, family demands answers
123,222 views Aug 3, 2025 #Hamas #IsraelGazaWar #GazaWar
A moment of gratitude and hope, that turned to tragedy in Gaza.
A young boy, Abdul Rahim, also known as Amir, had walked kilometres to find food for his family, at one of the aid distribution sites run by the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Pictures of him thanking an American contractor were shared extensively online.
But Amir never returned home. The contractor he thanked has since returned from Gaza, and told the horrific truth, that the child was shot dead, just moments after the photos were taken.
Abdul Rahim is among the 859 Palestinians who’ve been slaughtered at GHF sites.
Al Jazeera’s Perry Wilton reports.
Never witnessed this level of destruction, dehumanisation: GHF whistleblower
100,314 views Aug 2, 2025 #PalestineNews #GazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish
Former GHF guard Anthony Aguilar has spoken to Al Jazeera about the “abhorrent” and “unnecessary” deadly tactics he witnessed firsthand at the aid sites run by the controversial US- and Israel-backed contractor. He explained that the Israeli military controls the crowd “using automatic machinegun fire, artillery rounds, mortar rounds, and at times, tank fire from the Merkava tank against unarmed, starving civilians, women, children, the disabled”. When the aid seekers are allowed to enter the site, they’re “released in one giant, massive wave, unorganised, chaotic stampeding”, while the Israeli military shoots at their feet, over their heads and sometimes into the crowd to control them.
Hear from the former guard blowing the whistle on GHF aid sites in Gaza
46,777 views Aug 2, 2025 #aljazeeranewslive #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeera
“I call that a war crime.” Anthony Aguilar told Al Jazeera about what he says were deadly and unprofessional practices he witnessed firsthand at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites in Gaza.
Witkoff visits food site in Gaza: US envoy inspects GHF site as more die of hunger
82,621 views Aug 2, 2025 #SteveWitkoff #GazaStarvation #AlJazeeraEnglish
The UN says the situation in Gaza has surpassed the threshold of famine. Three more Palestinians have died of starvation—taking the total toll to 162—92 of them children. This comes as US special envoy Steve Witkoff inspected a food distribution point run by the controversial Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Al Jazeera’s Hoda Abdel-Hamid reports from Amman—she’s there because the Israeli government has banned Al Jazeera from reporting inside Israel and the occupied West Bank.
Palestinians view GHF as ‘symbol of control and manipulation’: AJE correspondent
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Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza. He says that people are expecting little from Witkoff’s visit to the GHF site. He adds that since the GHF took over [aid distribution] operations, getting food has become very dangerous and humiliating. Many Palestinians have begun to view the GHF not as a humanitarian actor, but as a symbol of control and manipulation.
Palestinians face severe hunger as aid remains restricted by Israel in Gaza
11,647 views Aug 2, 2025 #GazaStarvation #GazaHunger #GazaCrisis
Crowds of starving Palestinians in northern Gaza have been scrambling to get food any way they can. Israel is severely limiting the volume of aid getting into the north, meaning many return home to their families with nothing to eat.
Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim Al Khalili reports.
Bloodshed at GHF-run aid sites ‘a great sin’: Ex-UN official
5,390 views Aug 1, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #GazaCrisis #WarCrime
Martin Griffiths, director of Mediation Group International and the former Under Secretary General of the UN Humanitarian Affairs Office, says the US and Israel-backed GHF’s aid distribution system has turned into a “catastrophe”, as the number of aid seekers killed continues to climb beyond 1,000.
“I think when many of us saw the first plans of the GHF to launch this operation in Gaza, we were immediately appalled by the way they were proposing to manage it,” Griffiths told Al Jazeera.
“It was clearly militarised. They’d have their own security contractors. They’d have [Israeli military] camps placed right beside them. We know now that they are, in fact, under instructions by [the Israeli military]. All of this is a crime. All of this is a deep betrayal of humanitarian values.”
“But what I at least did not sufficiently anticipate was the killing and was the absolutely critical result of this operation, this sole humanitarian operation allowed by Israel in Gaza,” Griffiths added.
“The 1,000 killed are an incredible statistic. I had no idea it would go that high and it’s going on daily. It’s not stopping.”
“I think it’s a catastrophe more than a disappointment,” he said. “I think it’s a great sin. I think it’s a great crime.”
Gaza: Searching for Food Becomes a Death Journey
3,655 views Aug 1, 2025 #GazaHunger #AlJazeeraEnglish #FoodCrisis
Getting food in Gaza is no longer simple — it’s a matter of survival.
In this video, a single mother of two shares her harrowing experience as she visits a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site just to find something to eat. What should be a basic human right has become, in her words, a “death journey.”
Through her story, we witness the daily struggle, fear, and courage faced by thousands under siege
Palestinians in Gaza face starvation as Israel blocks aid and opens fire on aid seekers
5,330 views Aug 1, 2025 #GazaStarvation #IsraelGazaWar #GazaWar
More than 90 children have died from hunger in Gaza, including two on Thursday, despite Israeli claims of increased aid. Families are so desperate they risk death to reach food trucks, often coming under Israeli fire. In the past 24 hours, 91 Palestinians were killed while waiting for aid. Starvation now haunts every neighbourhood. Although Israel says it is allowing more aid in, very few trucks are arriving, and many are looted by criminal gangs. UN agencies warn that only a full ceasefire can ensure aid reaches those in need. Gaza’s humanitarian crisis continues to worsen.
Al Jazeera’s Tariq Abu Azzoum reports from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, on a population pushed to the brink, where hunger is weaponised and children go to bed without food.
Israeli strikes continue across Gaza as hunger crisis deepens despite ‘tactical pauses’
11,467 views Jul 31, 2025 #Hamas #GazaHunger #GazaWar
Hunger and starvation in Gaza are driving Palestinians to take extreme risks, in their search for something to eat.
The scale of desperation is now visible from space. Satellite photos show the size of the crowds that meet humanitarian aid trucks when they enter civilian areas.
Even while enforcing its policy of mass starvation in Gaza, the Israeli military is still bombarding the strip.
Attacks in central and northern Gaza, have killed at least 27 Palestinians since dawn on Thursday.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud has more from Gaza City, Palestine.
