Mads Gilbert, an emergency medicine doctor who has spent extensive time working in Gaza, says the Gaza Health Foundation (GHF) distribution centres are “part of the Israeli occupation forces’ and the Israeli government plan to ethnically cleanse and to fulfil their goal of genocide in Gaza”.

He told Al Jazeera that the food parcels the GHF delivers “are grossly inadequate”.

“There is no dairy or eggs in the parcels — neither in physical form nor powdered form; there is no infant formula, which is desperately needed by the newborn and the children,” he added.

Gilbert also pointed out that the food “needs cooking and there are almost no cooking facilities available in Gaza”.

“The distribution organisation is aimed at using food as bait to attract starving people, to terrorise them and to kill them. The shooting of people in food lines is a war crime,” he concluded.