Reported Israeli aid distribution plan in Gaza is inhumane, aims to engineer starvation by Euromed Human Rights Monitor

According to Israeli reports, Israel, in coordination with the United States, is working to establish a new mechanism for delivering humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip through an “international fund” supported by donor countries and institutions. Under this mechanism, the Israeli army will construct aid distribution complexes in certain parts of the Strip. Palestinian families will be permitted to access these complexes once a week to receive a single aid package per family, intended to last seven days. A private American company will manage logistics and provide security within and around the complexes, while the Israeli army will secure the surrounding areas.

While Israel claims the new mechanism is meant to prevent aid from reaching Hamas or being used to support its activities, it in fact reinforces a system of total control over the enclave’s civilian population, turning food, medicine, and water into tools of collective extortion managed by a military-security, rather than a humanitarian-legal, framework.

… Reported details of the new mechanism reveal that it would rely on establishing aid distribution facilities in specific locations—far from densely populated areas and close to Israeli military positions—posing a grave risk to civilians, given that aid would be used as a tool for forced population transfer under a humanitarian guise. Starving families, subjected to a systematic Israeli starvation policy since October 2023, will likely be compelled to relocate near these sites to survive, enabling Israel to depopulate large residential areas and impose a new demographic reality that prevents people’s return.

… Israel’s direct or indirect management of this mechanism could also serve undisclosed purposes, including the collection of updated data on the civilian population—their locations, movements, and displacement patterns—which could then be used to track, monitor, target, and blackmail them. Israel has been illegally collecting data on Palestinian civilians for decades.