Overview

• Nineteen Palestinians were trampled and one fatally stabbed in a crowd surge at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation center in Khan Younis, which GHF blamed on armed agitators affiliated with Hamas.
• The United Nations rights office reports at least 875 Palestinians have been killed near aid distribution sites and convoys in Gaza over the past six weeks, with the majority occurring around GHF-run points.
• GHF introduced a red-and-green flag system at its Khan Younis distribution hub this week to signal when aid sites are open or closed in an effort to reduce deadly incidents.
• Major UN agencies and NGOs continue to boycott the biometric and flagged distribution model, calling it inherently unsafe and a breach of humanitarian impartiality, while GHF and the IDF defend the system as vital to prevent Hamas looting.
• Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories says thousands of UN agency pallets remain uncollected due to security risks and coordination hurdles that are delaying humanitarian access.