Gaza Aid Blocked: When a 'Ceasefire' Means 'More Starvation, Slowly'
A week into a humanitarian pause, Al Jazeera highlights that aid deliveries to Gaza are still being obstructed by Israeli forces, with vital supplies like food and medicine piling up. This isn't a new development; the blockade of Gaza has been a systematic policy since 2007, tightening dramatically with every escalation. The United Nations has repeatedly called the situation a 'humanitarian
catastrophe,' a phrase the Biden administration apparently hears as background noise while approving more arms transfers. (OpenSecrets.org shows AIPAC spent $7.9M lobbying Congress in 2023 alone, ensuring a consistent appetite for military solutions.) One might wonder if these 'roadblocks' are simply a continuation of the same 'administrative hurdles' that have historically choked Gaza's access to
everything from cement to school books. How many more reports about starving children do we need before the 'ceasefire' facade crumbles? When the rhetoric is peace, but the reality is continued siege, it ceases to be a policy and starts looking suspiciously like deliberate collective punishment.