Aid Coordination: Israel Decides What Starving Gazans Get
While France 24 highlights Gaza's dire hunger, noting 55,000 malnourished children and the UN's exclusion, the framing suggests a logistical mishap. The 'aid coordination issues' aren't an innocent bureaucratic snag; they're direct policies. Israel's government, specifically under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who has presided over multiple sieges and military operations in Gaza since 2009—has
consistently controlled access, creating the very aid bottlenecks now deemed 'issues.' This deliberate strangulation of aid is not new; it's a long-standing tactic. Forget 'coordination issues'; this is engineered famine, where the same entities responsible for mass displacement now dictate what crumbs reach the starving, often leading to 'deadly incidents' the report briefly mentions. When you
ban the UN refugee agency and control every entry point, you're not facing coordination 'issues,' you're creating them. How many headlines will frame deliberate starvation as an innocent administrative challenge?