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 and to deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as part of its ongoing genocide.
Heartbreaking testimonies gathered from medical staff, parents of children hospitalized for malnutrition and displaced Palestinians struggling to survive paint a horrifying picture of acute levels of starvation and desperation in Gaza. Their accounts provide further evidence of the catastrophic suffering caused by Israel’s ongoing restrictions on life-saving aid and its deadly militarized aid scheme coupled with mass forced displacement, relentless bombardment and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.
“While the eyes of the world were diverted to the recent hostilities between Israel and Iran, Israel’s genocide has continued unabated in Gaza, including through the infliction of conditions of life that have created a deadly mix of hunger and disease pushing the population past breaking point,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.
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.
Comparisons and metaphors are not equivalency there is no denying the similarity between the tactic used by Nazis and the IDF. A genocide also don’t have to be fast, Israel is a sadistic terrorist state that enjoy slow death of Palestinians as people and as an identity
The Nazis systematically carried out mass shootings, gas chamber exterminations, and ghettos to erase entire communities, while the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have conducted mass bombings, airstrikes, and ground assaults in Gaza that have devastated neighborhoods and caused tens of thousands of civilian deaths, including women and children. Where Nazis used ghettos to confine and starve populations, Israel enforces a blockade on Gaza, restricting essential supplies like food, medicine, and fuel, resulting in widespread suffering and death. The Nazis aimed to annihilate entire groups through industrialized killing; similarly, many Israeli soldiers and observers have described their actions in Gaza as indiscriminate and brutal, with some soldiers even admitting they felt like Nazis during operations, targeting civilians and destroying whole neighborhoods. Although the methods differ—mass shootings and gas chambers versus aerial bombardment and siege