Overview

• The United Nations Human Rights Office labeled the use of food as a weapon in Gaza a war crime and demanded that Israeli forces cease firing on civilians seeking aid.
• Overnight fire by Israeli troops near GHF distribution sites killed at least 46 people, raising the total death toll since late May to more than 516 with nearly 3,800 injured.
• The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s opaque financing and links to U.S. and Israeli backers have led the UN and key NGOs to refuse any collaboration.
• A coalition of human rights groups has warned that the GHF’s privatized, militarized aid model could amount to complicity in war crimes and called for its operations to stop.
• France, Qatar and Germany have urged Israel to allow massive, unrestricted humanitarian access and to negotiate an immediate ceasefire as famine looms.