The Palestinian Government Media Office (GMO) has condemned a brutal Israeli massacre targeting starving civilians seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza, reporting that at least 52 Palestinians have been killed and over 340 injured in recent attacks on aid distribution centers.

On Monday, Israeli occupation forces opened fire near the US-Israeli aid distribution center in Rafah, southern Gaza, killing three civilians and injuring 35 others, according to the GMO. This assault is part of a deliberate and ongoing campaign of starvation and violence aimed at vulnerable Palestinians struggling to survive under the siege.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) denounced the “mass killings” near two aid distribution points in southern and central Gaza as a calculated and systematic policy of the Israeli occupation. PCHR emphasized that these attacks are not isolated incidents but part of a broader strategy to starve, humiliate, and kill Palestinian civilians as they desperately seek aid.

Thousands of Palestinians daily gather near aid distribution sites controlled by the Israeli occupation forces and operated by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, under the security of a US private company. Despite overwhelming demand, aid supplies remain limited and are distributed chaotically without organized mechanisms or beneficiary registration, worsening the suffering of desperate crowds.

The PCHR stated that this flawed system exposes Palestinians to repeated Israeli gunfire, turning aid distribution points into scenes of death and dehumanization rather than relief. The organization highlighted that the aid process falls far short of humanitarian standards, forcing starving civilians to risk their lives for insufficient food supplies under the threat of sniper fire and airstrikes.

“These deadly and degrading conditions reveal that Israel’s intent is not to provide humanitarian aid but to use aid as a weapon of slow extermination and collective humiliation,” the PCHR asserted.

The continuing siege, combined with repeated massacres at aid centers, underscores the grave humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where civilians endure unprecedented levels of deprivation and violence at the hands of the Israeli occupation. (ILKHA)