Civil society groups in Gaza have issued an urgent appeal, portraying the current humanitarian catastrophe not as collateral damage, but as an intentional strategy imposed by the Israeli occupation. They charge that systematic restrictions on deliveries of food, medicine and other essentials are driving famine, particularly affecting children, the elderly, the wounded and single-parent households.

These organisations argue that Israel is disguising its actions behind a carefully crafted public-relations campaign, suggesting aid is flowing unhindered. In reality, they claim, famine is deepening, with large segments of the population now facing life‑threatening food shortages.

According to eyewitness accounts and reports from local NGOs, aid is diverted along tightly controlled routes, often administered by entities including the so-called American Gaza Relief Foundation, a body accused of inefficiency and collusion. Aid convoys are reportedly intercepted by criminal militias and rogue elements long before reaching those in need, while United Nations agencies and other international groups encounter constant obstacles to direct distribution.

Local residents describe attempts to organise grassroots food distribution being met with immediate reprisals, air raids and targeted airstrikes against volunteers and civilians seeking to aid one another. Markets, where looted aid is resold, swell with inflated prices far beyond what ordinary families can afford.

One testimony likened the situation to a gruesome spectacle: Israeli soldiers openly wagering on how many civilians they might kill within a short period, an accusation Hamas-aligned civil groups characterised as “a theatre of cruelty.”

The statistics are grim: more than 20,000 children hospitalised with acute malnutrition, and over 300,000 children under five, alongside some 150,000 expectant or nursing mothers, deemed in immediate need of therapeutic nutrition. Aid delivery halts are frequently enforced in so-called “red zones,” where Israeli snipers, armoured units and automated weapons target desperate civilians attempting to reach supplies.

Civic leaders in Gaza are calling for a 24‑hour safe corridor to allow continuous delivery of medicinal milks and essential nutritional support. They emphasise that at least 600 humanitarian trucks must be allowed in daily if the health and survival of Gaza’s two‑million-strong population are to be preserved.

This appeal is framed not only in moral terms but as a demand for accountability: civilian suffering is, they insist, not an accidental by‑product of war, but the deliberate consequence of policy.