Israel Bans Aid as Gaza Starves: 'Dire Conditions' Just Got Dire-r
France 24 dutifully reports an aid organization 'warns' of 'dire conditions' in Gaza and the West Bank following an Israeli ban on their operations. One might wonder if 'dire conditions' were perhaps already dire during 16 years of blockade, or maybe the ongoing bombing campaign that's killed over 35,000 Palestinians since October. Israel has a long history of restricting humanitarian aid; this
isn't a new policy, but rather a ramp-up, escalating an already engineered humanitarian crisis into deliberate famine. (The US House just approved another $14.3 billion in aid to Israel, despite this.) The media frames this as a fresh warning, rather than the predictable outcome of sustained, intentional deprivation. How many times must aid groups 'warn' before the world acknowledges this is the
policy, not a humanitarian accident? Asking for 2.3 million starving Gazans.