Gaza Health Ministry: Aid hubs are 'Israeli death traps'

Gaza's health ministry says the newly formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution hubs have become "Israeli death traps" and are a  new mechanism for the forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.

In a statement published on Telegram, the ministry said that everyone that arrived at hospitals following Sunday's attack on Palestinians at an aid distribution hub in Rafah sustained one gun shot wound to the head or chest.

It noted that this confirms the Israeli "insistence on brutally killing civilians".

Dr Munir al-Barsh, the ministry's director, condemned “the international silence regarding the massacres being committed against the starving residents of the Gaza Strip," adding that severe shortages of medical supplies in the territory are producing "dire conditions" at hospitals.  

He noted that 3000 trucks carrying badly needed medical supplies are currently stalled at the border.

He further accused Israel of "deliberately spreading infectious diseases and epidemics” by the blockade.