Netanyahu Threatens Starvation, Calls it 'Peace Process'

The Axios headline touts Hamas returning four bodies after Israel 'threatened to cut aid to Gaza,' framing it as a successful peace process negotiation. This tidy narrative omits that denying humanitarian aid, particularly food and medicine, to a besieged population constitutes collective punishment—a war crime under international law. Netanyahu's calculus to 'block the Rafah crossing' and 'halve

aid trucks' isn't a new negotiating tactic; it's a continuation of policies documented by the UN and human rights organizations for decades, systematically crippling Gaza's infrastructure. This isn't about 'non-compliance' with a deal; it's about Israel asserting continued dominance over Palestinian lives and deaths. While Axios marvels at the 'first crisis of the peace process,' the real crisis

is the ongoing weaponization of essential resources and the normalization of threatening mass starvation to achieve political ends. One wonders how many 'peace deals' will involve holding an entire population hostage to their basic needs before the media calls it what it is.

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