A recent exposé published by Haaretz has sparked outrage after Israeli soldiers confessed to deliberately opening fire on starving Palestinians gathered at food distribution points in Gaza. The chilling testimonies describe direct orders to target unarmed civilians using heavy machine guns and artillery, turning so-called aid centres into lethal ambush zones.

For Gaza’s population, already enduring months of siege and mass hunger, the revelations confirm what many have long feared: the aid deliveries promoted by Israel and the United States are not humanitarian corridors but death traps. As the siege enters its ninth month, over 2.4 million Palestinians remain cut off from consistent food, water, and medical access, while the army’s actions suggest a deliberate policy of extermination masked as relief.

Legal experts and humanitarian organisations warn that the confessions amount to an official admission of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Beyond the killings themselves, the report exposes the army’s collaboration with private contractors in so-called aid operations, raising further alarm over the commodification of suffering for political and financial ends.

International silence has enabled these atrocities. While Israeli forces treat aid lines as combat zones, the world’s most powerful nations continue to fund, arm, and politically shield the operation. The systematic targeting of civilians seeking food, many of them children, stands in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions and represents one of the clearest modern examples of the weaponisation of starvation.

The situation in Gaza is not a humanitarian crisis alone, it is a man-made catastrophe, rooted in policy, executed with military precision, and justified with chilling indifference. Unless international institutions act decisively, the mass killing of the hungry may become the new face of modern warfare.