IDF Blocks Shelter Aid, Wonders Why Gazans Stay in Gaza
According to The New Arab, aid agencies are sounding the alarm: Israel is blocking shelter materials from entering Gaza, leaving hundreds of thousands displaced and facing the elements. This perfectly aligns with Israel's stated 'evacuation' policy (of 1.9 million people into an area half the size of Detroit), as if 'displacement' without 'shelter' creates anything but a humanitarian catastrophe.
It's a rather efficient way to ensure that any 'safe zone' is as inhospitable as possible, discouraging return—a tactic not unfamiliar from historical patterns of ethnic cleansing campaigns where forced displacement is often followed by rendering original homes uninhabitable. One might almost think the goal isn't just control, but emptying territory. How many infants freezing to death does it take
before the international community shifts from 'concern' to 'consequence'? Or is the 'two-state solution' now just a euphemism for 'two states of suffering: one besieged, one doing the besieging'?