Since Israel destroyed the UN-run humanitarian aid distribution system in Gaza in May 2025, medics working under siege have observed a clear link between spikes in gunshot wounds and food distribution days.

Numerous videos show attempts to collect food, now managed by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), taking place under machine gun fire. According to the UN, since May 27, 2025, at least 1,400 Palestinians have been killed while searching for food, mainly near GHF distribution sites or along aid convoy routes.

An investigation by the British newspaper The Guardian confirms allegations that the Israeli army is firing on Palestinian civilians trying to collect food parcels. Gaza is facing starvation caused by Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

GHF, a private military organization created with the support of the Trump administration, has imposed opaque management of the scarce and deadly distribution of basic necessities.

Currently the only organization authorized to operate in the Gaza Strip, despite international law requiring aid to be provided independently, impartially, and safely, GHF has been accused of repeated massacres of civilians during food distributions. The four locations where these attacks take place are in evacuation zones designated by the Israeli army and therefore constitute areas of immediate danger.

"If we combine the visual evidence of machine gun fire, the accounts of Palestinian witnesses, and the reports of hospital doctors describing a staggering number of patients admitted with gunshot wounds, unprecedented in scale throughout the previous year of the war, with the very solid evidence provided by the extraction and analysis of bullets retrieved from patients, we get a very clear picture of the situation," notes Manisha Ganguly, an investigative journalist at The Guardian.

According to her, "there is a huge amount of evidence suggesting that the Israeli army fired indiscriminately and with extreme intensity at Palestinians seeking food." The testimony of Professor Nick Maynard, a consultant surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals who has been working regularly in Gaza for fifteen years and has led three missions to Nasser Hospital since the start of the war, confirms the deliberate targeting of civilians, including minors, as reported by the journalist. He said that on some days he noticed that certain parts of the body were particularly targeted. One night when he was on duty, Al-Nasser Hospital admitted four teenagers, all with gunshot wounds to the testicles. On other days, he saw patterns of gunshot wounds to the neck, head, or arms, and told me that the concentration of such injuries in a single day suggested that this was a deliberate activity. I BGNES