Israeli fire kills dozens of Palestinians as they queue for aid across famine-hit Gaza Strip
6,541 views Jul 31, 2025 #GazaStarvation #IsraelGazaWar #GazaWar
Israeli forces opened fire on crowds of starving Palestinians waiting for food aid in northern and southern Gaza, killing at least 49 people and wounding over 150 in a single day. Witnesses described horrific scenes as displaced families, desperate for flour and canned goods, came under attack near designated aid corridors. Despite Israel’s claims of allowing humanitarian access, survivors say aid deliveries remain a deadly gamble, with many shot while approaching trucks. Hospitals struggled to treat the wounded as Gaza’s health ministry reported four more deaths from starvation in 24 hours. The attacks have raised urgent questions over the safety of aid routes, with critics accusing Israel of using limited aid concessions to deflect international outrage while maintaining a blockade. Meanwhile, famine spreads as lawlessness and Israeli restrictions prevent meaningful relief from reaching those in need.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum joins us on the phone from Deir al Balah in central Gaza to discuss the latest updates.
Babies in Gaza face irreversible harm from starvation and lack of aid, doctors warn
18,360 views Jul 29, 2025 #Hamas #GazaHunger #GazaWar
Aid may be trickling into Gaza, but healthcare workers warn it may be too little, too late.
Israel has imposed a blockade on Gaza since March – limiting the amount of food allowed in.
Many Palestinians are now suffering from acute malnutrition and doctors say some of the effects are irreversible.
Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili reports from Gaza City, Palestine.
Medical staff in Gaza’s hospitals are now seeing babies so severely malnourished “without muscles and fat tissue, just the skin over the bone,” the director of paediatrics and maternity at Nasser Hospital, Dr Ahmed al-Farra, tells Al Jazeera.
Gaza aid airdrops spark desperation as food crisis worsens, Israeli strikes continue
39,573 views Jul 29, 2025 #Hamas #GazaHunger #GazaWar
Hospitals across Gaza are inundated with Palestinians, injured in Israeli air strikes.
At least 92 people have been killed on Monday, 41 of them while they were waiting for food.
Israel says it has committed to daily 10-hour pauses in military operations in parts of Gaza, but bombs are still raining down.
Food drops are sporadic, as are the trucks meant to be delivering vital aid to a starving population.
Al Jazeera’s Perry Wilton reports.
Over 1,000 killed while seeking food at Gaza humanitarian sites: Oxfam
13,878 views Jul 23, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Palestine
More than one thousand people have been killed while trying to access food in GHF sites. Most of them have been shot by Israeli forces that fired on the crowds. The British charity, Oxfam, has been following the struggles of one man, who was injured in one such attack.
This report has been supplied to al Jazeera by the charity.
Gaza’s aid lifeline turns deadly as Israeli forces fire on starving civilians
8,827 views Jul 23, 2025 #GazaStarvation #IsraelGazaWar #GazaWar
Gaza’s humanitarian crisis has worsened under Israel’s total blockade since March, with only five of 30 scheduled aid trucks entering via the Zikim crossing on Tuesday.
Desperate Palestinians rushing for flour faced lethal Israeli gunfire, leaving 26 dead and 120 critically injured—many shot in the neck, chest, or kneecaps with bone-shattering explosive bullets.
The area near Beit Lahiya has become a deadly “distribution centre”, where aid convoys now routinely draw sniper fire, tanks, and drone attacks. Shifa Hospital received casualties with distinctive wounds, adding to Gaza’s growing population of amputees, while clinics struggled with overwhelming shrapnel injuries.
Eyewitnesses described scenes of chaos as malnourished civilians risked their lives for food, with many bodies remaining uncollected due to ongoing shootings.
Medical reports confirm systematic targeting of vital areas, reflecting a pattern of deliberate violence against starving aid-seekers.
This follows weeks of similar massacres at aid points, where hunger has forced civilians into what locals now call “death traps”.
The blockade has turned basic sustenance into a lethal gamble, with flour sacks worth dying for amid Israel’s near-total restrictions.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports from Gaza City.
Israeli forces kill Palestinians waiting for food near the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza
24,165 views Jul 21, 2025 #GazaHunger #Hamas #IsraelGazaWar
For the second day in a row, Israeli forces have killed more than 100 Palestinians in Gaza.
At least 79 were killed near the Zikim crossing, where crowds were shot at, while waiting for food trucks.
The World Food Programme (WFP) says one of its aid convoys came under fire in northern Gaza earlier today, after a large crowd of civilians gathered in hopes of receiving food assistance.
In a statement, WFP said the convoy of 25 trucks had entered through the Zikim crossing and was headed to areas facing “extreme food insecurity”.
A number of the wounded from the Zikim attacks were taken to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Al Jazeera’s Moath al-Kahlout was there when they arrived.
Notorious GHF site killings: Palestinians repeatedly targeted by Israeli forces
22,531 views Jul 20, 2025 #GazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #GazaHungerCrisis
A new wave of Israeli attacks has targeted Palestinians looking for food at sites run by the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the south of the strip. At least 90 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza on Saturday. 36 of them were people trying to get food.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports from Deir al Balah in central Gaza.
At least 21 people killed in stampede, suffocation at GHF site in Gaza
4,265 views Jul 17, 2025 #GazaStarvation #GazaHunger #IsraelGazaWar
At least 21 Palestinians have been killed in the latest carnage at the GHF aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, with most of the victims reported to have died in a stampede.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health has disputed the allegation from the controversial United States- and Israel-backed organisation that armed agitators were responsible for the incident on Wednesday morning at the site in Khan Younis.
In an earlier statement, the GHF had said 19 victims were trampled and another was stabbed “amid a chaotic and dangerous surge”.
Al Jazeera’s Imran Ullah Khan reports.
At least 20 Palestinians killed at GHF distribution site in Khan Younis
11,278 views Jul 16, 2025 #GazaHunger #Hamas #IsraelGazaWar
The notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says at least 20 Palestinians were killed Wednesday morning at its food distribution site in Khan Younis.
The Israeli and US backed company called it a tragic incident.
The United Nations has called the GHF food sites “death traps” and condemned their operations.
More than 875 people have been killed by Israeli forces and US contractors at the GHF sites since it began operating in May.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud has more from Gaza City, Palestine.
