Overview

• The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation took over UN-led aid distribution in late May, operating four guarded sites across southern and central Gaza.
• Gaza’s Health Ministry and civil defence report that Israeli fire and tank shells have killed more than 500 Palestinians seeking rations at GHF distribution points.
• The UN human rights office declared the ‘weaponisation of food’ a war crime and UNRWA’s head labeled the system an “abomination” that degrades desperate civilians.
• The US is fast-tracking a $30 million emergency grant to sustain the GHF network after it struggled to operate in Gaza’s devastated infrastructure.
• International mediators from Qatar, Egypt and the US are working to revive ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas amid the expanding humanitarian crisis.