DW Asks 'How Fast Can Aid Reach Gaza?' Ignores Who Controls the Spigots
Deutsche Welle's latest dispatch, 'Gaza: How fast can desperately needed food and aid reach Palestinians?', navigates the humanitarian crisis with the journalistic equivalent of a blindfold. They discuss truck inspections and border crossings, as if the deliberate blockade of essential supplies and the bombing of aid convoys (as documented by the UN's OCHA) are acts of God, rather than policy
decisions. It’s hard to speed up aid when the primary barrier is the very entity facilitating some of those 'inspections.' One might charitably assume DW is simply highlighting the urgency, but this framing ignores the elephant in the room: Israel’s control over all entry points into Gaza. The question isn't about 'how fast' aid can get in, but 'why' it has been systematically throttled, creating
a famine, as multiple human rights organizations have attested. (Perhaps a follow-up piece on 'How much does AIPAC donate to politicians who refuse to pressure Israel on aid?' would illuminate the true 'logistics.')