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Israel Destroys 1000 Food Trucks Rather Than Feed Gazans

CrossFireArabia
July 26, 2025

Israel’s army has destroyed massive amounts of humanitarian aid meant for Gaza, including food, medical supplies, and bottled water, according to a report by Israel’s public broadcaster Kan.

The spoiled aid, left rotting at the Kerem Shalom crossing for weeks, was buried or burned. “We buried everything in the ground, even burned some of it,” said an Israeli army source. “Even today, there are thousands of packages waiting in the sun. If they are not transferred into Gaza, we will be forced to destroy them too.”

The aid totaled over 1,000 truckloads, the source added.

Military officials blamed the destruction on what they called a failed aid distribution mechanism, referring to the Israeli-US Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). “The mechanism simply doesn’t work,” one officer said. “The trucks are stuck. There is no functioning coordination. The roads are damaged. Nothing is moving.”

Thousands of packages continue to sit at the crossing point, rotting in the heat.

Officials said that even during previous ceasefire deals, large quantities of aid never reached Palestinian civilians. “During the prisoner exchange deal, 4,500 trucks allegedly entered daily. Much of it never left the crossing area,” the army source said.

Currently, only about 100 to 150 trucks enter Gaza daily, a fraction of the need. That aid too is reportedly “spoiling fast.”

Israeli military officials also dismissed suggestions of air-dropping aid into Gaza. “That has already failed, just like the seaport idea,” one said.

This revelation comes as Israel continues to starved Palestinians in Gaza for over 145 days. Over 122 people, most of them are babies, were staved to death by Israel according to Quds News Network.

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Starvation in The Gaza Genocide

CrossFireArabia
July 20, 2025

Gaza is starving. There has never been like it in this Israeli-induced and enforced genocide that has now been going on for about 19 months and counting.

People are literally falling in the streets and in front of the television cameras because of the biting hunger that doesn’t seem to end at the hands of a merciless Israeli enemy.

Of the people who manage to get to the dilapidated and destroyed hospitals they are dropping off on the doors of these institutions with many losing consciousness and even shrieking the last breath of death. And people die while the people in the world looks on with lavish feasts.

UNRWA says Israeli is systematically and willfully starving the Palestinian population into submission; they want them either dead or expel from their ancestral homes in the Gaza Strip. The UN refugee organization says that up to 1 million children are threatened with death through starvation. These figures are given as they are the most natural thing in the world.

This is one of the worst periods of the genocide as Arab and Israeli makers meet in Doha and elsewhere try to end this nightmare but to no avail as politics over-rides common sense and decency.

Dr Mohammad Abu Salmiyah, director of the Al Shifa Hospital says that neither patients nor medical staff nor ancillary personnel in the whole of the Gaza hospitals, which number 36 in total, have had anything to eat in the last 24 hours.

Al Jazeera correspondent Anis Alsharif says neither him nor the other anchors have had a bite to eat since Saturday afternoon because there isn’t any. People around here walk aimless until their last breath of death. Yet people, except for the frail seems to go on, as if their is an ordained hand telling, forcing them to go on.

The Israelis have refused to let anything into Gaza since last March when they realized that there was a possibility that Palestinians would flourish again; and this is after they threw on them around 100,000 tons of bombs, facilitated by their American benefactors – a situation that begun soon after, 7 October, 2023.

There is simply no food into the strip thanks to Israel. Even animal fodder, which Gazans had been reduced to eating in order to survive in the first period of starvation in 2024 and early 2025, has run out. Then fodder like wheat and barely was eaten to survive, but this appears to be the end game.

In this brave new world of starvation and famine, food has become a scarce, nay, non-existent commodity because of Israeli policies to beat the Palestinians with but they will not win despite the evil intentions.

