The director of an umbrella group of Palestinian NGOs has said that the reports of starving people arriving at hospitals in Gaza for treatment is further evidence of the abject failure of the controversial GHF to fulfil humanitarian needs.

Speaking to Al Jazeera from Gaza City, Director of the Palestinian NGOs Network Amjad Shawa said that Gaza was facing dire shortages of aid. “Today there is nothing,” he said. “Everything is run out.”

He said it was clear that the GHF, tasked with distributing aid in the territory, was serving Israel’s “political-military agenda” rather than a humanitarian one.

The GHF’s model meant it was forcing desperate Palestinians to its distribution hub in the south, making a perilous journey in hope of being one of the few to receive a food parcel. There have been frequent killings of aid seekers around the GHF distribution point.

Shawa said that, rather than feeding Gaza’s population, the GHF had been a “mechanism for killing”. “It’s become very risky for people to go [there],” he said.