DOZENS of international charities and non-governmental organisations, including Oxfam, Save the Children and Amnesty International, called today for the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to disband.

The US and Israel-backed agency runs sites under Israeli military guard. Hundreds of Palestinians have been shot dead while trying to reach them.

At least 12 Palestinians were killed while seeking aid in southern and central Gaza on Monday night and early today, with the day’s death toll across Gaza from Israeli action at 95 when the Morning Star went to press.

The deaths followed Israeli forces killing at least 74 people in Gaza earlier on Monday.

Among them were 30 Palestinians slaughtered in an air strike on a seaside cafe and 23 gunned down as they tried to obtain food aid, witnesses and health officials said.

A statement from more than 165 major aid organisations said: “Palestinians in Gaza face an impossible choice: starve or risk being shot while trying desperately to reach food to feed their families.”

The call by the charities and NGOs was the latest sign of trouble for the GHF, a secretive initiative headed by evangelical Christian leader Johnnie Moore, who is a close ally of Mr Trump.

GHF started distributing aid on May 26, following a nearly three-month Israeli blockade that has pushed Gaza’s population of more than two million people to the brink of famine.

In a statement today, the GHF claimed to have delivered more than 52 million meals over five weeks.

“Instead of bickering and throwing insults from the sidelines, we would welcome other humanitarian groups to join us and feed the people in Gaza,” the statement said.

“We are ready to collaborate and help them get their aid to people in need.”

Israel’s blockade prevents almost all other aid from entering Gaza.

Last month, the GHF asserted that there has been no violence in or around its distribution centres — despite clear evidence to the contrary — and that its personnel had not opened fire.

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed around the chaotic aid distribution sites over the past month. Israeli soldiers told the country’s Haaretz newspaper last week they had been ordered to fire on unarmed crowds, while today the newspaper said senior officers admitted Palestinians were being killed by “inaccurate and uncalculated artillery fire.”

Israel, without evidence, accuses Hamas of siphoning off aid.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.