Israeli army targets food sites: At least 34 Palestinians killed waiting for food
21,613 views Jul 13, 2025 #GazaConflict #IsraelGaza #GazaCrisis
Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed 98 Palestinians on Saturday. Many of them were malnourished, killed while trying to get food. At least 34 people were killed near the only functioning food distribution site in the strip. It’s run by the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an organisation backed by Israel and the US. Earlier this week, the UN Human Rights Office said that since May more than 800 Palestinians have been killed while waiting for food – most of them at GHF sites.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports .
GHF Food Site Attack: 30 Palestinians Killed While Waiting for Food Parcels
13,668 views Jul 12, 2025 #WarCrimes #AlJazeeraEnglish #Palestine
At least 30 people have been killed and 130 wounded at the only remaining food distribution point operated by GHF in southern Gaza.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza, said the Israeli army opened fire indiscriminately on a large crowd.
“Many desperate families in the north have been making dangerous journeys all the way to the south to reach the only operating distribution centre in Rafah,” he said.
“Many of the bodies are still on the ground,” Mahmoud said, adding that the wounded had been transferred to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
When the Israeli- and US-backed organisation started operations in May, it had four distribution points across Gaza for 2.1 million people, compared with more than 400 centres previously operated by the UN.
On Wednesday, the GHF said it was closing its hub in Khan Younis for maintenance and renovation, leaving only one site open, in Rafah. GHF-led operations are therefore forcing Palestinians to travel south if they want food, creating dangerous bottlenecks, according to our colleagues on the ground.
Aid distribution hubs are source of fear, death and mass casualties
4,182 views Jul 12, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #GazaCrisis #FoodDistribution
What had been marketed as a lifeline for the population has become a source of fear, death and mass casualties.
The delivery of food controlled by the GHF has killed nearly 800 people, according to the UN.
Israel had promised death and destruction at the beginning of the genocide, and this is what it is delivering.
Food distribution has become progressively more dangerous, and now only very hungry people are turning to distribution centres and risking their lives.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.
Gaza food aid sites under attack, UN says nearly 800 killed
63,792 views Jul 12, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #GazaNews #UNHumanRights
The UN Human Rights office says nearly 800 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since May trying to get food. Most of them are at sites run by the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—a group backed by the US and Israel. On Friday alone, 10 people were killed at a GHF site in Rafah, southern Gaza.
The UN Human Rights Office spokesperson, Ravina Shamdasani, expressed grave concern over potential atrocity crimes, highlighting the impossible choice people face between starvation and being shot.
Muhanad Seloom, Assistant Professor in Critical Security Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, joins Al Jazeera’s live coverage to discuss the implications.
Conditions in Gaza deteriorate even further after GHF shut most aid points
8,482 views Jul 11, 2025 #GazaCrisis #Palestine #HumanitarianAid
Palestinians are struggling to afford necessities and food available in local markets. The amount of food given by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is not enough, either.
The realities on the ground started to deteriorate sharply after the GHF decided to close down most of the aid centres it operated in the enclave. It kept only one aid centre operational in Rafah city, in the far south of the Strip.
This step has been raising serious concerns as aid workers say one active aid centre will not be enough to meet the catastrophic needs of two million Palestinians. Most of them are injured, displaced, hungry and traumatised.
Only one GHF site open in Gaza, forcing starving Palestinians to move south for aid
18,635 views Jul 10, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Hamas
An Israeli blockade on food, aid and medicine has been fuelling a man-made starvation crisis in Gaza for months.
Now, a notorious Israeli- and US backed group seems to be using aid to move hundreds of thousands of people to the south – where Israel plans to forcibly transfer Palestinians into a “concentration zone.”
On Wednesday, GHF announced that it’s now going to operate only one distribution center – that’s one aid delivery site for more than two million starving Palestinians.
A site in central Gaza near the Netzarim Corridor was already closed.
On Wednesday, GHF closed its aid distribution point in Khan Younis leaving only one site in Rafah operational for aid deliveries.
The group says it’s shut for “maintenance and renovations” with no timeline for when it will reopen.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum has the latest from outside central Gaza’s largest health facility – the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.
Aid distribution in Gaza used as a ‘tool of genocide’
4,813 views Jul 5, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #HumanitarianCrisis #GazaAidCrisis
Amid the near-daily killing of aid seekers around the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) aid sites, academic Pietro Stefanini says the US and Israel are deliberately weaponising humanitarian assistance to serve military and strategic objectives, bypassing established aid channels.
“There is this weaponisation of aid distribution as a tool of genocide, which is done specifically to advance strategic war aims,” Stefanini, a tutor of history and politics at the University of Edinburgh, told Al Jazeera.
Stefanini says existing humanitarian organisations such as UNRWA and the World Food Programme have refused to work with the GHF system because they are trying “to use aid to coerce the displacement of Palestinians from one area of Gaza’s territory to another”.
“Aid is intentionally limited to perpetuate scarcity and inflict starvation, since what the GHF provides does not meet the need of an intense food supply crisis,” he added.
Gaza Conflict: The Role of Military Contractors and Ceasefire Challenges
6,807 views Jul 5, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #IsraelHamas #MiddleEastConflict
In this interview, Mohanad Saloum, assistant professor of critical security studies at the Doha Institute, discusses the controversial role of private military contractors in Gaza. He explains their impact on aid militarization, legal accountability, and the complexities surrounding ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
People risking their lives in Gaza for food: Dr. Rick Pepperkorn
3,263 views Jul 4, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #MedicalEmergency #AlJazeera
In an exclusive interview with Dr. Rick Pepperkorn, the World Health Organization’s representative for Palestine, reports from central Gaza on the catastrophic health situation at Nasser Medical Complex and other hospitals. Dr. Rick Pepperkorn describes how the hospital is overwhelmed, operating at double its capacity, with severe shortages of beds and medical supplies.
Israel using private military contractors at aid points to ‘outsource genocide’
11,272 views Jul 4, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #MiddleEastCrisis #IsraelGazaConflict
Military analyst Yusuf Alabarda has discussed with Al Jazeera why Israel is using private military contractors at aid distribution centres in Gaza, which have been the scene of routine deadly violence against Palestinians seeking aid.
Speaking from Ankara, Alabarda said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was using private security contractors in a “kind of outsourcing [of] the genocide”.
