The new distribution system amounts to "surveillance-based rationing that legitimizes a policy of deprivation by design"

Jonathan Whittall, director of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, stresses that "Humanitarian agencies have the capacity to help feed Gaza and provide other life-saving and life-sustaining services and supplies" adding "We are ready to work. We are ready to deliver directly to families as we always have. We are being denied from doing so, because it appears that the intention from Israel is not to facilitate an efficient aid response at scale."