Overview
- Gaza-run Health Ministry reports at least 549 people killed and over 4,000 injured since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing aid on May 27.
- Eyewitnesses assert that Israeli forces fired warning and live shots as crowds approached GHF sites in the Netzarim Corridor and other areas.
- Save the Children’s humanitarian director describes the distribution system as “designed to fail” due to unpredictable schedules and chaotic crowds.
- The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation denies the sites are unsafe and says it delivers aid in a “secure, controlled, accountable manner” with monitored corridors.
- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs cautions that unsafe access risks a deeper hunger crisis and potential famine.