He said the private contractors at the aid distribution centres were playing a role in “ethnic cleansing and changing the demography inside Gaza”.
“One of the biggest advantages of using private military contractors [is] they are not responsible to anyone and they are under-regulated,” he said. “For this reason, many countries have used private military contractors for their dirty work to be done.”
Alabarda said Netanyahu did not want to implicate the Israeli military “in all the genocide”.
“He wants to use the private contractors in the food distribution centres in order to collect intelligence, in order to shoot defenceless people, and for many different purposes.”
Victims of hunger: Shootings at aid sites leave broken families in Gaza
24,350 views Jul 4, 2025 #GazaStarving #AlJazeeraEnglish #HumanitarianCrisis
Israel’s blockade and controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution sites are breaking families across Gaza.
Live ammunition and stun grenades are regularly being used against Palestinians waiting to get food, and civilians are paying with their lives.
Al Jazeera’s Perry Wilton reports.
Israel’s war on Gaza: US contractors fired on civilians at GHF aid sites, AP probe finds
41,908 views Jul 4, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #Israel #Rafah
US contractors with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation fired live ammunition at Palestinians seeking food, an AP investigation reveals. Leaked videos show unqualified guards shooting into crowds, with forensic proof of machine gunfire near aid lines. Whistleblowers allege Israel uses the sites for surveillance via facial recognition. GHF denies violence, despite footage and testimonies contradicting their claims. Doctors Without Borders condemns it as “slaughter disguised as aid.”
These revelations come amidst growing concerns over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and calls for corporations to dissociate from enabling potential war crimes.
Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid reports.
US contractors say live rounds are being shot at Gaza aid seekers
13,068 views Jul 3, 2025 #aljazeeranewslive #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeera
An Associated Press report reveals leaked footage from sites of the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Two US security contractors say live rounds and stun grenades were used on Palestinians at the food distribution points run by unqualified and heavily armed guards.
GHF aid distribution sites in Gaza is ‘a sham to terrorise and kill’: Dr Mads Gilbert
15,244 views Jul 3, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Hamas
Palestinians have taken huge risks hoping to receive a small amount of food.
Videos from the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution sites show the contents of the boxes that are being distributed to starving Palestinians
They include canned goods like beans and vegetables, bottled items like vine leaves and flour, pasta, oil, biscuits and tea.
Aid experts say what people in Gaza desperately need is nutritious food—that is ready to eat.
Because using scarce water and fuel to cook these supplies will put people at even greater risk
Experts also say when aid is delivered by recognized organisations, the people who receive it are registered, advised,
and monitored for malnutrition, to make sure the vital food support reaches the most vulnerable.
But that’s not happening in Gaza.
Doctor Mads Gilbert is an emergency medicine doctor who’s provided healthcare in Gaza for more than 30 years. He says the distribution organisation is aimed at using food as bait to attract starving people, to terrorise them and to kill them.
GHF is a militarised solution being used for a humanitarian crisis: Analysis
13,353 views Jul 3, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Hamas
Calls are getting louder for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) centres to be shut down.
They come as another 29 Palestinians were killed at the sites on Wednesday, while seeking food.
More than 640 people have been killed since the GHF began operating five weeks ago.
The Swiss government has initiated proceedings to dissolve the Geneva branch of the GHF citing legal shortcomings.
The UN Secretary-General’s office says the globally accepted humanitarian standards must be followed while distributing aid.
Hardin Lang is Vice President for Programmes and Policy, at Refugees International.
He says the GHF is a militarised solution being used for a humanitarian crisis.
Palestinians shot at Gaza food sites run by US- and Israel-backed aid group: AP report
30,952 views Jul 3, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Hamas
An Associated Press report has revealed alarming videos recorded by security contractors, stationed at Gaza distribution centres that the UN describes as “death traps”.
Two American security contractors spoke with the agency on the condition of anonymity.
They confirmed that live rounds and stun grenades were fired at Palestinians, at food distribution sites run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
Al Jazeera’s Alex Baird reports.
‘Murderous free-for-all’: UNRWA slams Israel’s deadly Gaza aid distribution system
18,056 views Jul 3, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Israel
Speaking to Al Jazeera, UNRWA Director of Affairs in Gaza Sam Rose condemned Israel’s ‘militarised’ aid system that has seen 600+ Palestinians killed while queueing for food. He described dehumanising ‘cattle pen’ distributions open for mere minutes, leaving 2 million reliant on just four sites—none in famine-stricken north Gaza. Rose warned this ‘murderous free-for-all’ compounds Gaza’s intolerable crisis, with bombings, evictions and fuel shortages creating ‘a bloody Sunday every day’. He accused GHF of operational failure, stressing proper aid requires expertise—not the current chaos enabling mass casualties. While 138 organisations demand GHF’s closure, Rose emphasised only a ceasefire can end suffering that ‘will scar generations’. With Israel blocking alternatives, he noted civilians face impossible choices: risk death for scraps or starve. Rose stressed famine now outweighs bombardment as Gaza’s top killer.
GHF may be liable for criminal prosecution over killings at aid sites: Intl human rights lawyer
17,883 views Jul 2, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Hamas
The number of Palestinians killed while waiting for food in Gaza is now more than 600 in just five weeks.
They’re dying at the Israeli-US-backed distribution points run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which the UN has described as “death traps”.
Al Jazeera’s Moath al-Kahlout reports from Gaza City, Palestine.
Toby Cadman is an international human rights lawyer and a specialist in the field of war crimes. He says the GHF may be liable for criminal prosecution for the killings at its sites.
Israel kills nearly 600 Palestinians at aid centres
62,386 views Jul 2, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Hamas
The number of Palestinians killed while seeking food in Gaza is now more than 600 in just five weeks.
They’re dying at US and Israeli-backed distribution points run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
The UN calls them “death traps”.Al Jazeera’s Moath al-Kahlout reports from Gaza City, Palestine.
Antony Loewenstein is a journalist and the author of “The Palestine Laboratory”, a book on Israel’s arms and surveillance industry. He told Al Jazeera that he is worried that other countries will see the US and Israel’s militarised aid operations, via the GHF, as a model.
