IDF says,

Gaza’s distribution centers will be closed for one day on Wednesday, as Israeli military warned roads leading to the sites will be considered “combat zones”.

The Humanitarian Gaza Foundation (GHF), a controversial US and Israel support network, which started working last week, said it was closing its sites for “working to update, organize and improve efficiency”.

In a separate update of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), people said that people would be “forbidden” to enter distribution centers or travel on roads leading to them.

At night on Tuesday, At least 27 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire Near a distribution center, according to the Hamas Civil Protection Agency.

It was the third deadly incident After so many days to appear on the route to the GHF website.

IDF said his troops fired shots after identifying suspects moving toward them, “diverting from the designated access routes.”

As a result of the incident on Tuesday, the director of the Nasseri Hospital in Khan Enisnis, Atef al-Khut, said the wounds arrived with firearms after the Israeli forces had opened fire on “crowds of civilians waiting for help in Western Rafa”.

Hamas Mahmoud Civil Protection Agency spokesman said the civilians were fired from tanks, quadcopter drones and helicopters near a place for help.

A foreign physician working in the area described the scene as a “total slaughter” and said they had been flooded with victims.

In a statement, the IDF said its troops “did not prevent civilians from arriving from Gazan at humanitarian aid distribution sites.”

GHF said it would start to distribute help again on Thursday.

UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres called on an “immediate” investigation of events.

Stéphane Dujarric, a Guterres spokesman, told the BBC that closing the help centers showed “lack of clarity who is GHF is” and “lack of accountability”.

“We see armed men around these distribution points. No one knows who they are, who they are responsible to,” he said.

Comes when the UN warns that more than two million people are at risk of starvation In Gaza, after a complete ban on the Israeli food supplies and other help lasted 11 weeks.

GHF aims to replace the UN-LED aid network in Gaza, after repeated claims from Israel, that the UN did not prevent supplies from being abducted by Hamas, which the UN denies.

According to the new distribution system, Gazans are obliged to collect deliveries from a small number of centers in areas under Israeli military control and staff from armed American contractors.

Critics say the model has left people to need long distances to the objects and transport boxes weighing 20 kg back to their homes or shelters.

Dujarric described GHF as “a demonstration of how not to perform humanitarian aid,” as it “exposes the lives of people at risk” by forcing them to make long trips to get food in a militarized area.

He called the strategy “unacceptable” and sounded the leader of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), Philip Lazarini, who said the aid distribution had “become a death trap”.

The UN and other humanitarian organizations have accused GHF of failing to maintain humanitarian principles.

Also on Tuesday, Reverend Dr. Johnny Moore, a Christian gospel pastor and a prominent supporter of US President Donald Trump, was named the new GHF leader.

He was appointed to replace his first chief Jake Wood, a A former American Marine, who stood up and criticized the GHF modelS

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were hostage.

Since then, at least 54 470 people have been killed in Gaza, including 4 201 since Israel resumed its offensive on March 18, according to the health ministry in the territory.