'The Depravity of Gaza's Aid Crisis Shows What Happens When Profit Comes Before Human Rights'
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has described the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as "deplorable" and "indefensible" while dancing around naming what is unfolding by its actual definitions: famine and genocide.
The IPC, a global initiative that classifies food insecurity, has warned that the worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in the Gaza Strip. Gaza is the only territory in the world where 100% of the population is at risk of famine - and the horror is entirely man made. There are no "two sides". It is not "complicated".
Israel has been operating an illegal blockade on life-sustaining supplies since March, preventing the delivery of nearly all shipments of food, fuel, medical equipment, baby formula and any other goods that could aid the civilian population of Gaza.
As the occupying force, Israel is legally responsible for ensuring the basic needs of the population of Gaza are met.
In January of last year, Law for Palestine released a database of over 500 statements from Israeli sources inciting genocide, many of which were from the lips of government ministers. The persecution and collective punishment of the population of Gaza is demonstrably not about Hamas, nor is it a war; this has always been about the eradication of a people and Israel's dominance over their region.
As part of its grand designs, Israel maintains total control over every morsel of food a Palestinian eats. It has banned fishing, destroyed every inch of land for the cultivation of crops and has dismantled the UN system for aid delivery, replacing it with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) - a dangerous facade wherein civilians on the brink of starvation are lured to militarised aid sites only to be murdered by IDF soldiers, their lives brutally and violently stolen while seeking a bag of flour.
It is grotesque depravity, actioned at the hands of one of the world's most powerful militaries, backed by the US, and facilitated by US contractors in the pursuit of profit.
The GHF is an opaque for-profit operation set-up last November under private security contractor Safe Reach Solutions. To date, its funding, board and operations remain undisclosed. In just over a month, the UN reports that over 850 Gazans have been killed at, or within close proximity to, GHF sites in Gaza.
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The group has been dogged by controversy and condemnation; over 170 aid groups have called for the GHF to be disbanded, and the French foreign minister has said the US-Israeli-backed group has generated a "bloodbath".
The private security firm was legally registered in Switzerland and the United States before dissolving its Swiss entities following human rights investigations. The GHF's former CEO Jake Wood resigned the day before operations began, claiming it was "not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence".
Boston Consulting Group, a US-based firm involved in setting up the GHF, has subsequently fired two senior team members and cut all ties.
Meanwhile, the GHF continues to operate ad hoc at limited locations in Gaza, and civilians - weak from critical malnourishment - are forced to walk for miles in search of meagre rations. Many do not return. The GHF has denied reports of shootings at its sites and often parrots Israeli government messaging.
Reports suggest Israel is insisting that the continued operation of the GHF be a condition in now-stalled ceasefire negotiations. The group is not independent; it is a paid-for extension of Israel's operations with the full backing of the US...
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has described the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as "deplorable" and "indefensible" while dancing around naming what is unfolding by its actual definitions: famine and genocide.
The IPC, a global initiative that classifies food insecurity, has warned that the worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in the Gaza Strip. Gaza is the only territory in the world where 100% of the population is at risk of famine - and the horror is entirely man made. There are no "two sides". It is not "complicated".
Israel has been operating an illegal blockade on life-sustaining supplies since March, preventing the delivery of nearly all shipments of food, fuel, medical equipment, baby formula and any other goods that could aid the civilian population of Gaza.
As the occupying force, Israel is legally responsible for ensuring the basic needs of the population of Gaza are met.
In January of last year, Law for Palestine released a database of over 500 statements from Israeli sources inciting genocide, many of which were from the lips of government ministers. The persecution and collective punishment of the population of Gaza is demonstrably not about Hamas, nor is it a war; this has always been about the eradication of a people and Israel's dominance over their region.
As part of its grand designs, Israel maintains total control over every morsel of food a Palestinian eats. It has banned fishing, destroyed every inch of land for the cultivation of crops and has dismantled the UN system for aid delivery, replacing it with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) - a dangerous facade wherein civilians on the brink of starvation are lured to militarised aid sites only to be murdered by IDF soldiers, their lives brutally and violently stolen while seeking a bag of flour.
It is grotesque depravity, actioned at the hands of one of the world's most powerful militaries, backed by the US, and facilitated by US contractors in the pursuit of profit.
The GHF is an opaque for-profit operation set-up last November under private security contractor Safe Reach Solutions. To date, its funding, board and operations remain undisclosed. In just over a month, the UN reports that over 850 Gazans have been killed at, or within close proximity to, GHF sites in Gaza.
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The group has been dogged by controversy and condemnation; over 170 aid groups have called for the GHF to be disbanded, and the French foreign minister has said the US-Israeli-backed group has generated a "bloodbath".
The private security firm was legally registered in Switzerland and the United States before dissolving its Swiss entities following human rights investigations. The GHF's former CEO Jake Wood resigned the day before operations began, claiming it was "not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence".
Boston Consulting Group, a US-based firm involved in setting up the GHF, has subsequently fired two senior team members and cut all ties.
Meanwhile, the GHF continues to operate ad hoc at limited locations in Gaza, and civilians - weak from critical malnourishment - are forced to walk for miles in search of meagre rations. Many do not return. The GHF has denied reports of shootings at its sites and often parrots Israeli government messaging.
Reports suggest Israel is insisting that the continued operation of the GHF be a condition in now-stalled ceasefire negotiations. The group is not independent; it is a paid-for extension of Israel's operations with the full backing of the US...
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