Why are aid seekers in Gaza being killed? | Start Here
84,163 views Jul 1, 2025 #AJStartHere #IsraelGazaWar #Israel
“It’s like hell”. “It’s like Russian roulette”. That’s how people in Gaza are describing what’s happening at food distribution sites run by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Hundreds of people have been killed near these sites in recent weeks.
What’s going on? Who are the GHF? And why are they now running food distribution in Gaza? #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains.
Chapters:
00:00 – How aid seekers have become a new category of victims in Gaza.
00:43 – How Israel’s blockade has led to huge shortages of food and aid in Gaza.
01:31 – The changes to aid distribution under the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
02:00 – Who are the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?
03:09 – How GHF aid hubs are located in “red zones”.
03:51 – Testimony about the killings at aid hubs.
05:24 – What the Israeli military says about what’s happening.
06:08 – How a backdrop of lawlessness is making things worse.
This episode features:
Amy Low | Medical Team Lead, Médecins Sans Frontières
Kazem Abu Khalaf | Palestine Spokesperson, UNICEF
Nebal Farsakh | Spokesperson, Palestine Red Crescent Society
‘Situation in Gaza rapidly deteriorating day by day’: Medical Aid for Palestinians
12,942 views Jul 1, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Hamas
Palestinians in Gaza are being forced to chose between starvation or gunfire at controversial distribution centres described as “death traps” by the UN and more than a hundred NGOs.
The groups, including Oxfam, say the dangerous scheme – run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – must end immediately.
The joint statement says 400 UN aid points have been replaced by just 4 military-controlled sites – forcing more than two million people into overcrowded, militarised zones where they face daily gunfire.
More than 580 people have been killed and thousands injured in attacks since the sites began operating in May.Mai Elawawda is the communications officer at Medical Aid for Palestinians in Gaza.
She says the situation in Gaza is rapidly deteriorating day by day.
The Gaza Humanitarian Crisis & Ongoing Conflict
11,921 views Jun 28, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #WestBank #Israel
In this exclusive interview, Chris Doyle, Director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding and Middle East affairs commentator, sheds light on the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza amid the ongoing blockade and conflict. He discusses the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the impact of Israeli military actions on civilians, and the worsening situation in the West Bank. Chris also analyzes the political dynamics surrounding the possibility of a ceasefire, regional tensions, and the challenges facing Palestinian rights and dignity. Food collection point deaths: Starving Palestinians targeted by Israeli forces
12,246 views Jun 28, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #StopTheViolence #HumanitarianAid
Food distribution sites run by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation are supposed to be places where Palestinians can safely get supplies.
Yet, many are being shot and killed by Israeli forces.
Their families are not only left without a husband, father, brother or son.. but also a means of getting desperately needed food.Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports.
Gaza’s displaced face hunger and risky food journeys
5,349 views Jun 28, 2025 #Starvation #AlJazeeraEnglish #Palestinians
The report on the hungry Palestinians are facing the choice of either starving or making life-risking journeys just to get food.Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud has spoken to a displaced person in Gaza City about his struggles to get food.
‘Controlling the crowd by fire’ at Israeli aid sites: Haaretz journalist
10,603 views Jun 28, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #idf #MiddleEastNews
Killings of Palestinians at US, Israeli aid distribution sites in Gaza are part of an Israeli military directive to “control” crowds, according to Nir Hasson, a journalist at Israeli outlet Haaretz, who revealed this finding today in a report alongside his colleagues.“It’s actually a practice of … controlling the crowd by fire, like if you wanted the crowd to run off [from] a place, you shoot them at them, even though you know they are unarmed … You use fire to move people from one point to another,” Hasson told Al Jazeera, speaking from West Jerusalem.
While the journalist and his colleagues do not know the name of the commander who might have issued such a directive, Hasson said that he would likely hold a position high up in the army.
Killed while waiting for food: Israeli soldiers speak to media about orders to shoot
189,690 views Jun 28, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #idf #MiddleEastNews
Some soldiers within the Israeli military have admitted to disturbing conduct at food distribution centres in Gaza. They revealed to the Haaretz newspaper they were ordered to deliberately shoot at unarmed Palestinians – despite them posing no danger to anyone.Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid reports.
New Gaza Massacre: Dozens Killed Near Aid Centers
3,045 views Jun 14, 2025 #GazaUnderAttack #IsraelGazaConflict #WarCrimes
While global attention is fixed on the Iran-Israel conflict, Israeli airstrikes have continued across the Gaza Strip. At least 4 Palestinians were killed in Gaza City, and 15 others in Nuseirat Refugee Camp near a US-Israeli aid distribution center.
Eyewitnesses and aid groups report that civilians waiting for food have become direct targets, turning aid queues into deadly traps. No credible military justification has been provided for the strikes, which have left scores dead and wounded.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports.
Thousands of Palestinians endure hardship waiting for aid in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor
5,239 views Jun 13, 2025 #Palestine #Gaza #Israel
Palestinians are undertaking long journeys to reach aid distribution points, some even spending the night waiting to secure food.
Al Jazeera’s Moath al-Kahlout was at the Netzarim Corridor overnight where people were waiting for flour trucks.
Over 40 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire while queueing for food at Gaza aid site
15,733 views Jun 12, 2025 #Palestine #Gaza #Israel
75 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza on Wednesday.
More than 40 of them lost their lives at a controversial food distribution centre backed by Israel and the US.
Witnesses say the Israeli army opened fire on people queuing for food near the Netzarim Corridor.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reports on the desperate and deadly search for food in Gaza.
Israel turns aid into lethal trap as Gaza starvation deaths mount: Medical Aid for Palestinians
13,653 views Jun 10, 2025 #Palestine #Gaza #Israel
On the ground in Gaza, Israeli forces have again shot and killed Palestinians desperate to find food. At least 20 people have been killed at a food distribution point near the Nitzarem Corridor. On Monday, 14 Palestinians were killed near the US and Israeli back-to-Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s aid Center in southern Rafa.
