Humanitarian and non-humanitarian aid

The United States has lifted UNRWA's immunity, thus paving the way for its prosecution and condemnation, making attacks on UN bodies a common occurrence. This portends the liquidation of the bodies of that international organization, one by one, leading to the closure of the International Criminal Court and the Supreme Court, as well as the Human Rights Council, UNESCO, UNICEF, and others. These are the bodies that Israel fought and prevented from operating in the Gaza Strip in particular, so that these bodies would be unable to assist, provide aid, or at least monitor and document.

Israel has effectively prevented Palestinians from enjoying the same rights and privileges enjoyed by other nations. Therefore, Israel has prevented all these international bodies from providing their services, tightening the siege on the Palestinian people and persecuting them away from the eyes of the world. This allows Israel to monopolize the complete narrative and present it to the world as Israel wants and sees it.

Accordingly, Israel has spread the word among the people that food is sufficient for another month in the Gaza Strip, and that the aid provided is either being hoarded by Hamas or stolen and then sold at high prices. Not only that, but there are those who smuggle weapons, money, or dual-use materials into that aid. Over the course of a year and a half, Israel has been able to transform the issue of humanitarian aid into a global issue, rather than just a punitive tool used in a very inhumane manner. This is because Israel has made the provision of aid, its quantity, types, and methods of delivery, a method of negotiation, political, and security blackmail of the first degree, and has made the issue of feeding the Palestinian people a matter in which major and regional powers intervene.

Moreover, Israel has turned this aid into a pretentious, blatant display of moral scrutiny and emotional accountability. Israeli propaganda has spread the message that the cabinet is discussing how to provide aid to the people of Gaza—after personal pressure from Trump—to prevent famine there, as if there were no famine there. For well-known reasons, Israelis have begun discussing the means of providing this aid: Will it be through the occupation army, or through intermediary security companies? This public Israeli discourse is not for God's sake, as they say, but rather part of this propaganda aimed at whitewashing Israel's image, absolving it of moral and legal accountability, and cleansing the conscience and freeing it from the accusations of starving people in the Gaza Strip. This is similar to the "concern" expressed by some fighter pilots regarding the large number of civilians who fall in every sortie over the Gaza Strip. This "concern" is not fear or a moral outpouring, but rather hypocrisy and an attempt to evade international accountability, or it is part of that moral image that Israel is trying in vain to present to the world, without any success whatsoever, since most parties in the world know that the Israeli media machine, with all its arms, lies and fabricates, and the latest of these was the false narrative, modified several times, about the killing of nine paramedics, through the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, and ending with the Salah al-Din axis tunnel, which was nothing more than a water drain, according to what former Defense Minister Galant stated.

Gaza is starving in plain sight, and Israel has managed—for reasons well known—to silence, bribe, or threaten most parties and platforms. As a result, these parties and platforms have been content to turn their backs on what is happening in Gaza or to discuss it without hinting at punishment or even loudly criticizing it. As for our Arab world, it has been content and distracted by either blaming or demonizing the victim, or leaving it to the imams of mosques to offer disciplined supplications that do not smack of hatred or incitement.

Gaza is starving, and not just starving, it is being denied and forgotten. The crossings and spaces have been closed, and the planes, agencies, countries, and even individuals have disappeared. Gaza has been left to its hunger, death, and suffering. Israel has managed to numb awareness around it and to blind the eyes and ears to the scenes of killing and destruction. It has worked in every way we know and those we do not know to convince the world that what it is doing is part of self-defense, and that what is happening in the Gaza Strip is necessary in order to implement this saying. In this regard, the new, religious, and enthusiastic American ambassador tweeted when he was asked to pressure Israel to allow the entry of humanitarian aid. He said with great enthusiasm and reassurance as well: Pressure Hamas.

Today, Gaza is suffering from murder, hunger, threats of expulsion, and the denial of the right to exist, as well as denial and oblivion.

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Israel has effectively prevented Palestinians from enjoying the same rights enjoyed by other nations. Therefore, Israel has prevented all these international bodies from providing their services, tightening the siege on the Palestinian people and persecuting them away from the world's attention.