At least 20 people were killed in a crowd crush at an aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the controversial Israeli- and US-backed organization said Wednesday, the first time it has acknowledged deaths at one of its sites.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said that Hamas affiliates are behind a deadly crowd crush at an aid distribution site in Khan Younis on July 16. Twenty Palestinians died in the incident, including one person who was stabbed to death.

Reacting to the new GHF flag system, Ibrahiem Mohammed Abdul Raouf Al Qatrawi, a 22-year-old Palestinian, called for the total cancellation of the GHF aid system, telling ABC News on Monday that "respect and dignity" should be restored.

American private military contractors used dangerous crowd control tactics on a crowd of Palestinian aid seekers in Gaza on Wednesday, witnesses say, causing a deadly stampede and adding to the nearly 1,000 Palestinians who have been killed in relation to the U.S.- and Israeli-backed “humanitarian aid” scheme thus far.

After 'successful pilot,' US- and Israel-backed group says it will ramp up food distribution tenfold through local groups; current system exposes aid seekers to dangers, difficulties The post Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it will start delivering aid via community leaders appeared first on The Times of Israel.

A proposal seen by Reuters and bearing the name of a controversial U.S.-backed aid group described a plan to build large-scale camps called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” inside - and possibly outside - Gaza to house the Palestinian population,

Sources tell MEE Hamas rejects Israeli proposal, fearing Rafah 'concentration camp' plan to facilitate mass displacement