UNRWA continues to appeal to the international community to force Israel to lift its tight and claustrophobic siege on Gaza and let the aid, food and medicine into the strip. Meanwhile, it says it has its cargoes lying in the Sinai Peninsula waiting to be delivered to the starving people of Gaza. It says in its storehouses, it has three months of supplies but it’s waiting for the might of Israel to upon up the borders.

Meanwhile people are continuing to die starting from Rafah, in Khan Younis in the center of the Strip to the far-northern areas in Jabalia, Biet Lahia and Biet Hanoon where fighting is still going on between Palestinian resistance fighters and the Israeli army.

In comes the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation which has since last May tried to provide food parcels at distribution centers run by US and Israeli personnel and which is today turning into a “free-shooting killing field” of starving Palestinian that has young been denounced by the United Nations as “weaponizing food” with very sinister connotations that include depopulating Gaza of its original inhabitants.

Seeing is believing. Palestinians, and on a daily basis, and under the eyes of the world are shot fatally on a daily basis. Take Sunday for example, the number of those that have killed is already in the 60s. As they run to get their food parcels they are shot by Israeli soldiers guarding the distribution centers. They are shot with no compunctions but with a sense of hellish deliverance.

And it is the social media who are narrating, nay “dancing” on the graves of the Palestinians. This war is probably the most documented set of atrocities, but people, the international community, gaze on with a sense of helpless, frustration and complicity. Professor Amos Goldberg, who teaches Holocaust Studies at the Hebrew University, doesn’t mince words. He says this is a “disgusting genocide”.

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Starvation Centers, Death Traps

CrossFireArabia
July 19, 2025

The deaths of 21 Palestinian civilians by suffocation, crowd crush, and live fire from US security forces operating in coordination with the Israeli army at an aid distribution centre in Rafah expose the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) as an active instrument of the systematic mass killing and starvation policies imposed on Gaza.

These centres are no longer relief sites but death traps, deliberately used to lure starving crowds in scenes marked by humiliation and genocide, which constitutes a grave violation of international law and requires the immediate suspension of GHF’s operations, an urgent investigation, and full criminal accountability.

Documentation by Euro-Med Monitor’s field team revealed that the attack on Wednesday, 16 July 2025, occurred in two phases. The first happened around 4:00 a.m., when Israeli forces opened fire on thousands of civilians gathered on al-Tina Street, north of Rafah, as food aid trucks were being unloaded, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. Despite the gunfire and casualties, thousands remained. They had no choice but to wait or starve, especially after a GHF worker told them distribution would begin at 6:00 a.m.

Those who fell to the ground could not get up and were trampled. I saw women and children among the victims, and we only managed to escape by stepping over the dead bodies lying there

Abdul Rahman B., one of the survivors

The second phase happened at 6:20 a.m., when crowds surged toward the outer gate of the distribution centre amid severe overcrowding and the closure of the inner gate. This led to a deadly crowd crush, with no safety measures or immediate intervention to prevent or contain the disaster.

Instead of organising the crowds and ensuring their safety, US special forces used pepper spray and fired sound bombs and tear gas at civilians trapped between the outer and inner gates, triggering panic and chaos. Thousands tried to escape, while some attempted to jump into the distribution centre to avoid overcrowding and certain death, only to be met with live fire as well.

The open fire and the resulting violent crowd crush caused the deaths of at least 21 Palestinians, including seven killed by live ammunition and 15 from tear gas inhalation and the crush, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

A review by Euro-Med Monitor of several casualties found no signs of bullet wounds, supporting the conclusion that most victims died from suffocation or being trampled in a closed, overcrowded space with no protective measures in place.

Abdul Rahman B., one of the survivors, told Euro-Med Monitor’s team: “At around 6:15 a.m., a quadcopter arrived and announced that the distribution centre had been opened and required that we head to the gates.”

“People rushed frantically toward the entrances, and when we reached the front gate, we found the inner gate closed and a heavy presence of US forces accompanied by employees speaking Arabic,” said Abdul Rahman. “They asked us to step back 50 metres and enter in groups of no more than 100, but the crowding was so intense that stepping back was impossible.”