Liz Allcock of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) condemned Israel’s lethal force against civilians seeking food aid in Gaza, citing deaths near distribution points in recent days. She criticised the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” (GHF) for its chaotic, inadequate aid parcels, containing minimal-calorie dry goods, which Palestinians risk their lives to access. The packages, designed for seven days, force repeated perilous journeys, with many selling them for cash to buy scarce fresh food. Allcock highlighted a catastrophic cycle: no fuel limits water access, worsening malnutrition and disease. Aid parcels now sell for $450 on black markets, while flour costs $800, pricing out starving families. Returning to Gaza in June, she described unprecedented despair, with colleagues calling the past three months the worst in 20 years. Hourly airstrikes and siege conditions have erased hope, leaving survival as the only focus. Allcock emphasised that Israel’s restrictions violate Palestinians’ right to humanitarian access, with medical facilities overwhelmed by gunshot wounds from aid site attacks. Her team works amid constant danger, symbolising Gaza’s collapse into a “hour-by-hour” struggle for existence.
UN calls for unrestricted flow of aid to alleviate Gaza’s severe humanitarian crisis
10,709 views Jun 9, 2025 #Palestine #Gaza #Israel
At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in al-Mawasi in the south, after Israeli troops opened fire on crowds waiting near aid distribution sites.
Dozens were also injured near another aid distribution point near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza.
These killings are the latest in a series of attacks at aid centres operated by the US and Israel backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary has more from outside Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Palestine.
Olga Cherevko is the spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). She explains how critical the food situation is in Gaza.
Israeli forces open fire at Gaza food sites, killing at least 13 Palestinians
18,456 views Jun 9, 2025 #GazaWar #Hamas #Israel
At least 13 Palestinians have been killed and more than 100 wounded by Israeli gunfire as they tried to collect food supplies on Sunday.
It happened near one of the US and Israeli-backed aid distribution points in southern Gaza.
Al Jazeera’s Michael Appel has the story of a 36-year-old father of five, who was gunned down as he went to collect food.
At least 13 Palestinians killed, hundreds injured by Israeli gunfire near aid sites in Gaza
23,417 views Jun 8, 2025 #Palestine #Gaza #Israel
Israeli forces have again opened fire on Palestinians in southern Gaza, near one of the food distribution points in Rafah.
At least 13 people were killed and a hundred wounded.
The site is one of four run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an organisation backed by the US and Israel.
Palestinians go there everyday in the hopes of collecting food.
But Israeli forces have killed at least 118 people near the aid hubs in less than two weeks.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary has more from outside Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Palestine.
Northern Gaza’s starving families queue all night for single meal amid aid collapse
9,501 views Jun 8, 2025 #Palestine #Israel #Gaza
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has no food distribution sites in northern Gaza.
For people living in northern Gaza, the closest aid point is on the other side of the Netzarim Corridor — an Israeli military zone that cuts off the north from the rest of the strip.
It’s nowhere near enough to serve the dire need there.
Every morning, thousands of Palestinians rush to the site, hoping for something to feed their families.
Al Jazeera’s Moath Al Kahlout reports from Gaza City.
Palestinians killed while seeking ‘anything’ to feed families
17,245 views Jun 7, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #WarCrimes #Rafah
This year, Eid al-Adha has been very sad. According to Palestinians, many do not even have the opportunity to eat meat or anything else.
The Palestinians killed today [near an aid point in Rafah] were looking for anything to feed their families when they were shot.
This was not the only incident. In the past week, we’ve seen at least four similar incidents in which more than 100 Palestinians trying to receive aid were killed.
Currently, dozens of Palestinians remain critically injured, with wounds to their upper bodies, chests and heads. Doctors say it has become very challenging to save their lives.
Palestinians in Gaza all say the only reason they go to these distribution points is because they are starving and have no other way to feed their families.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports.
Killed trying to collect food: Family of Palestinian man say he was executed
7,717 views Jun 7, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #WarCrimes #Rafah
More on one of our top stories – the Israeli attacks at food distribution sites run by a controversial Israeli-backed group.
The family of a Palestinian man killed says he was shot at close range.
Ameen Khalifa was one of thousands of people waiting to collect something to eat in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
Al Jazeera’s Caley Callahan reports.
UNICEF spokesman ‘shocked’ by extent of malnutrition in Gaza
10,993 views Jun 5, 2025 #GazaWar #Hamas #Israel
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it’s closing its distribution centres to improve efficiency.
For four days in a row, Palestinians queueing for food have been killed at the sites.
The UN says the attacks constitute a war crime.
UNICEF spokesman James Elder, currently in Gaza, has described the “horrors” he witnessed within just 24 hours.
Israel’s militarised aid takeover creates ‘absurd theatre’ in Gaza: Dr Mads Gilbert
9,870 views Jun 4, 2025 #GazaWar #Hamas #Israel
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it’s closing its distribution centres on Wednesday, saying it needs to improve efficiency.
For four days in a row, Palestinians queueing for food have been killed at the sites.
The UN says the attacks constitute a war crime.
The closure of the distribution centers have left already starving Palestinian with almost no options.
The few charity soup kitchens still operating are overrun – offering desperate people what little they have.
Mads Gilbert, an emergency medicine coordinator who has worked extensively in Gaza, has slammed the Israeli-conceived Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) for sidelining established aid groups and putting starving Palestinians in the line of fire.
The private sector aid mechanism in Gaza is ‘clearly not working’: Analysis
6,546 views Jun 4, 2025 #Palestine #Israel #Gaza
“If you look at the chaos and anarchy on the ground, you know there has to be a better, more efficient way of getting food to people who are clearly starving,” Colin Clarke, the director of research for the Soufan Group, a consultancy firm, tells Al Jazeera.
“This is all part and parcel of the Israeli counterinsurgency strategy to push people into the south, but … the optics of this to the world are becoming quite clear,” he explained.
Clarke stated that, according to some assessments, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation may not be able to continue its operations after the Boston Consulting Group terminated its contract with them.
“There’s the conventional wisdom says that the private sector is inherently more efficient when it comes to certain logistics, but this is a very specialised aid mechanism, delivery of food to starving people in a conflict zone, that should be left to the people and organisations that do this for a living, the neutral and impartial organisations like the United Nations” he said.
Israeli fire kills at least 27 aid seekers in Gaza: Health Ministry
5,969 views Jun 4, 2025 #GazaWar #Hamas #Israel
Israeli forces have killed at least 27 Palestinians and injured 90 more as they opened fire close to an aid distribution site in Rafah, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
The latest killings came early on Tuesday at the Flag Roundabout, near an aid hub operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Palestine.
