27 June 2025
From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General as posted on his official X account (previously known as Twitter)
Gaza: the new aid distribution system has become a killing field.
Over 400 starving people reported killed since it started operating just a month ago.
They were shot at while trying to access food for themselves and their families.
Testimonies are coming out that soldiers opened fire indiscriminately.
In the chaos, children were separated from their families: disoriented and traumatized.
The system falls far from abiding to the principle of humanity.
It is not designed to address hunger and is often justified using the pretext of aid diversion that is yet to be substantiated let alone proven.
Instead of “orderly food distribution”, this system brings dehumanization, chaos and death.
This cannot become the new norm.
This abomination must end through a return to humanitarian deliveries from the UN including UNRWA.
A ceasefire is needed and the siege must be lifted to bring back a standard flow of basics including food, medicine, soap and fuel.
Document Sources: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
Subject: Armed conflict, Assistance, Ceasefire, Food, Gaza Strip, Human rights and international humanitarian law, Humanitarian relief, Refugees and displaced persons
Publication Date: 27/06/2025
URL source: https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-commissioner-general-gaza-new-aid-distribution-system-has-become