Israel's aid blockade is a man-made catastrophe — and the U.S. is helping it happen

Both events follow the rollout of a new aid plan that relies on Israeli and U.S.-backed private aid organizations, and which has been criticized by the U.N. and the international humanitarian community for violating international standards of neutrality. It is a man-made catastrophe, a siege that amounts to the forced starvation of over 2 million Palestinians, and it is a moral failure of the West’s conscience. But Gaza in 2025 represents something even more dire and more sinister: the systematic targeting of the very essentials of life in advance of a policy not to punish Palestinians but, as aid groups have warned, to advance Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing.

Author: Ayman Mohyeldin

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