The Israeli regime has destroyed vast stockpiles of essential supplies meant for Gaza, including food and medicine, as the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) warns that mass starvation in the strip is “deliberate.”
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported that the Israeli military has destroyed tens of thousands of relief packages, including significant amounts of food and medicine, meant for the starving people of Gaza.
Citing Israeli military sources, the broadcaster said that over 1,000 truckloads of humanitarian aid were deliberately destroyed. “There are thousands of parcels left under the sun, and if they are not transported to Gaza, we will be forced to destroy them,” the sources said, as the occupying regime has blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza since March.
Amid worldwide condemnation of the weaponization of food in Gaza, the Israeli regime claimed the destruction was due to alleged failures in the “aid distribution mechanism” within the strip.
Meanwhile, Israel has bypassed a UN-led aid system and backed the US-led Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), slammed by the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) as a “flawed distribution system.” The UN agency on Friday said the Israeli- and U.S.-backed aid distribution mechanism GHF “is not designed to address the humanitarian crisis,” emphasizing that it “is serving military and political objectives.”
“It’s cruel as it takes more lives than it saves lives,” the statement said.
On Tuesday, the UN human rights office said Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinian aid seekers in Gaza since May, mostly near sites run by the GHF.
The UNRWA noted that under the scheme, Israel controls “all aspects of humanitarian access, whether outside or within Gaza”, stressing that Gaza faces “a constructed and deliberate mass starvation.”
“Today, more children died, their bodies emaciated by hunger.”
UNRWA stated that during a previous ceasefire in 2025, which began in January and was later broken by Israel in March, it had managed to “reverse the deepening hunger.” “Today, UNRWA alone has the equivalent of 6,000 trucks of food and medical assistance stuck in Egypt and Jordan,” the agency said.
The Health Ministry in Gaza reported that over 120 people, mostly children, died from starvation-related causes.
The Israeli regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 59,733 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
