A new research of doctors without borders (MSF) published Thursday concludes that the Food Distribution centers of the American (GHF, in English) are places of “orchestrated murders and dehumanization” and should be closed.
Through medical data and testimonies of patients and professionals collected in two MSF clinics in the Gaza Strip, the organization points out “by the Israeli forces and US private contractors against Palestinians hungry” in the centers of this group, authorized by Israel to distribute food in the strip.
Therefore, MSF asks for the end of this aid distribution system, that management to the UN is returned and calls governments around the world, especially that of the United States, to stop financing and support the GHF.
“A cruelty laboratory”
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, hundreds of people have died from gunfire of the Israeli army or tumults when they came to receive help from the GHF centers, which have been harshly criticized by international organizations and the UN, and are located in areas under Israeli military control.
“In the almost 54 years of MSF operations, we have rarely seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians (…). The GHF distribution sites that disguise themselves as ‘help’ have become a laboratory of cruelty,” says the general director of MSF, Raquel Ayora, in a statement, where he asks to end immediately with this system.
In the report This is not help, it is an orchestrated murderMSF documents some of the cases that have occurred since Israel allowed the entry of – after months of total blockade – through this militarized scheme of distribution of help.
“Not having alternatives to find food, families families often send adolescents to this lethal environment, since they are usually the only men in the house with the physical ability to make the trip,” describes the organization, which has served multiple minors injured in their clinics.
Thus, Ayora describes “children fired in their chest while looking for food, people crushed or suffocated in stamps, entire crowds riddled with bullets at the distribution points” such as the scenes that have compiled through the testimonies.
“There are children fired in their chest while looking for food, crushed or suffocated people in stamped, entire crowds shot at the distribution points,”
Protest against the violent distribution of FGH help, on August 5, 2025, in Washington (USA).
Intentated attacks
11 % of those served by gunshot wounds in the MSF clinics in (southern strip) received shots in the head or neck and 19 % in the chest, abdomen and back, and those served in Jan Yunis (southwest) received the majority shots in the lower extremities.
For MSF, “the different patterns and anatomical precision of these lesions strongly suggest intentioned attacks inside and around the distribution sites, instead of accidental or indiscriminate fire.”
“The sites are nothing more than a deadly scheme, which institutionalizes Gaza’s hunger policy of the Israeli authorities that began on March 2, with the total siege they imposed in the strip as part of their genocidal campaign in progress,” the organization points out.