He continued: “Minutes later, they began firing sound bombs, followed by tear gas and pepper spray. People were disoriented and suffocating. Some tried to climb the fences to escape, but snipers shot them. Those who fell to the ground could not get up and were trampled. I saw women and children among the victims, and we only managed to escape by stepping over the dead bodies lying there.”

This incident demonstrates that aid distribution centres were deliberately placed in dangerous locations, designed with narrow paths enclosed by barbed-wire fences that can be easily sealed. These routes cannot accommodate the vast numbers of people in need and are fully controlled by the Israeli army, making them resemble elaborate traps for killing and humiliation rather than corridors for humanitarian aid.

GHF, established by Israel to manage its starvation policy, issued a brief statement claiming to have opened an investigation into the incident. This follows a familiar propaganda pattern: whenever starving civilians are killed, an internal investigation is announced, its results are never released, no one is held accountable, and the same crime is repeated without consequence.

An investigation by an organisation established within a framework designed to perpetuate starvation can hardly be considered credible. Given its direct role in managing starvation, GHF must be immediately dismantled and its mandate withdrawn. It operates under the guise of humanitarian work, failing as a neutral intermediary for aid delivery.

GHF functions as a field instrument of blockade, starvation, and killing by operating distribution centres designed to humiliate civilians and gather them in tightly controlled locations under the pretext of “organising” crowds. Rather than protecting those in need, it facilitates the implementation of engineered starvation and creates a closed environment where civilians are killed in the name of humanitarian aid.

Even when a threat is alleged, international law requires security forces to apply force in a proportionate and graduated manner, using lethal force only as a last resort and in response to an imminent and real threat to life. This standard was not met in the documented cases, making the killings a grave and flagrant violation of international law.

The deliberate targeting of Palestinian civilians as they seek food, along with the use of starvation as a weapon, is a clear violation of international humanitarian and criminal law. These acts constitute war crimes under the Rome Statute, including wilful killing, targeting civilians, and using starvation as a method of warfare, all of which are strictly prohibited in armed conflicts.

The widespread and systematic nature of these violations against the civilian population fulfils the elements of crimes against humanity, particularly killing, persecution, and inhumane acts causing severe suffering or serious physical or mental harm, when committed as part of a systematic attack targeting civilians.

Placing these crimes in their broader context, including the systematic destruction of means of survival, the denial of aid access, and the imposition of deadly living conditions on the civilian population, along with public incitement by Israeli political and military figures, reveals a clear and deliberate intent to destroy the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. According to Article II of the Genocide Convention, these acts constitute genocide, specifically through the intentional killing of members of the group and the imposition of living conditions calculated to bring about its physical destruction, in whole or in part.

The international community and complicit governments bear responsibility for the continued crimes against starving civilians at GHF-run aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip. An immediate halt to GHF operations is essential, along with the launch of an independent international investigation leading to the prosecution of its officials before international and national courts for their involvement in systematic mass killings at distribution sites imposed by the Israeli army as a replacement for the UN mechanism that had operated in the enclave for nearly a year and a half.

International and national judicial bodies must move to hold US President Donald Trump criminally accountable for his complicity in the genocide in the Gaza Strip. This includes his adoption and direct support of the Israeli aid distribution mechanism, imposed by force and transformed into arenas of mass slaughter against starving civilians, as well as his administration’s full-scale provision of military, financial, political, and diplomatic backing that enabled Israel to commit and expand the crime for over 21 months.

The United States, through this organisation and other instruments, continues to provide political, logistical, financial, and military cover for Israel’s crimes, rendering current and former American officials, foremost among them President Donald Trump, subject to international criminal accountability.

