UN Chief 'Urges' More Crossings, Israel Still Starving Gaza
The BBC's headline frames a UN official 'urging' Israel to open more crossings into Gaza, implying a polite diplomatic request for improved access. This conveniently erases the reality that Israel has systematically restricted humanitarian aid for months, with over 200 aid workers killed since October 7, 2023, according to the UN. These aren't suggestions; these are directives from a power that
has, by all accounts, engineered a famine, using food as a weapon of war (Source: Human Rights Watch). The UN's repeated calls for access have been routinely ignored, while the US continues to supply the munitions making such access impossible. This 'news' isn't about solving a problem; it's about normalizing a crisis. How many 'urgent pleas' does it take before we acknowledge that starving a
population isn't an accident, but policy? One might wonder how many more UN chiefs will 'urge' before anyone in power actually acts, beyond approving another weapons shipment. The 'anxiety' about the ceasefire unraveling seems rather selective, particularly when one party controls all the crossings, all the aid, and all the bombs.