Israel has dismantled the proven and internationally backed ‘civilian model’ of aid distribution, furthering its military and objectives in Gaza and furthering starvation, according to a newly published joint report by Forensic Architecture (FA) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF).

Palestinians, including children, who are struggling to access food due to Israel’s blockade and ongoing attacks on the Gaza Strip, wait in line to receive hot meals. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

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Israel has furthered starvation with 'military model' of aid distribution, according to new joint-report

Israel has dismantled the proven and internationally backed ‘civilian model’ of aid distribution, furthering its military and objectives in Gaza and furthering starvation, according to a newly published joint report by Forensic Architecture (FA) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF).

The report by the research agency and charity respectively– published today at the same time as the UN-backed body, IPC confirmed Famine in Gaza – examines two models for aid distribution in Gaza, revealing how since 18 March 2025, Israel has dismantled the proven and internationally backed ‘civilian model’ of aid distribution, replacing it with a ‘military model’ which furthers Israel’s military and political objectives in Gaza while starving the region’s civilian population.

FA verified at least 64 incidents occurring between 18 March and 1 August of civilians being attacked by the Israeli military while seeking aid, including 25 incidents at and around Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. ration stations.

It concludes that Israel has used aid to break down existing social and civil structures in Gaza, grounded in relations between family networks, political groups, and international aid organisations, to generate dependency and, as a result, to establish political control over the Palestinian population.

Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture said

Aid can be lethal when used in a manipulative way. We have unpacked the architecture of starvation imposed by Israel in Gaza.

It is composed of acts of construction and destruction: the destruction of Palestinian agriculture and food sovereignty, the destruction of Palestinian civil society, and the construction of death traps.’

Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation (WPF) added:

‘The dehumanisation of Palestinians, the stripping of basic dignity, and the tearing apart of the fabric of the community are not accidental byproducts of the mass starvation inflicted on the people of Gaza.

There is every reason to believe that these are what Israel intends through its militarised ration system.’ ....READ MORE

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UNRWA USA : "We grieve for the more than 200 Palestinian journalists, over 300 of our UNRWA colleagues, and the tens of thousands of innocent people killed [by Israel] in Gaza since October 2023."

UNRWA USA   @unrwausa

We grieve for the more than 200 Palestinian journalists, over 300 of our  @UNRWA colleagues, and the tens of thousands of innocent people killed in Gaza since October 2023.

Mothers, fathers, children, and neighbors whose lives were taken while serving others, seeking safety, delivering aid, and in telling the truth the world needs to hear.

With no international journalists allowed into Gaza, it is only Palestinian journalists who have been able to show the world what’s happening — and they are being killed for it. All while twisted narratives are used to justify the unthinkable.

A whole population is being starved and bombed, including our own UNRWA colleagues. Because the very UN agency built to help them is being sidelined. UNRWA needs to be able to do its job. People are dying not because aid doesn’t exist, but because it’s being blocked.

And the world needs to set the record straight. This is not only an attack on lives, but on our shared humanity, and on our right to know. You can kill the messenger, but you can’t kill the truth. The truth will win.

History will remember their courage—and those who tried to silence it. Ceasefire now. Let Gaza live.

#UNRWAworks 

@UN Agency for #PalestineRefugees

 

UNRWA  @UNRWA

In #Gaza, people with disabilities face immense challenges in their daily life and in accessing essential services. They lack everything - food, assistive devices, healthcare. #CeasefireNow

 

Our warehouses in Egypt and Jordan are full with food, medicine and hygiene supplies to fill 6,000 trucks. We join the NGOs to call for a #ceasefire in Gaza and for aid to be allowed in, managed by the UN system including UNRWA.” — @UNLazzarini 

100 organizations call for an end to Israel’s weaponization of aid  

Despite claims by Israeli authorities that there is no limit on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, most major international NGOs have been unable to deliver a single truck of lifesaving supplies since 2 March.

Instead of clearing the growing backlog of goods, Israeli authorities have rejected requests from dozens of NGOs to bring in lifesaving goods, citing that these organisations are “not authorized to deliver aid.” In July alone, over 60 requests were denied under this justification.

This obstruction has left millions of dollars’ worth of food, medicine, water, and shelter items stranded in warehouses across Jordan and Egypt, while Palestinians are being starved....READ MORE  https://www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-releases/gaza-israel-threatens-to-ban-major-aid-organizations-as-starvation-deepens/

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Airdropping aid is a PR trick and dangerous distraction- it is not a good way to get food to starving children in Gaza... What’s needed is safe access by road. Let aid in through the UN, including UNRWA: "Opening all the crossings and flooding Gaza with assistance is the only way to avert further deepening of starvation among the people of Gaza. What’s needed is at least 500/600 trucks of basics every day."

UNRWA

@UNRWA

 

UNRWA welcomes statements of humanitarian pauses and announcements that restrictions on bringing humanitarian aid to #Gaza might be eased.

We hope that UNRWA will finally be allowed to bring in thousands of trucks loaded with food, medicine and hygiene supplies. They are currently in Jordan and Egypt waiting for the green light.