Euro-Med Monitor calls for holding all state leaders involved in the genocide committed in the Gaza Strip accountable, whether through direct or indirect participation, by providing political, military, or financial support, or by facilitating its commission in any form. Such acts constitute criminal complicity under Article 25 of the Rome Statute. It holds states that failed to take serious measures to prevent or stop the crime legally responsible under their international obligations, particularly under the Genocide Convention.

A comprehensive and independent international investigation must be launched into the role of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in facilitating and executing serious crimes committed against Palestinian civilians. These investigations should address the individual responsibility of the organisation’s founders, directors, logistics coordinators, team leaders, and any other staff members, whether through planning, facilitating, directly contributing, or knowingly failing to prevent the commission of crimes.

We urge all states with territorial or universal jurisdiction to open immediate criminal investigations against all individuals affiliated with the GHF and its contracted private security firms, in order to hold them accountable for their role in crimes committed against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, particularly including wilful killings, starvation, and cruel or degrading treatment.

All states, both individually and collectively, must fulfil their legal responsibilities by taking urgent action to stop the genocide in the Gaza Strip, through implementing effective measures to protect Palestinian civilians; ensuring Israel’s compliance with international law and the decisions of the International Court of Justice; preventing the implementation of the US-Israeli forced displacement plan; and holding Israel and its more powerful allies accountable for all crimes against the Palestinians in the Strip. The International Criminal Court must implement the arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister and Minister of Defence at the earliest opportunity, in accordance with the principle that there is no immunity for international crimes.

The international community must also impose economic, diplomatic, and military sanctions on Israel for its systematic and grave violations of international law. These sanctions should include an arms embargo; an end to all political, financial, and military support; freezing the assets of officials involved in crimes against Palestinians; imposing travel ban on these officials; suspending the operations of Israeli military and security industries companies in international markets; banning involved companies’ access to banking services; and suspending trade privileges and bilateral agreements that provide Israel with economic benefits that enable its continued crimes.

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Gaza Relief: Bread Soaked in Blood

CrossFireArabia
June 18, 2025

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is directly responsible for the escalating Israeli crimes against starved Palestinian civilians near aid distribution points in central and southern Gaza

The foundation’s operational model involves luring civilians to specific locations coordinated with the Israeli army, where they are subjected to killing, injury, and cruel and degrading treatment. These points have effectively become death traps used as tools in Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian population for over 20 months.

On Tuesday morning, at least 80 Palestinians were killed and 200 others injured by Israeli fire near a US-backed aid distribution point in eastern Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, as they approached the site to collect aid.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor calls for an independent international investigation into the foundation’s role and for its officials to be held criminally accountable for the crimes they facilitated—whether through planning, enabling, or remaining silent.

Euro-Med Monitor further urges donors to immediately halt all financial or logistical support to the foundation and to blacklist it among entities complicit in grave violations of international law.

The foundation’s continued operation of these sites—despite documentation of over 380 deaths in just three weeks—cannot be seen as incidental or isolated incidents. Rather, it constitutes direct involvement in the crime of starvation and the systematic targeting of civilians, a flagrant violation of humanitarian neutrality, and a clear contribution to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and complicity in genocide.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a press statement that Israel has killed around 385 Palestinians and injured over 3,000 others since it imposed its aid distribution mechanism in the Gaza Strip on 27 May until 16 June. The Monitor explained that the mechanism relies on luring thousands of starving civilians each day to two main distribution centres—one near the “Netzarim corridor” in central Gaza and the other in Rafah, southern Gaza. Civilians are forced to walk long, exposed routes stretching for several kilometres, only to come under direct fire from military vehicles, drones, helicopters, and artillery shells. Large numbers are killed or wounded, while only the lucky few who survive the deadly journey reach the distribution points to receive a meagre amount of food that fails to meet even the minimum survival needs.

The Israeli army usually ignores the crimes it commits against starved civilians near aid distribution points. In the rare instances when it issues statements, it offers vague and generic narratives, often citing the presence of “suspects” near the forces—claims that are never substantiated with credible evidence. On the contrary, field data indicates that the victims are civilians, including women, children, and the elderly.