UN official condemns Israeli killing of Palestinians near aid sites
4,890 views Jun 4, 2025 #GazaWar #Hamas #Israel
It’s been another day of bloodshed in Gaza – where Israeli forces have again opened fire on Palestinians waiting to collect food.
At least 27 people have been killed and dozens injured.
The repeated killings come as the UN agency for Palestinian refugees says the aid centres have become death traps in the Strip.
Jeremy Laurence, spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has voiced deep concern over the killing of more than 100 Palestinians near US-backed aid sites in Gaza.
US-backed aid distribution system in Gaza ‘inhumane’: Charity chief
12,772 views Jun 3, 2025 #Israel #IsraelGazaWar #Rafah
At least 24 Palestinians have been killed and dozens injured in an Israeli attack on people waiting for aid in southern Gaza’s Rafah area at an aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is backed by Israel and the US, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
Bassam Zaqout, director of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, has described the situation at the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund’s (GHF) aid distribution sites as a “death trap”.
“Honestly, it’s an inhumane act,” he told Al Jazeera from Gaza City. “It’s a war crime … shooting towards civilians directly while they are waiting for aid.”
Zaqout added that there was no clear eligibility criteria as to who should be receiving aid on any particular day.
Israeli forces fire on starving civilians at GHF aid hub in southern Gaza, killing 3 and injuring 35
7,595 views Jun 2, 2025 #Israel #IsraelGazaWar #Palestine
Israeli forces opened fire on starving civilians waiting for food near the site in southern Gaza.
At least 31 Palestinians were killed and more than 200 were injured at the same hub on Sunday.
The distribution centre is operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an organisation backed by Israel and the US.
More than 50 Palestinians have been killed across the Strip since early Sunday.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports from outside al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
Gaza hunger crisis: US-backed aid becomes ‘death trap’ under Israeli fire
6,583 views Jun 2, 2025 #Palestine #Israel #Gaza
Gaza’s civilians face impossible choices: risk Israeli drone strikes at US-backed aid sites or starve as food prices soar and markets empty. The new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, replacing UNRWA, is accused of weaponising aid, with distribution points becoming “death traps.”
Hospitals battle malnutrition-induced anaemia, leaving even blood donors too weak to contribute. “This is famine parallel to genocide,” says one woman, describing hours-long queues for scraps of food. Despite ceasefire talks, Israel’s blockade ensures aid remains insufficient and unsafe to access.
Doctors report widespread immunodeficiency as hunger becomes a deadlier threat than bombs. With crossings closed and infrastructure destroyed, Gaza’s survival hinges on urgent, unimpeded humanitarian access.
Al Jazeera’s Wilson Dizard reports.
Operating theatres overwhelmed after Israeli attack on Rafah aid site: Plastic surgeon
2,2235 views Jun 2, 2025 #Palestine #Gaza #Israel
Israeli forces have killed at least 31 Palestinians gathering to collect food near an aid distribution site in southern Gaza.
The hub is operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a controversial organisation backed by the US and Israel.
There’s also been an attack at another GHF site in central Gaza, killing at least one person.
Tom Potoka, a consultant plastic surgeon at Nassar Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, has described to Al Jazeera the chaotic aftermath of the Israeli attack on a food distribution site in Rafah.
Israel kills at least 31 Palestinians waiting for food at US-backed Gaza aid sites
2,857 views Jun 2, 2025 #Palestine #Gaza #Israel
Israeli tanks have opened fire on a group of desperate Palestinians, gathered near an aid distribution site in Rafah, in southern Gaza.
At least 31 people were killed and more than a hundred others injured.
The distribution point is managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – a controversial group backed by both Israel and the US.
Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig reports.
Breaking News: Israeli attacks US-backed GHF aid hubs in Gaza kill 31 and injure dozens
16,537 views Jun 1, 2025 #Palestine #Israel #Gaza
Israeli forces open fire on Palestinians gathered at aid distribution sites run by a US-backed group in southern and central Gaza, killing at least 30 people in Rafah and one more near the Netzarim Corridor and injuring dozens.
The aid site is under the control of the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is backed by the US and Israel.
The United Nations has accused the organisation of weaponising aid, warning that it could serve to depopulate northern Gaza, as planned by the Israeli military.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
To discuss this further, we are joined by Dr Bassam Zaqout, Director of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, speaking from Gaza City.
Shot searching for food: At least 20 Palestinians wounded near Netzarim
6,962 views May 31, 2025 #aljazeeralivenews #aljazeeraenglish #israel
Israeli forces have shot and wounded at least 20 Palestinians as they tried to collect food at a distribution site. Crowds were gathered near the Netzarim Corridor when shots were fired, sending them fleeing. There have been similar scenes of desperation in several locations throughout the week. At least 10 Palestinians have been killed trying to collect food.
Gaza food desperation: Chaos and violence in food distribution centres
15,189 views May 30, 2025 #AlJazeeraEnglish #GazaCrisis #GazaFamine
For months, aid agencies have warned that Israel is weaponizing famine in Gaza. Now, controversy is growing around food distribution hubs established by the US-backed, Israeli-approved Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Palestinians have described scenes of lawlessness, gunfire, and despair at sites meant to provide lifesaving supplies.
Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports.
Chaos at Gaza aid distribution points ‘predictable and preventable’: Analysis
7,841 views May 30, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #Israel #Gaza
Shaina Low, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s (NRC) communications adviser in Palestine, says the scenes of Palestinians desperately seeking food highlight the risks involved in bypassing coordinated humanitarian distribution systems.
“What we’re seeing now – people walking tens of kilometres to access distribution sites, the chaos that is unfolding, the way that Palestinians are being corralled to reach aid – it’s just devastating,” Low told Al Jazeera from Amman, Jordan.
“People have been suffering for nearly 20 months of hostilities now and are desperate for any type of food or any type of assistance to help them and their families survive. No one should be subjected to this type of undignified treatment and the danger that it poses for civilians.”
Low added that these distribution sites are being used “to advance Israel’s political and military objectives” to displace Palestinians. In contrast, humanitarian groups such as the NRC and the United Nations deliver assistance directly to people in need, where they are.