Opening all the crossings and flooding Gaza with assistance is the only way to avert further deepening of starvation among the people of Gaza. What’s needed is at least 500/600 trucks of basics every day.

According to our latest data 1 in every 5 children is malnourished in Gaza City. More children have reportedly died of hunger; bringing the death toll of starving people to over 100.

Our teams are ready: UNRWA has over 10,000 staff in Gaza. When aid gets in, they will give it directly and with dignity and safety to the communities we serve. We have the reach, network, know-how and trust of those communities.

Meanwhile, we call once again, for a long-term ceasefire as part of an agreement that would bring respite to starving people, an uninterrupted flow of basic supplies as well as the release of all hostages.

Turn words into action:

->Save lives now

->Allow aid in

->Stop the bombardment across the Gaza Strip.

#CeasefireNow

“If the gates to #Gaza were open, the UN could bring in 500–600 trucks a day — loaded with food, medicine, hygiene supplies — to reach those who need them most,” says our @JulietteTouma to  @CGTNOfficial . 

 

What’s needed is safe access by road. Let aid in through the UN, including UNRWA.

UNRWA

@UNRWA

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“Why use airdrops when you can drive hundreds of trucks through the borders?,” UNRWA@JulietteTouma tells @nytimes.  “It’s much easier, more effective, faster, cheaper.” 

Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation in #Gaza.

At UNRWA, we have the equivalent of 6,000 trucks waiting for the green light. Lift the siege, open the gates and guarantee safe movements and dignified access to people in need.

Last night, the Israeli army began airdropping international aid over Gaza after nearly 5 months of a suffocating blockade. While they may appear as relief, these airdrops are deeply humiliating and reinforce the very starvation they claim to solve. Here's why ...

Euro-Med Monitor

@EuroMedHR

 Last night, the Israeli army began airdropping international aid over #Gaza after nearly 5 months of a suffocating blockade. While they may appear as relief, these airdrops are deeply humiliating and reinforce the very starvation they claim to solve. Here's why:

1. Instead of relief, these airdrops injured at least 11 people and added to the suffering of a population already starved and displaced by Israel’s siege.

2. This step does not reflect a genuine shift in the humanitarian response. Rather, it aims to mislead international public opinion and downplay the severity of the crime, diverting attention from Israel’s systematic starvation policy in the Gaza Strip, which has caused an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.

3. In just one week, 55 people in Gaza officially died from starvation. Over the last two months, around 1,200 elderly people have died from hunger and lack of medical care as the health system collapses.

4. When airdrops were first introduced several months ago, even while the accessible area was relatively larger, they led to the deaths of 18 Palestinians and injuries to dozens more. Aid often lands on tents, in restricted zones, or in the sea. People risk their lives chasing these drops because they have no other option. Their desperation is being exploited, not relieved.

5. Addressing the starvation in Gaza cannot be achieved through superficial or gaudy measures but requires an immediate end to the blockade and the opening of safe, stable land corridors to enable the regular and sufficient delivery of food, medicine, and fuel.

6.  The only real solution: safe, protected land corridors for aid delivery, under UN supervision. 400 aid centres once operated in Gaza before Israel dismantled them. They must be restored.

7. Anything less — including these air spectacles — is complicity in genocide. Airdrops aren’t about saving lives; they’re about masking a war crime and preserving control.

Gaza: Airdrops are humiliating and a tool of starvation – only land corridors can save lives  https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6804

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UNWRA WORKS!

UNRWA Situation Report #181 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem

Friday, July 25, 2025

Days 649- 655 since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-181-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-jerusalem

 

"Israel is “easing” restrictions on aid that they said they weren’t restricting… Remember the Gaza pier? The airdrops? The stories of opening more crossings? A new aid plan? This is just another PR stunt. Israel is starving Gaza and committing genocide, that’s still the story." Assal Rad

Assal Rad

@AssalRad

Israel is “easing” restrictions on aid that they said they weren’t restricting… Remember the Gaza pier? The airdrops? The stories of opening more crossings? A new aid plan? This is just another PR stunt. Israel is starving Gaza and committing genocide, that’s still the story. 

https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1949269080650977776

Crowds of starving men, women, and children in #Gaza wait for little food. Some people go for days without eating. UNRWA has not been able to bring in any food for over four months. Lift the siege...

Diana Buttu

@dianabuttu

 

To date more than 900 Palestinians have been gunned down by the Israeli army and their US proxies just trying to get something to eat. 

 

These “aid sites” are death traps - and were designed to be such.

 

Abubaker Abed

@AbubakerAbedW

 

People are falling in the streets like tree leaves in the autumn. 

 

Children are bones and skills, weeping for food and water.

 

Journalists report on starvation while tears filling their eyes. 

 

What more atrocities does this world have to see to act? This is the darkest time ever

 

 

Motasem A Dalloul

@AbujomaaGaza

 

More children die every day in Gaza due to dehydration and malnutrition after they had been starved by the Israeli occupation! (Passed away today)

 

 

Philippe Lazzarini

@UNLazzarini

Entirely man made. 

 

Only political will & leadership can reverse full-fledged starvation.

 

Are we truly committed to “never again” ?  