The investigations the Israeli army claims to open are even rarer than its public statements. These investigations are often superficial, left incomplete, their findings withheld, or they result in no real accountability. This reflects a systematic policy aimed at concealing evidence and ensuring impunity for perpetrators—a policy that spans decades of documented Israeli violations that have faced no serious accountability, including those committed as part of the ongoing crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip.

Euro-Med Monitor holds the international community responsible for allowing the continuation and escalation of systematic crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against starved civilians near the so-called aid distribution centres in central and southern Gaza. The failure of influential states to take deterrent measures—and their inability to exert any meaningful pressure to stop Israel’s crimes, including the continued operation of its inhumane aid distribution mechanism—has effectively provided political and practical cover for Israel to persist in using these centres as sites of mass killing and for carrying out practices that violate Palestinians’ most basic rights and demean their human dignity.

Israel, which is using starvation as a central tool in committing the crime of genocide, cannot under any circumstances be considered a legitimate party in any humanitarian operation

Relevant states and UN bodies have effectively abandoned their legal and moral obligations to protect civilians and prevent the worsening of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. They have refrained from taking firm measures—not only to hold Israel accountable for killing starved civilians but even to protect the UN-led aid delivery mechanism, which Israel has deliberately undermined through siege and armed force, in blatant and dangerous defiance of the international system and the principles it was founded upon.

International reactions have often been limited to ineffective verbal condemnations, falling far short of any meaningful action. This has enabled Israel to continue committing its crimes without real cost, leaving civilians to face death—either from starvation or from gunfire—as they follow the same path drawn by the occupying power under the guise of “humanitarian aid.”

Continuing to allow Israel to carry out such serious crimes against Palestinians in Gaza—killing and injuring hundreds daily as they attempt to access limited food aid—entails international legal responsibility for states with the capacity to influence events, particularly those that continue to provide political or military support to Israel.

The failure to take effective measures—such as imposing sanctions or exerting genuine pressure to halt these crimes—constitutes, under international law, direct contribution to the crime or responsibility for failing to prevent it despite having the proven ability to do so. This establishes legal liability for those states as parties that have, through action or inaction, contributed to the continuation of the crime.

Since Israel imposed its own mechanism for the distribution of humanitarian aid, Euro-Med Monitor has documented the involvement of Israeli occupation forces—alongside local gangs operating in coordination with them and personnel from the American security company managing the distribution sites—in the killing of Palestinian civilians as they approached the centres, despite posing no real threat to Israeli forces or security personnel.

Even in cases where an alleged threat exists, international law does not justify the use of lethal force. Security forces are bound by international legal standards to adhere to the principle of proportionality and gradual escalation in the use of force, and are only permitted to resort to deadly force as a last resort—and only in situations where there is an imminent and real threat to life. Such conditions were absent in the documented cases, making these killings a grave and explicit violation of international law.

The deliberate targeting of Palestinian civilians—through killings and injuries as they attempt to access food—combined with the use of starvation as a weapon, constitutes a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and international criminal law. These are war crimes under the Rome Statute, including wilful killing, targeting civilians, and using starvation as a method of warfare—all of which are categorically prohibited during armed conflicts.

The pattern of these violations—characterised by their widespread and systematic nature against the civilian population—meets the legal threshold for crimes against humanity, particularly the crimes of murder, persecution, and inhumane acts causing severe suffering or serious injury to mental or physical health, when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population.

Placing these crimes within their broader context—including the systematic destruction of means of survival, obstruction of humanitarian aid, and the imposition of deadly living conditions on civilians, alongside public statements made by various Israeli political and military officials—reveals a clear and declared intent to destroy the Palestinian population in Gaza. This amounts, under Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to the crime of genocide—specifically through the deliberate killing of members of the group and the imposition of living conditions intended to bring about its physical destruction, in whole or in part.

