Euro-Med calls for prosecution of Trump and immediate shutdown of GHF over massacres at aid points
Gazans are seen going to and from a GHF aid distributoon centre, May 2025
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor writes on 12 July 2025:
The international community and complicit governments bear responsibility for the ongoing horrific crimes against starving civilians at aid distribution points operated by the Israeli-American Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in central and southern Gaza Strip.
The organisation’s operations must be halted immediately, and an independent international investigation must be launched to ensure its officials are prosecuted before international and national courts for their involvement in systematic mass killings at distribution sites. These sites are run by a criminal entity forcibly imposed by the Israeli military as a replacement for the UN mechanism that had operated in the Strip for nearly a year and a half.
International and national judicial bodies must move to hold US President Donald Trump criminally accountable for his complicity in the genocide in the Gaza Strip. This includes his adoption and direct support of the Israeli aid distribution mechanism, imposed by force and transformed into arenas of mass slaughter against starving civilians, as well as his administration’s full-scale provision of military, financial, political, and diplomatic backing that enabled Israel to commit and expand the crime for over 21 months.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation falsely promoted as a civilian relief entity, actually serves as a field cover for policies of siege, starvation, and killing
The massacre that took place on the morning of Saturday, near an aid distribution point in the Al-Shakoush area north of Rafah city, and resulted in the killing of 30 Palestinians and the injury of over 180 others, came just days after the closure of three central distribution points. This led to the overcrowding of tens of thousands of starving civilians in one area in search of food, amid Israel’s systematic starvation policy used as a main tool in carrying out the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Documented field testimonies indicate the involvement of personnel from a private American security company working for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in opening fire and launching tear gas grenades at gathered civilians, alongside Israeli occupation soldiers. This places direct responsibility on the foundation and its security partners for committing fully-fledged international crimes against the population of the Gaza Strip, including active participation in the crime of genocide.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reviewed circulating video footage showing security personnel affiliated with Gaza Humanitarian Foundation directly throwing grenades at civilians gathered around aid distribution points. This serves as further evidence of the foundation’s involvement in systematic violence against starving residents and its active participation in the commission of grave international crimes.
A survivor of the massacre told the Euro-Med Monitor team:
“There is a large pit roughly 1,000 metres before the entrance to the aid point, which civilians use to hide before the gate opens. Today, we were surprised to see three sand mounds opposite the pit, but as usual, people entered the pit. Once it was full of civilians, we were shocked to see three tanks mount the mounds, each armed with machine guns and accompanied by around 30 heavily armed infantry soldiers and snipers. They began by firing several stun grenades over the people in the pit. When people tried to flee, anyone who attempted to get out was shot at directly. Crowds poured out of the pit, and the tanks opened heavy fire directly at them. Some bullets passed through multiple people at once due to the density of the crowd and proximity of the tanks. All of this happened between 8:30 and 9:30 this morning.”
Israeli forces and American security personnel have killed no fewer than 829 Palestinians and wounded around 5,500 others in less than two months near aid distribution points,sites deliberately designed to serve as tools of killing, starvation architecture, and the degradation of human dignity.