Weaponised aid

In what is meant to be a military confrontation according to Israeli armed forces, the Israeli government has brutally leveraged their manipulative rhetoric to paint every Palestinian - whether young or old - as a military threat. This is what allows them to circumvent accountability when they herd Palestinian people into groups and shoot them like cattle for sacrifice. Earlier this year, Israel bombed hospitals, schools and encampments for displaced Palestinians: supposed protected sites under the Geneva Conventions and International Humanitarian Law. Recently, in the past six weeks, Israel has killed around 800 Palestinians near aid distribution sites, including US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's (GHF) sites.

The GHF operations started in late May, almost five months after Israel's blockade of aid delivery to the Gaza Strip that amplified prospects of famine. GHF is an American organisation that claims to provide a better alternative to previous aid distribution sites in Gaza which, according to Israel, were being hijacked by Hamas to divert aid. But it is merely another death trap by the Israeli military to exacerbate its genocide - which is also the reason termed by several international relief organisations for refusing to cooperate with GHF.

The sheer cruelty of first starving a population, then using the offer of food as pretext for further violence seems to be lost on a world that is simply not doing enough to put an end to it. While Israel simply backtracks on its genocidal actions at aid distribution sites by calling them "lessons learned" after being rebuked by the UN, the Palestinian population chooses whether to die by starvation or die trying to obtain food and medicine.

With every passing month, humanitarian appeals grow more desperate. Palestinians now ask only to feed themselves, not even for peace. Those in power must act before the world grows numb to these horrors.