Overview

• The UN rights office has documented at least 875 Palestinians killed near Gaza aid distribution points over the past six weeks, with most fatalities occurring at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites.
• On July 16, twenty people died in a crowd surge at a GHF distribution center in Khan Younis, an incident the foundation attributed to armed agitators linked to Hamas.
• GHF has rolled out a red and green flag system at its southern Gaza sites to indicate when distributions are open or closed following repeated deadly crowd surges.
• UNRWA reports that 10 percent of children screened in its Gaza clinics are acutely malnourished, a rate that has doubled since March’s tightened siege.
• Humanitarian agencies and donors have warned that the US-backed GHF model, operating outside UN coordination, breaches impartiality standards and poses safety risks.