The Zionist Regime’s plan to weaponize humanitarian aid in Gaza

The reported plan by the Zionist regime for distributing humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip is nothing more than a new maneuver aimed at prolonging the comprehensive and illegal blockade imposed on this territory.

Experts say this move reintroduces starvation, but this time under a humanitarian guise, legitimizing its continuous use as a weapon within the framework of an ongoing genocide that has lasted over 19 months.

Details of the Zionist Regime’s plan

The plan focuses on complete control over the aid system, from defining the type and quantity of aid to regulating its entry, storage, distribution, and determining who is eligible to receive it. This reflects the Zionist regime’s clear intent to manage starvation rather than end it, while further consolidating control over the most basic necessities of life for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

According to Hebrew-language media reports, the Zionist regime, in coordination with the United States, is working to establish a new mechanism for delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza through an international fund supported by donor countries and institutions.

Under this mechanism, the Zionist regime’s military will establish aid distribution complexes in specific areas of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian families will be allowed to access these complexes once a week to receive a single aid package per family, intended to last seven days. A private American company will manage logistics and security within and around the complexes, while the occupying army will secure the surrounding areas.

The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) reported that this plan is, in essence, a system that strengthens total control over the civilian population in this besieged area, turning food, medicine, and water into tools of collective extortion managed within a military-security framework rather than a humanitarian-legal one.

This proposed mechanism extends the Zionist regime’s suffocating policy in Gaza and serves as a diversion from the urgent need for immediate and unconditional humanitarian access. In practice, it grants the Zionist regime more time to keep Gaza’s people starving while normalizing the systematic destruction caused by the ongoing genocide it continues to perpetrate.

Reported details of this new mechanism indicate it relies on establishing aid distribution facilities in specific locations (far from populated areas and near Zionist military positions). Given that these aids are used as a tool for the forced displacement of the population under a humanitarian cover, they pose a significant danger to civilians.

Starving families, subjected to the Zionist regime’s systematic starvation policy since October 2023, will likely be forced to relocate near these facilities to survive. This enables the occupying regime to depopulate large residential areas and impose a new demographic reality that prevents people from returning.

Implementing a strategy of forced displacement in Gaza

The Zionist regime’s track record in similar contexts provides strong reasons to believe that the proposed mechanism will not be neutral or humanitarian but rather a new tool in its ongoing strategy of forced displacement.

Euro-Med Monitor documented the Zionist regime’s military use of sophisticated and coordinated methods during the attack and destruction of northern Gaza in October 2024 to push residents toward southern Gaza for access to food and aid.

This campaign combined heavy bombardment and a total siege with the distribution of leaflets and phone calls urging residents to move to the so-called humanitarian zone in Al-Mawasi. Those who remained in areas designated as war zones faced the threat of aid denial.

A Plan that violates international law

This proposed mechanism also constitutes a dual violation of international law. First, it breaches the Zionist regime’s obligations as an occupying power under the Fourth Geneva Convention, which mandates providing for the basic needs of the occupied population and facilitating humanitarian aid without delay, discrimination, or political conditions. Second, it contradicts the principles of international humanitarian law and human rights, which prohibit the use of aid as a tool for political pressure or control.

These laws stipulate that aid must be provided solely based on need, with neutrality, non-discrimination, and in a timely and sufficient manner—principles absent in the Zionist regime’s proposed mechanism.

Furthermore, the mechanism paves the way for the Zionist regime’s permanent control over parts of the Gaza Strip, enabling a form of covert annexation. By placing so-called humanitarian complexes in open areas near military sites, these locations become Zionist security belts inaccessible to Palestinian civilians, leading to their geographic and demographic separation from the rest of Gaza.

These areas may later be classified as closed military zones or logistical corridors tied to military and civilian infrastructure. This legitimizes the Zionist regime’s presence in Gaza, rendering it practically irreversible. Thus, temporary control linked to aid distribution and so-called humanitarian needs could become a gateway to reshaping the geographic reality of this besieged region.

Human rights organizations’ views on the plan

Human rights organizations state that the Zionist regime’s plan, instead of ensuring a steady and sufficient flow of aid (as required by international law), uses aid as a form of extortion, with access to food subject to the regime’s restrictions. These turns meeting basic survival needs into a privilege dependent on the whims of the Zionist military, eliminating any capacity for the population or Palestinian institutions to adapt to food storage and preservation.

Field evidence, particularly since the Zionist regime resumed its genocide of Gaza’s people on March 18, 2025, shows that the proposed humanitarian aid mechanism is not designed to alleviate the crisis but to tighten control over the population and reengineer the humanitarian landscape under so-called military-security oversight.

The proposed mechanism also seeks to sideline UNRWA and Palestinian and international relief organizations under the pretext of political neutrality. This deliberate exclusion targets the most experienced and proven field actors who have consistently provided effective and equitable aid. If implemented, this exclusion will deprive Gaza’s people of trusted relief channels capable of delivering consistent and transparent aid, replacing them with a new system controlled by political and security interests while dismantling longstanding structures that have served as lifelines.