Air drop — WikiCC

It Is Not Enough

It’s still a genocide.

You can’t starve children to death in self-defence. Yet, we have been watching Israel do this for months now. Since May 19th, Israel has only allowed 70 aid trucks to enter Gaza each day, just 11% of what is needed to feed the population, plunging the entire strip into a deadly famine. On the 27th of May, the US and IDF-backed “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” militarised aid in the strip, luring thousands of starved Palestinians towards IDF guns. Delivering aid this way is illegal under international law, and now we can see why, given that over 1,000 Palestinians have been shot dead by the IDF while they sought essential aid from these sites. Not to mention the fact that the famine has intensified, with 90,000 women and children now requiring urgent care for acute malnutrition, and 147 people, including 88 children, having already died of malnutrition. Fourteen of these deaths occurred in the last 24 hours (as of writing), indicating that the death toll of this man-made famine is about to skyrocket. But don’t worry, this is all solved now, as the IDF is letting aid be air-dropped into the country and is beginning to allow aid corridors to open. Problem solved, right? No. Absolutely not.

This is not a famine. It is a weaponisation of aid. It is a forced starvation meant to weaken and kill a native people. Furthermore, it is a textbook example of a…