“That ensures that vulnerable people … don’t have to go long distances. We make sure that aid reaches people in need and is fit for what their needs are. The boxes that they have been receiving are nowhere near adequate to meet the desperate needs of a population that’s been starved for the past 80-plus days.”
Multiple explosions near food distribution point in central Gaza
47,444 views May 29, 2025 #GazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Hamas
There have been multiple explosions near a food distribution point opened by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the centre of the Strip.
That’s after Israeli shots were fired near one of their aid points in the south on Wednesday.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum has the latest from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Palestine.
War on eating in Gaza: Kitchens and food centres targeted by Israeli strikes
13,691 views May 29, 2025 #GazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #GazaCrisis
For months, aid groups have warned starvation is becoming a central weapon in Israel’s war on Gaza. Now, an Al Jazeera investigation has revealed that dozens of community kitchens that are lifelines for displaced Palestinians, have been systematically targeted in Israeli air strikes.
Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall reports.
Israeli officials vow to starve Palestinians as hunger crisis deepens | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
7,185 views May 29, 2025 #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeera #aljazeeranewslive
On World Hunger Day, Palestinians continue to starve in Gaza, a day after a chaotic rush on an Israeli- and US-backed distribution point delivering the first aid since Israel’s March blockade. Some Israelis oppose even this minimal relief. Here’s what they’ve been saying.
UN, aid groups slam US-Israel-backed initiative after deadly rush in Gaza
27,725 views May 28, 2025 #GazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Hamas
Three people have been killed and dozens injured during attempts by a controversial aid group to distribute food to thousands of starving Palestinians in Gaza.
The US and Israel back the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
But the UN and aid groups have rejected the role of the foundation, saying it appears to “weaponise aid”.
Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall reports and Tareq Abu Azzoum has the latest updates from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Palestine.
Gaza humanitarian foundation chaos: Starved Palestinians storm distribution area near Rafah
10,796 views May 28, 2025 #aljazeeraenglish #IsraelGazaWar #Israel
Chaos erupted at aid distribution centers in Rafah, southern Gaza, as the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation started its operations on Tuesday. The controversial US-Israeli organization was brought in instead of UNRWA and other agencies for the delivery of aid to people in the Gaza strip.
Al Jazeera’s Mohamed Vall reports.
Gaza starvation crisis: Israel releases video of aid distribution point
85,892 views May 28, 2025 #aljazeeralivenews #aljazeeraenglish #IsraelGazaWar
The Israeli military has released footage of a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution centre, hours before the chaos unfolded. This centre is intended to serve hundreds of thousands of people, who had received little or no food for months, and replace those established by the UN and other independent charities.
Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut joins now from the Jordanian capital Amman. She’s there because the Israeli government has banned Al Jazeera from reporting inside Israel and the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports from Gaza City.
Gaza hunger crisis: Desperate crowds storm US aid distribution site in Rafah as operation collapses
203,805 views May 28, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #Israel #Gaza
Chaotic scenes unfolded in Rafah, southern Gaza, as Palestinians rushed a US aid distribution site in Tal as-Sultan, prompting American security personnel to fire warning shots. Israeli forces reportedly intervened remotely to disperse crowds. Israeli Army radio cited security sources distancing Israel from the incident while confirming US contractors regained control. The aid was distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a controversial organisation established after Israel blocked UN access in March. Footage shows desperate civilians amid strict aid restrictions. The foundation’s private contractor-led operations have drawn criticism for lacking UN neutrality protocols. This incident highlights escalating tensions over aid delivery in the besieged enclave.
Al Jazeera’s correspondents are tracking developments across key locations, including Hind Khoudary and Hani Mahmoud in Gaza, and Kristen Saloomey at the United Nations in New York. We’re also joined by analysts and experts: Tamer Qarmout, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, speaking from Doha; Ahmed Bayram, Middle East Spokesperson for the Norwegian Refugee Council, joining us from Amman; and Chris Gunness, former Chief Spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, speaking from London.
Widely condemned US-Israeli-backed aid group starts operations in Gaza
37,119 views May 27, 2025 #GazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Hamas
A controversial aid group, backed by the US and Israel, says it has begun operations in Gaza, despite objections from the United Nations.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it’s now opened its first distribution hubs in southern Gaza.
On Sunday, its executive director resigned, saying the mission couldn’t adhere to humanitarian principles.
The UN and other aid groups say the scheme would force further displacement of Palestinians and could breach international law.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum has more about the challenges faced by Palestinians to reach supplies of aid in Gaza.
US-Israel aid plan ‘washes’ Gaza genocide, says ex-UNRWA spokesperson
17,598 views May 27, 2025 #IsraelGazaWar #Gaza #Palestine
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) will begin aid distribution despite director Jake Wood’s resignation, citing incompatibility with humanitarian principles. In an Al Jazeera interview, former UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness condemned the plan as “aid washing,” accusing Israel of weaponising assistance to justify “ethnic cleansing and genocide.” He warned private contractors would repeat disasters like February’s “flour massacre,” stressing only UNRWA could deliver aid at scale. Gunness compared Gaza’s starving children to “Holocaust survivors,” demanding Western states halt arms sales and enforce ICJ rulings. He dismissed GHF’s armed distribution hubs as mercenary-led failures, noting the $230m US floating pier had already washed away. Urging immediate UNRWA upscaling, he declared current policies “unspinnable” as famine looms. His remarks underscored the growing rift between UN agencies and the US-Israeli aid model.
Executive director of US-Israeli backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation resigns after two months
42,488 views May 26, 2025 #GazaWar #AlJazeeraEnglish #Hamas
Palestinians desperate for humanitarian aid have swamped one of the first trucks delivering supplies to northern Gaza, in months.
After more than 80 days of a total blockade, Israel has started allowing a limited amount of supplies into some parts of the Strip.
The Israeli army says it’s allowed more than 100 trucks carrying flour, food and medicine.
NGOs and other groups say at least 500 trucks are needed every day, to make a tangible difference.
And there’s been a blow to a US-Israeli plan to bring aid into Gaza.
The executive director of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, tasked with leading new aid distribution efforts, has resigned with immediate effect.
Jake Wood’s resignation comes just two months after he was asked to lead the organisation.
Robert Patman is a professor of international relations at the University of Otago. He explains why Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s Executive Director may have stepped down from the role.
