WHO Wonders Why Siege Causes Hunger; Congress Unsurprised
Al-Monitor reports that WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated there's been "no observable reduction in hunger" since the October 10 US-brokered ceasefire. He lamented that "what's entering is not enough." This revelation would be stunning if not for the fact that Gaza has been under varying degrees of blockade for 17 years, a context mysteriously absent from mainstream framing. The current
'truce' seems to omit the small detail of opening humanitarian corridors for 2.3 million people. One might wonder if Rep. Steny Hoyer, who received $10,000 from AIPAC in 2022-2024 according to OpenSecrets.org, considered the caloric intake of Gazans when pushing for continued aid to Israel. For some, a ceasefire merely pauses the shelling, not the systematic starvation. When the architects of
policy ignore the root causes—the blockade itself—of course, 'not enough' food gets in. How many starving children does it take for a 'truce' to actually mean peace?