GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Hamas Movement has condemned the repeated targeting of civilians at food aid distribution centers in the Gaza Strip, calling it a war crime and part of a broader campaign of genocide that has persisted for nearly 20 months.
In a statement released Wednesday, Hamas described the deliberate killing of starving civilians near what it called “US-Israeli death traps” as a systematic crime committed under the cover of humanitarian aid. The Movement pointed to the killing of nearly 150 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, many of them targeted while attempting to access aid in Khan Yunis and other areas.
“These massacres are not accidental. The Israeli occupation, with direct US support, is orchestrating a systematic campaign of violence and forced displacement, deliberately targeting wounded individuals, demolishing homes, and shrinking so-called ‘safe zones,’” the statement read.
Hamas called on Arab and Islamic nations, along with the United Nations and its institutions, to break their silence and take urgent action to halt the genocide. It also urged the international community to recognize UN agencies as the only legitimate and secure channels for humanitarian aid—free from Israeli control and manipulation.
The Movement emphasized that the current mechanism of distributing aid under occupation oversight has become part of a broader policy of starvation and subjugation.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported Wednesday that 144 Palestinians were martyred and 560 wounded in the last 24 hours. The total death toll since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, has now reached 55,637, with 129,880 wounded. Since May 18, 2025 alone, 5,334 people have been martyred and 17,839 injured.
