The third US- and Israel-backed aid centre will be opening up today in central Gaza, south of the Netzarim Corridor, Israel’s Army Radio reported, according to Al Jazeera.

The new distribution centre, like the two that have already opened, will be able to provide food and humanitarian aid to 300,000 Palestinians every week, the army’s radio claimed.

The location of the new centre is intended to push people from Gaza City and the northern part of the Strip to evacuate south, it added.

“The mission is to break the barrier of fear. We are already recognising the beginning of Hamas’s deterioration and loss of control over the population,” security officials were cited as saying by the radio.

The aid centres, run by an organisation called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, have faced international criticism with a UN official reporting Israeli gunfire at one of them.