Not Just Israel: The Arabs and Europe are Complicit in Starving Gaza
Soumaya Ghannoushi, a writer and expert in Middle East politics, says that Gaza is being starved by design. This is not a humanitarian crisis but a deliberate extermination, carried out through siege, blockade and bombardment. She describes it as the world’s first televised extermination, a concentration camp under constant aerial assault.
She says Israel bombs bakeries, flattens farms, shells aid convoys and blocks food. Hunger is being used as a weapon to kill not only bodies but the will to live and resist. Thousands of children are malnourished, families are starving, and even journalists are hungry.
This is not war, Ghannoushi adds, but annihilation, choreographed and prolonged. Israel carries it out, the US funds it, and Europe enables it with silence and trade. Arab regimes, particularly Egypt and Jordan, act as jailers and enforcers, blocking aid and crushing solidarity.
Diplomacy has failed, she says, turning food into a bargaining chip. Humanitarian access is not a favour but a legal obligation. The world did not simply fail Gaza; it abandoned it.
Gaza is a mirror, Ghannoushi concludes, and in its reflection we see our unvarnished shame.
28 Nations Tried to Save Face – Now They’re Losing It Over Gaza
Weasel words and strongly worded letters in the face of mass starvation in Gaza won't cut it. 28 world leaders thought it would.
According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the World Food Programme, over one million Palestinian children are now acutely malnourished, many on the brink of death. Families are reduced to grinding animal feed into flour, boiling weeds for soup, eating leaves from trees and drinking contaminated water as Israel renders water desalination plants inoperable.
Aid distribution points—lifelines for hundreds of thousands—are repeatedly struck by Israeli airstrikes, leaving bloodied sacks of flour scattered around. This is not a humanitarian accident; it is a deliberate military strategy. It is, in the words of South Africa’s genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), a policy designed to inflict “conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of a group in whole or in part.”
And yet the best the so-called champions of human rights in the West could muster, by way of a response to this, was a strongly worded letter for which the mainstream media have offered gushing praise. Yesterday, twenty-eight nations—including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and several other European states—issued a joint statement condemning what it euphemistically called “inhumane killings” at food distribution points and demanding Israel stop its drip-feeding of aid and just let aid in properly. Well I’m sure Israel were shaking in their boots over it.
For all the diplomatic choreography, this letter was hollow from the moment it was signed. Within hours, the United Kingdom under Keir Starmer launched yet another RAF Akrotiri spy flight over Gaza, providing intelligence allegedly to find hostages that most Israeli politicians seemingly no longer care about, no longer prioritise and rarely even mention any more, intelligence that is almost certainly used by Israel to refine its targeting.
CNN can't ignore / white wash the situation any longer either
After months of mostly ignoring the genocide or just repeating Israeli talking points, live page is back and now this as well
Cindy McCain tells CNN Israeli troops fired on crowds approaching Gaza aid convoy
Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme, speaks to CNN’s Becky Anderson following another deadly incident in Gaza, where dozens of Palestinians were reportedly killed as WFP attempted to distribute food aid. McCain describes the moment Israeli fire struck during the convoy’s passage and calls for immediate, sustained humanitarian access, and a ceasefire.
