Relief agencies have criticised Israeli plans to allow aid into Gaza, which they say do not meet humanitarian standards and could facilitate further displacement.
A US report on Friday suggested that Israel could soon start allowing aid to enter Gaza under an agreement with the US, easing starvation conditions in the strip which has been under blockade for almost nine weeks.
But according to reporting from the Financial Times, the plans would see Israel vet who is allowed to receive food, determine where it is distributed, and cut out some of the largest aid groups working on the ground.
"What we’re seeing is an attempt to . . . essentially instrumentalise the delivery of aid to pursue military objectives," the newspaper quotes the Norwegian Refugee Council's Gavin Kelleher as saying.
"The suggestion that a party to the conflict can vet the employees or civilians of another party to the conflict . . . is just not something that lines up at all with a principled humanitarian response."
Israel has imposed a nine-week blockade on Gaza that the UN and other agencies say amounts to the deliberate starvation of the territory's 2.2 million residents.
The Netanyahu government has until now doggedly refused to allow food to enter the strip, but has come under growing international pressure to relent, including from the US president.
The news comes amid reports that at least 28 Palestinians were killed in a new round of Israeli attacks in Gaza on Saturday.
Strikes were reported in Khan Younis and Gaza City.