As the occupying power, Israel bears a legal obligation under international humanitarian law to ensure the entry of humanitarian aid and the fulfilment of the basic needs of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. However, this duty in no way entitles Israel to manage or control the distribution of aid.

Aid distribution must remain exclusively in the hands of neutral and specialised humanitarian actors, and that any military or political interference by Israel in this domain constitutes a serious breach of international law and a deviation from the humanitarian purpose of relief work.

Israel, which is using starvation as a central tool in committing the crime of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza with the aim of destroying them as a national group, cannot under any circumstances be considered a legitimate party in any humanitarian operation. Involving Israel in organising or overseeing aid delivery only serves to turn the aid itself into a means of annihilating the population and imposing coercive options on survivors—paving the way for their forced displacement as part of a colonial project aimed at erasing their presence and forcibly annexing their land.

The refusal of UN agencies and independent humanitarian organisations to cooperate with the Israeli mechanism—due to its lack of even the most basic humanitarian standards—should serve as a clear warning and an urgent call for the international community, especially influential states, to intensify political and diplomatic pressure on Israel. This should guarantee the immediate and unconditional flow of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, end the use of any mechanisms employed as tools of genocide, and take swift action to end the ongoing crime against Gaza’s population since October 2023.

Euro-Med Monitor calls for comprehensive and independent international investigations into the role of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in facilitating and executing serious crimes committed against Palestinian civilians. These investigations should address the individual responsibility of the organisation’s founders, directors, logistics coordinators, team leaders, and any other staff members—whether through planning, facilitating, directly contributing, or knowingly failing to prevent the commission of crimes.

We urge all states with territorial or universal jurisdiction to open immediate criminal investigations against all individuals affiliated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and its contracted private security firms, in order to hold them accountable for their role in crimes committed against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, particularly including wilful killings, starvation, and cruel or degrading treatment.

We further call for the initiation of civil lawsuits before national courts to demand compensation from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and all implicated entities and individuals for the severe harm caused to victims and their families, including deaths, physical and psychological injuries, and the forced deprivation of the rights to life, food, and dignity. Both criminal and civil accountability is essential to ensuring justice for the victims, ending impunity, and preventing the recurrence of such crimes under the guise of humanitarian work.

States and relevant entities must exert all possible pressure on Israel to force it to cease killing starving civilians, immediately end the operation of its inhumane aid distribution mechanism, and push for the urgent restoration of humanitarian access and the lifting of Israel’s unlawful blockade on the Gaza Strip. This is the only viable path to halting the rapid humanitarian collapse and ensuring the unimpeded entry of aid and goods. Safe humanitarian corridors must be established under UN supervision to guarantee the delivery of food, medicine, and fuel to all areas of Gaza, alongside the deployment of independent international observers to monitor compliance.

Euro-Med Monitor also calls on all states, individually and collectively, to uphold their legal obligations and take urgent action to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza in all its forms. It calls for all necessary measures to be taken to protect Palestinian civilians, ensure Israel’s compliance with international law and the rulings of the International Court of Justice, and guarantee accountability for crimes committed against Palestinians. It also urged the enforcement of arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against Israel’s Prime Minister and former Defence Minister at the earliest opportunity, without prejudice to the principle that no immunity applies to international crimes.

Finally, Euro-Med Monitor urges the international community to impose economic, diplomatic, and military sanctions on Israel in response to its systematic and grave violations of international law. This includes a comprehensive ban on the export or import of weapons, spare parts, software, or dual-use items; the suspension of all political, financial, military, intelligence, and security cooperation with Israel; the freezing of assets belonging to political and military officials involved in crimes against Palestinians; travel bans against those officials; the suspension of Israeli military and security companies from international markets and the freezing of their assets in international banks; and the suspension of trade privileges, customs benefits, and bilateral agreements that grant Israel economic advantages enabling it to continue committing crimes against the Palestinian people.