This article from the BBC corroprates the claims in the parent article, and also talks about why there are so many civilian casualties at these food distribution centers:

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/28/nx-s1-5449587/israel-gaza-haa...

The most obvious problems are that the food distribution centers are placed deep inside military red zones (which is not common practice), and that Israeli soldiers have been ordered to fire at civilians in those zones, even if they obviously pose no threat (which is clearly a war crime).

The sections "Troops describe firing at crowds of aid seekers" and "Aid workers and medics call for end to GHF distribution plan" explain in more detail.

There have been many many aid trucks refused entry. The famine has been manufactured by Israel. "normal procedure" might have some weight if there weren't 100s of trucks refused entry.

First you impose a blockade against people.

Then they run out of food and their families are starving.

Then you distribute a limited amount of food that will run out long before most get any food.

If your family is starving to death, you can't leave the area and someone is dangling food in front of your face, are you saying you wouldn't risk it for your family and try to get SOME food regardless of the threat of death?

It's just not true that this is "normal procedure". It's just not. It didn't happen before either, and now it's happened how many times? Once or twice, I can believe. This many times? Not so much.

And this line of reasoning:

> If you don't shoot them they will take a sack by force, and then everybody will take a sack by force. Usually they coordinate themselves into bands or gangs to steal the food.

is just dehumanising and morally abject.

Are we supposed to just accept that because something is status quo, it’s permissible? The consequence for “stealing” food should never be death, ever, in any scenario. It’s also interesting that people taking and distributing food are characterised as “gangs”, this suggests that taking a vital resource and redistributing it is somehow criminal.

Edited to correct syntactical error.

You either have not read the article or are deliberately being obtuse.

The article has multiple IDF officers say that this isn't, in fact, normal warzone procedure for distributing food. That they witnessed crowds being dispersed with artillery fire, which isn't normal procedure anywhere.

Like, I don't know what world you live in, but I don't know any other conflict where dozens of civilians get fired upon during food aid distribution every day.

They don’t have basic crowd control tools such as water and tear gas, so instead they use state of the art lethal weapons?

But it's not a warzone, it's a slaughterhouse. The intention isn't to feed people, it's to remove Palestinians from Gaza, by attrition or violence.

Once you understand the motive, you understand why these deliberately concentrated, artificially limited aid delivery systems are used. They make remaining in Gaza the worst option.

This is genocide. It's unforgivable.

If we accept this and the claim that Hamas deliberately seeks to maximize civilian casualties, then consider the hypothetical:

What would stop them from deliberately drawing fire under this scenario?

Aside from meeting the Israeli demands, what other options remain for Hamas?