UN Demands Aid Access, Forgetting Who Blocked It Last Time
Al-Monitor reports the UN and Red Cross are urgently demanding all Gaza crossings open to allow 'desperately needed aid' into the 'Israeli-blockaded Palestinian territory.' They cite a 'fragile truce' (under a 'US President Donald Trump's plan,' a curious anachronism suggesting dated reporting) requiring swift action. Yet, this isn't a new demand; it's a broken record the world has heard since at
least 2007, when the total blockade was imposed. Despite an average of $3.8 billion annually in U.S. military aid to Israel, there's rarely a 'demand' for accountability for the blockade itself, only for temporary humanitarian pauses. One might wonder: how many times can international bodies 'demand' the obvious before their demands become less about action and more about performative
hand-wringing? The system seems designed for perpetual crisis, where the famine-hit territory can receive just enough aid to survive, but never enough to thrive, while the architects of the blockade continue to receive billions in unconditional support. It's almost as if the 'fragile truce' isn't meant to solve anything, but merely to manage the PR fallout until the next bout of 'desperately
needed aid' photo ops.