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Israel seeking to ‘deliberately starve, relentlessly bomb’ Gaza: Advocate
Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), says the Israeli military’s management of aid distribution in Gaza is “very humiliating and degrading”.
He accused Israel of seeking to “undermine the human dignity of the Palestinian people, especially those who have suffered throughout 20 months of an Israeli deliberate and systematic starvation policy – one of the most heinous crimes in our time”.
“Those committing genocide, including starving civilians, amongst them women, children, the sick and the wounded, will never care about feeding them or offering them food aid, especially when their goal of the genocidal war is to exterminate the Palestinian people and eradicate their presence,” Sourani said in a statement.
“How would a hand that kills and starves suddenly turn into a helping hand that feeds its victims? No logic, morals or laws can justify this. What Israel is doing today is trying to dominate the population’s sustenance and deliberately starve them while relentlessly bombing them.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/middleeast/gaza-starving-wfp-warehouse-famine-intl-latam
Israeli aid scheme ‘a way to pick who gets to live, who gets to die’
Khaled Elgindy, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in the US, says it was striking to see the “difference in priorities” between the US and Israel on one hand, and the rest of the world on the other, earlier today at the UN Security Council.
Elgindy noted that during the council debate in New York City, “the UK and France and Denmark and others were very clear in their rejection of Israel’s very cynical humanitarian mechanism to replace the existing one in Gaza”.
“The US, on the other hand, offered unconditional support for what Israel was doing on the ground, whether it was the humanitarian aid mechanism or its military actions,” he told Al Jazeera.
Elgindy added that the purpose of Israel’s humanitarian aid scheme is not to appease Western criticism or alleviate humanitarian suffering, but rather to further its goals in Gaza, including clearing out the north and eventually forcing Palestinians out of the Strip.
“Even if [the Israeli scheme] were working at maximum capacity, it would only ever serve 60 percent of the population of Gaza. So what happens to the other 40 percent? We’re talking about almost a million people,” Elgindy said.
“It is a Hobbesian choice for Gazans. But it’s also a way for Israel to get to pick and choose who gets to live and who gets to die, or leave. So really there is no choice here at all.”
