Gaza’s Government Media office says the Israeli army and private US security contractors managing aid distribution sites are “systematically killing starving civilians”, Al Jazeera reports.

In a strongly worded statement, the office said that “genocide engineering is taking place under US sponsorship and with the participation of complicit states”, calling the aid sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) “death traps”.

According to an updated toll provided by the office, 805 people have been killed and 5,252 have been wounded while approaching the sites.

The statement added that 42 people have been reported missing since GHF began operating in Gaza on May 27.