A group of 35 UN human rights experts has demanded the immediate dismantling of the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial organisation created by Israel earlier this year under the guise of delivering aid. What was framed as a humanitarian effort, they warn, has become a tool of oppression, manipulation, and mass violence against starving Palestinians.

In a searing statement, the experts condemned the GHF’s operations, accusing it of luring desperate civilians with promises of food, only for them to be met with gunfire and shelling. Since late May, nearly 900 Palestinians, the vast majority civilians, have been killed near GHF-run sites. Eyewitnesses describe scenes of horror: children and elderly people collapsing in pools of blood after being ambushed at so-called aid points.

Rather than bringing relief, the GHF has served to humiliate Gaza’s most vulnerable, denying orphans, widows, and the wounded access to basic necessities. The UN team called the programme a grotesque parody of humanitarian work, accusing Israeli forces of using aid as a weapon and committing grave crimes under the cover of compassion.

The experts urged the international community to end its complicity. They called for an immediate arms embargo on Israel, a suspension of trade agreements that feed the occupation, and criminal accountability for those enabling this devastation. Gaza, they say, is dying in plain sight, and the world must not look away.