The U.S.- and Israeli-backed private organization Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it was suspending aid distribution for one day to address security concerns. Israel’s military warned Palestinians that roads leading to the aid distribution centers will be considered “combat zones.” This comes after three days of attacks on Palestinians at aid sites that killed 102 people and left nearly 500 others wounded. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for a prompt and impartial investigation into each of the attacks, which he says could constitute a grave breach of international law and a war crime. This is a spokesperson for the U.N. human rights chief.

Jeremy Laurence: “The willful impediment of access to food and other life-sustaining relief supplies for civilians may constitute a war crime. The threat of starvation, together with 20 months of killing of civilians and destruction on a massive scale, repeated forced displacements, intolerable, dehumanizing rhetoric and threats by Israel’s leadership to empty the Strip of its population, also constitute elements of the most serious crimes under international law.”