A new Amnesty report last week found that Israel continues to use starvation as a weapon against the people of Gaza as part of their genocidal campaign:
Evidence gathered by Amnesty International demonstrates how over a month since the introduction of its militarized aid distribution system, Israel has continued to use starvation of civilians as a weapon of war against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and to deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as part of its ongoing genocide.
The Israeli government is still deliberately starving the entire population of Gaza. The small trickle of aid that it lets in cannot begin to provide for their basic needs and it was never meant to. When people come to get the few crumbs that they are allowed to have, they run the risk of being injured or killed in repeated massacres. The Israeli government piles war crimes on top of war crimes with the blessing and support of our government.
The “aid” system has been a horror show since it began. Hundreds of starving Palestinians have been gunned down as they have approached these “aid” centers. According to Haaretz’s report last month, Israeli forces have been deliberately shooting civilians:
“It’s a killing field,” one soldier said. “Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They’re treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire.”
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Daniel Larison is a contributing editor for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia. He is former senior editor at The American Conservative. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.
