Chaos, despair, and gunfire in the air as the US and Israel deliver their first aid to Gaza.

BarcelonaHundreds of desperate Palestinians have jumped over the fences and pounced on the boxes of humanitarian aid that a foundation run by the United States and Israel was just beginning to distribute today. the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF), which works with US private military companies. The chaos at the distribution point in the southern city of Rafah ended with live ammunition being fired in the air to disperse the crowd, witnesses on the ground told Al Jazeera.

The Gaza Humanitarian Fund said on Tuesday afternoon that it had distributed around 8,000 boxes of food, equivalent to about 462,000 meals, after a nearly three-month Israeli blockade that has left thousands of children and adults malnourished. Some of the Palestinians who had been able to receive aid showed off the contents of the packages, which included rice, flour, preserved beans, pasta, olive oil, biscuits, and sugar.

Some footage showed lines of people walking down a corridor towards a large open field where aid was piled up. Other videos shared on social media showed large sections of the camp's fence torn down by people desperately trying to make their way to the food, Reuters explains. "What happened today is conclusive proof of the failure of the government to manage the humanitarian crisis it deliberately created through a policy of starvation, siege, and bombing," the Hamas-run Gaza government's press office said in a statement.

"You have been starving the entire population for almost three months, and then you ask them to walk miles and miles to get a sack of lentils and a sack of flour. This is not how humanitarian aid is distributed, especially by the state that occupied you: a country that destroyed the people of Rafah. The people it forced to leave Rafah are now being told to go back and take whatever they can get," Ahmed Bayram of the Norwegian Refugee Council told Al Jazeera.

Humanitarian organizations and UN agencies have been criticizing for weeks the plan for the distribution of humanitarian aid devised by the United States and Israel that was launched this Tuesday, despite the fact that only two days ago, this Sunday, in The director resigned, claiming that he could not continue working because the criteria of "neutrality, impartiality and independence" were not met.Israeli officials said one advantage of the new aid system is that it includes a system for screening aid recipients to exclude anyone connected to Hamas.

"As much as I want to go because I'm hungry and my children are hungry, I'm very scared because they said the company belongs to Israel and mercenaries, and also because the resistance (Hamas) said," Abu Ahmed, a 55-year-old father of seven, said: "Details of exactly how the system will work have not been made public," said Christian Cardon, chief spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross.