France’s top diplomat Jean-Noel Barrot, has said a US and Israel-backed aid distribution system in Gaza had generated a “bloodbath” and had to cease activity, Al Jazeera reports.

“I want to call for the cessation of the activities of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the militarised distribution of humanitarian aid that has generated a bloodbath in distribution lines in Gaza, which is a scandal, which is shameful, and has to stop,” Barrot told reporters after meeting his Cyprus counterpart in Nicosia.