GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center)The Palestinian Center for Human Rights expressed its complete rejection of the new plan promoted by the United States of America, in coordination with Israel, to manage the process of distributing aid to the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, which will be carried out by private American companies operating under a false humanitarian guise, and with direct security protection from the occupation forces, in areas under its military control.
In a statement on Monday, the center considered the plan a new form of engineering the siege, starvation, and subjugation practiced by Israel against the Palestinians, in the context of the ongoing crime of genocide for more than 19 consecutive months, aimed at destroying the Strip and displacing its residents.
The center affirmed that the “new aid distribution mechanism” completely violates the standards of humanitarian and relief work stipulated by international humanitarian law and is a deliberate step to exclude international organizations and neutral humanitarian bodies, especially the United Nations and its agencies, particularly the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), from carrying out its role in Gaza Strip.
According to the statement, the mechanism does not provide an effective solution to the famine that is severely affecting the residents of the Strip, but rather grants Israel a false legitimacy to consolidate the criminal policy of starvation as a weapon against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and to continue using the relief and aid file to blackmail the residents and control their daily lives and the necessities of their survival.
According to the American-Israeli plan, a non-profit organization recently registered in Geneva will undertake the task of managing and distributing humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, and the organization is called the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.”
The mechanism identifies Rafah as the main center for aid distribution, which clearly intersects with what was stated in the plan recently approved by the Israeli government, which is to forcibly push residents from all over the Strip towards the south, occupy new areas in the Strip and control them for a long time, and crowd the residents into the Rafah area, which has become completely destroyed.
The center considered that this project paves the way for passing the displacement plan outside the Strip, which the Israeli government announced its adoption in February 2025, which explicitly violates international humanitarian law that prohibits any forced change in the demographic composition of the occupied territories.
More than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living through a humanitarian catastrophe that is seriously worsening after Israel completely closed the crossings and banned the entry of any form of aid and relief supplies to the besieged Strip for more than 70 days, and then the Israeli occupation army renewed the operations of genocide, killing, destruction, and forced displacement in the Strip since March 19, 2025.
The United Nations and humanitarian organizations working in the Gaza Strip have clearly expressed their rejection of engaging in the aid distribution process by private companies, because it violates the principles of neutrality, independence, and fair distribution of aid.
The human rights center stressed that the American-Israeli plan violates the basic principles of humanitarian work, which are defined by the four Geneva Conventions and their protocols, especially the principles of neutrality, transparency, and efficiency in accordance with Article 70 of Additional Protocol I, which are principles that require relief operations to be carried out in a humanitarian and neutral manner, and away from any military control or political conditions, or the involvement of private companies in the distribution process, because this exposes the lives of residents to threats and blackmail, which deprives UN organizations of performing their role and is a circumvention of the status of occupation and its legal responsibilities.
The potential plan also violates Article 55 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which obliges the “Occupying Power” to ensure the provision of the needs of the population under its control, of food supplies and medical supplies, as well as Article 59, which obliges the occupying state to allow humanitarian operations to relieve the population freely and without conditions if the population of the occupied area suffers from a shortage of supplies.
The plan also contradicts the temporary measures issued by the International Court of Justice in response to South Africa’s lawsuit against Israel, regarding the need to take all possible measures to ensure the prevention of the crime of genocide, including preventing forced displacement from areas of the Strip, and ensuring the unimpeded arrival of humanitarian aid, which this plan clearly violates.
The center stressed that what is happening in the Gaza Strip of deliberate starvation and deprivation of civilians of food, water, and health care is an act that is carried out with the intention of destroying the Palestinian population, which clearly matches the elements of the crime of genocide, which requires the international community to take concrete actions to stop this catastrophe, restore the meaning of humanitarian principles, and restore justice to its place.
The center called on the international community and the member states of the United Nations to immediately assume their humanitarian and legal responsibilities, and to intervene urgently and pressure Israel to stop the ongoing crime of genocide, open all crossings leading to the Gaza Strip, and resume the entry of humanitarian aid without restrictions and on an immediate and large scale, and under the supervision of the United Nations and its specialized agencies, away from any military or political interference from any other parties.
It affirmed that the international verbal condemnation of the plan is not sufficient, but rather real pressure mechanisms must be imposed on Israel to force it to end the illegal siege in the Gaza Strip, and to strengthen the role of international institutions, foremost of which is protecting UNRWA from any undermining of its work, and renewing support for it, as the only institution capable of providing a fair humanitarian response to the population in Gaza Strip in a manner consistent with its UN mandate and the obligations of the international community towards the Palestinian people.
The center called on the states parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to fulfill their obligations, as they must activate and implement the arrest warrants issued against senior Israeli leaders, and take all necessary measures to ensure their prosecution and accountability for all their potential crimes, including the crime of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed by Israel in Gaza Strip for more than a year and a half, in a way that ends the state of impunity, which no longer constitutes a threat to the rights of the Palestinians only, but a dangerous precedent that threatens the entire international system.
