LONDON (Dispatches) – Amnesty International has condemned the Zionist regime for deliberately using starvation as a weapon for war in Gaza, with the controversial Israel-U.S. backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) serving as a tool to deepen the humanitarian catastrophe and sustain the ongoing genocide.
In a report, the UK-based rights organization said the Zionist regime is systematically inflicting starvation and disease on Palestinians by manipulating humanitarian relief efforts.
The GHF, an organization imposed on Gaza by Washington and Tel Aviv, has not only been used to sidestep the United Nations but has also, according to Amnesty, played a central role in militarizing aid.
“Israel’s genocide has continued unabated in Gaza, including through the infliction of conditions of life that have created a deadly mix of hunger and disease pushing the population past breaking point,” said Amnesty’s secretary general, Agnes Callamard.
The report compiled from “heartbreaking testimonies” from medical staff, parents of malnourished children, and displaced Palestinians paint a harrowing picture of extreme “starvation and desperation”.
Their accounts provide further evidence of the catastrophic suffering caused by the Zionist regime’s restrictions on life-saving aid, its militarized aid scheme, forced displacement, relentless bombardment, and destruction of essential infrastructure.
“This devastating daily loss of life as desperate Palestinians try to collect aid is the consequence of their deliberate targeting by Israeli forces and the foreseeable consequence of irresponsible and lethal methods of distribution,” said Callamard. 
Zionist troops have admitted to deliberately shooting and killing unarmed Palestinians waiting for aid in the Gaza Strip, following direct orders from their superiors.
According to soldiers and officers who spoke to the Israeli daily Haaretz, commanders instructed them to open fire on people seeking food at aid distribution points despite knowing they posed no threat.
One soldier described the distribution centers as a “killing field”.
More than 600 people have been killed at or near these sites in the past month alone, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Witnesses and medics say Zionist troops routinely open fire on crowds trying to reach food.