Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - In a harrowing incident yesterday in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, an aid distribution at a hub run by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) turned deadly, resulting in at least 20 Palestinians killed 19 trampled and one stabbed amid chaos and panic.
GHF has blamed “armed agitators affiliated with Hamas”, while Gaza’s Health Ministry cites suffocation and crowd-control errors exacerbated by locked gates and pepper spray.
This is a chilling escalation in a crisis already claiming hundreds of lives at aid sites in recent weeks with UN estimates pointing to nearly 800 killed since late May.
Public outrage has been immediate and vocal. Graphic images and eyewitness accounts, including reports of stun grenades and tear gas use, have flooded social media under hashtags like #StopTheAidStampedes and #GazaLivesMatter.
International voices are alarmed: UN Secretary-General António Guterres called such aid models “inherently unsafe”, and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas condemned the militarization of humanitarian aid calling it “weaponization of assistance.”
Aid workers are demanding urgent reforms to prevent further loss of innocent life.
The implications are chilling.
With ceasefire negotiations currently stalled and food insecurity intensifying, Gaza is hurtling toward a humanitarian abyss. The distribution system has become a battleground feeding the starving while risking their lives.
Policymakers now face immense pressure to overhaul aid delivery: from site design and crowd control to reopening UN-led supply channels. Failure could spiral into wider collapse and global condemnation of donor negligence.
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