 

 #Gaza

 

UNRWA

@UNRWA

 

Crowds of starving men, women, and children in #Gaza wait for little food. 

 

Some people go for days without eating.

 

UNRWA has not been able to bring in any food for over four months. Lift the siege.

Israel cuts power, water to UN agency for Palestinian refugees... The United Nations has reiterated UNRWA’s commitment to neutrality and rejected Israel’s ban, emphasizing the agency’s vital role in delivering humanitarian aid.

A view of the UNRWA building in East Jerusalem on October 30, 2024. [Saeed Qaq – Anadolu Agency]

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen announced Tuesday that electricity and water had been cut off to the offices of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), in a move intended to halt the agency’s operations inside Israel, Anadolu reports.

Under the slogan “Turning off the lights at UNRWA!” Cohen wrote on X that “the law to disconnect electricity and water from UNRWA offices, which will lead to the cessation of the organization’s activities in Israel, has been published.”

Cohen claimed that the UN agency has served as “an operational arm of Hamas,” alleging that it acts as “a breeding ground for incitement and murder and has no right to exist.”

Israel officially implemented a ban on UNRWA activities at the end of January. The agency was forced to vacate its main office in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, and Israeli authorities later ordered the closure of six UNRWA-run schools in the city.

READ: ‘Engineered’ malnutrition: UN agency chief warns about deepening child hunger crisis in Gaza

On Oct. 28, 2024, the Israeli Knesset passed two final laws barring UNRWA from operating in Israel, revoking its privileges and immunities, and prohibiting any formal contact with the agency.

Israel has alleged that the agency employees participated in the Hamas attack in late 2023, an accusation the agency has firmly denied. The UN has reiterated UNRWA’s commitment to neutrality and rejected Israel’s ban, emphasizing the agency’s vital role in delivering humanitarian aid.

As the Israeli war in Gaza intensified, Palestinians have become increasingly dependent on UNRWA, the largest international humanitarian organization serving the population.

Rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, Israel has pursued a brutal offensive on Gaza since October 2023, killing nearly 58,500 Palestinians, most of them women and children. The relentless bombardment has destroyed the enclave and led to food shortages and disease.

Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.

READ: Israeli lawmaker shows off keys to locked UNRWA Headquarters in Jerusalem in Knesset session

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250715-israel-cuts-power-water-to-un-agency-for-palestinian-refugees/ 

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"If the UN is allowed to fail or is so diminished that its agencies cannot fully function, there is nothing to take its place. Nothing, that is, except the law of the jungle, as seen in Gaza and other conflict zones where UN agencies are excluded, aid workers murdered and legal norms flouted. The UN system has many failings, some self-inflicted. But a world without the UN would, for most people in most places, be more dangerous, hungrier, poorer, unhealthier and less sustainable." Simon Tisdall

A United Nations vehicle passing people fleeing Beit Lahia in Gaza, 17 November 2024. Photograph: Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP/Getty Images

 

The UN is our best defence against a third world war. As Trump wields the axe, who will fight to save it?

Simon Tisdall

If the US cuts off the cash it will have world-changing effects, but it’s not the only country falling short in its obligations to the United Nations

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The United Nations and its agencies have long struggled with funding shortfalls. Now an entrenched problem is becoming an acute crisis in the shadow of Donald Trump’s executioner’s axe. The US is the biggest contributor, at 22%, to the UN’s core budget. In February, the White House announced a six-month review of US membership of all international organisations, conventions and treaties, including the UN, with a view to reducing or ending funding – and possible withdrawal. The deadline for decapitation falls next month.

Trump’s abolition of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and scrapping of most aid programmes, has already badly damaged UN-led and UN-backed humanitarian operations, which rely on discretionary funding. Yet Trump’s axe symbolises a more fundamental threat – to multilateralism and the much-battered international rules-based order. The basic concept of collective responsibility for maintaining global peace and security, and collaboration in tackling shared problems – embodied by the UN since its creation 80 years ago last week – is on the chopping block.

The stakes are high – and Washington is not the only villain. Like the US, about 40 countries are behind in paying obligatory yearly dues. Discretionary donations are declining. The UN charter, a statement of founding principles, has been critically undermined by failure to halt Russia’s illegal war of aggression in Ukraine (and by last month’s US-Israeli attack on Iran). China and others, including the UK, ignore international law when it suits. The number and longevity of conflicts worldwide is rising; UN envoys are sidelined; UN peacekeeping missions are disparaged. The security council is often paralysed by vetoes; the general assembly is largely powerless. By many measures, the UN isn’t working.

A crunch looms. If the UN is allowed to fail or is so diminished that its agencies cannot fully function, there is nothing to take its place. Nothing, that is, except the law of the jungle, as seen in Gaza and other conflict zones where UN agencies are excluded, aid workers murdered and legal norms flouted. The UN system has many failings, some self-inflicted. But a world without the UN would, for most people in most places, be more dangerous, hungrier, poorer, unhealthier and less sustainable.... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/06/the-un-is-our-best-defence-against-a-third-world-war-as-trump-wields-the-axe-who-will-fight-to-save-it

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