One of the top human rights organizations has concluded that Israel is using starvation as a means to commit genocide, in partnership with a US-based agency.
“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,” the scathing summary of the report reads. “To deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as part of its ongoing genocide.”
“In the month following Israel’s imposition of a militarized ‘aid’ scheme run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured either near militarized distribution sites or en route to humanitarian aid convoys,” it adds.
The GHF is a US-based agency run by Christian Zionist Rev. Johnny Moore. Since the end of May, the GHF has distributed an insufficient amount of aid to the millions of starving Palestinians in Gaza.
The method of aid distribution is dehumanizing and leads to fights as desperate people race to obtain food. The US government backs the Israeli-GHF scheme and provides some funding to the organization.
Additionally, Israeli soldiers have killed hundreds of Palestinians attempting to reach the aid sites, often with tanks, artillery, and drones. Israeli soldiers and officers have said they were ordered to fire on the unarmed civilians.
Even with the risk of death near aid sites, many Palestinians make the journey as the alternative is starvation. At least 66 Palestinian children have starved to death under the Israeli blockade of the Strip.
The Amnesty report concludes, “All the evidence gathered, including testimonies which Amnesty International is receiving from victims and witnesses, suggests that the GHF was designed so as to placate international concerns while constituting another tool of Israel’s genocide.”
