Tel Aviv protesters against genocide through starvation not representative of Israeli population
Opinion polls show that up to 64 percent of Jewish Israelis don’t believe there are innocents in Gaza.
These protesters are taking quite a valiant position.
In past instances, where the faces of Palestinians killed in Gaza were shown by protesters calling for an end to the war there were complaints about them, in fact, at some point, they were forbidden from marching or from showing those pictures to those marching against the war.
The majority of Israelis want the war to end, but they want it for domestic reasons, not because there is an outpouring of sympathy.
The dehumanisation of Palestinians is quite mainstream, and that is what the Israeli government really counts on.
It’s easy to dismiss reports about starvation, about people dying of hunger because of Israeli policies, because at the end of the day, these images don’t really make it to Israeli TV screens.
Reports on GHF abuses, starvation in Gaza not ‘swaying’ Israeli public opinion
While the Israelis continue to say there is humanitarian aid, that there’s not really a problem, even the foreign ministry going so far as to release a statement saying that this hunger crisis isn’t really what it seems because there are trucks that are entering, they’re absolving themselves of any sort of responsibility for the blockade on humanitarian assistance affecting two million Palestinians in the territory.
(This continues) even though now Israeli media is carrying interviews with former contractors from the GHF saying that there are these abuses going on, there isn’t enough humanitarian aid being distributed.
This is an organisation that’s backed by both the US and Israel, and it’s still unclear where that initial $100m funding came from.
So, while these reports are being carried in Israel, it’s not really swaying public opinion about the starvation of the Palestinian people.
Israel says it will only grant one month visas to UN aid staff
Accusing the UN of “cling[ing] to its political agenda” and “bias”, Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon has told the UN Security Council that the country would only grant one-month visas to the international staff of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“Hundreds of OCHA employees are now undergoing security vetting,” he said on Wednesday, claiming without evidence that some OCHA staffers were even involved in the October 7 attacks.
“Israel will no longer grant automatic visas to OCHA’s staff. Visas will be limited to one-month terms.”
He added that Jonathan Whittall, OCHA’s head of office, will not have his visa renewed and must leave the country by July 29.
