170 charities and NGOs call for U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza aid distribution to be shut down

Charity and aid groups said in a joint statement that more than 500 Palestinians had been killed and almost 4,000 injured in less than four weeks while trying to access or distribute food in Gaza.

As many as 170 charities and aid groups called for the end of the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and accused Israeli forces and armed groups of “routinely” opening fire on Palestinians seeking aid.

Some of the world’s largest charity organizations, including Oxfam, Amnesty International and Save the Children, said in a joint statement Tuesday that more than 500 Palestinians had been killed and almost 4,000 injured in less than four weeks while trying to access or distribute food in Gaza.

They added that GHF's plan was forcing 2 million starving people to trek through dangerous terrain and active conflict zones to reach the militarized distribution sites, where they have to “fight” for limited food supplies in “chaotic enclosures.”

“These areas have become sites of repeated massacres in blatant disregard for international humanitarian law,” they said in their statement.