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Rabat – In yet another failure to provide relief to Gaza’s starved population, all distribution centers run by the US-Israel backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) were shut down on Wednesday.
The GHF explained the closure was for “renovation, reorganization and efficiency improvement,” according to a social media post announcing that it will resume operations on Thursday.
“Due to the ongoing updates, entry to the distribution center areas is slowly prohibited! Please do not go to the site and follow general instructions.”
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) declared that roads leading to the GHF distribution centers would now be treated as “combat zones,” effectively criminalizing access to food and making it a death sentence for desperate Palestinians.
Just one day earlier, the IOF had once again opened fire on starving civilians gathered near a GHF site, killing at least 27 Palestinians and injuring over 100 more — fueling widespread condemnation that the US-Israel constructed aid system is little more than a trap, funneling desperate people into IOF kill zones.
Since the GHF began operations on May 27, the IOF has killed at least 102 Palestinians and injured nearly 460 others at or near its aid distribution points. All four of the GHF’s sites have been targeted by the IOF within just eight days, with scenes of slaughtered civilians clutching food packages in their final moments — a haunting testament to the cruelty of Israel’s ongoing genocide.
As is custom for a regime used to impunity, the IOF attempted to justify the attacks by claiming they had “identified suspects who deviated from the designated access routes”— a familiar line used to euthanize unarmed civilians.
Eyewitnesses, aid workers, and medical personnel have widely rejected this narrative, describing scenes where Israeli tanks, drones, and helicopters opened fire on crowds of hungry civilians in western Rafah. A foreign medic on the ground called it “total carnage,” as already overwhelmed hospitals were flooded with gunshot victims.
A logistical and moral failure
The GHF, now under mounting scrutiny, has been slammed by the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations for failing to meet even the most basic standards of humanitarian aid. UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric condemned the GHF as “a demonstration of how not to do humanitarian aid,” warning that it places civilian lives directly in harm’s way.
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of UNRWA, echoed these concerns, bluntly stating that aid under GHF has “become a death trap.” The criticism centers on the GHF’s lack of transparency, the presence of unidentified armed men at its sites, and the complete absence of accountability.
The GHF was created as a poor substitute to replace UNRWA, a critical, decades-old agency for Palestinian rights that has been falsely and politically targeted with accusations of Hamas affiliation — part of Israel’s broader campaign to dismantle Palestinian institutions.
Unlike UNRWA and other humanitarian agencies grounded in international law, the GHF is run by private contractors, US firms, and under direct Israeli oversight — placing the very architects and enforcers of Gaza’s genocide and mass starvation in control of the few crumbs of aid allowed in.
The result is a grotesque conflict of interest, where the occupier pretends to feed the very people it is actively exterminating.
