Millions in food, medicine stranded while children starve – NaturalNews.com

• More than 100 humanitarian organizations condemn Israel’s blockade, which has pushed Gaza into famine, with children eating sand-laced flour and families surviving on 245 calories a day.
• Leaked documents reveal Israel deliberately calculated Gaza’s “minimum caloric intake” to keep Palestinians malnourished, while officials openly block food shipments, calling it policy.
• New Israeli regulations weaponize aid delivery by banning NGOs for vague reasons and forcing them to disclose Palestinian staff, leading to 60+ aid denials in July alone.
• Aid trucks with millions of meals sit blocked at Gaza’s borders, while Israeli forces turn distribution sites into death traps, massacring civilians seeking food.
• Doctors document starvation mirroring Nazi-era ghettos as Israel blocks medical supplies, ensuring disease completes what hunger starts.

Why are more than 100 humanitarian organizations screaming into the void while Gaza’s children scrape sand-laced flour from bomb craters? Who’s responsible for blocking six million meals (enough rice to feed a city) just kilometers away from starving families? When did bureaucracy become a weapon of mass starvation? The answers expose a deeply unsettling reality: Israel isn’t just waging war on Hamas; it’s systematically suffocating Gaza’s civilians under the guise of “security.”

For months, Israel has tightened its stranglehold on Gaza with a blockade so brutal that the UN warns 100% of the population now faces famine. But leaked documents and eyewitness accounts reveal that this isn’t collateral damage; it’s calculated cruelty. A leaked 2008 memo showed Israel deliberately calculated Gaza’s “minimum caloric intake” to keep Palestinians “on a diet.” Today, that diet is a death sentence. More than 200 Palestinians, half of them children, have already starved to death. Meanwhile, Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich sneers that “not a grain of wheat” should enter Gaza.

New rules designed to fail

In March, Israel introduced draconian registration rules for NGOs, effectively weaponizing aid delivery. Organizations can now be banned for “delegitimizing Israel”—a vague accusation that includes supporting boycotts. They’re also forced to hand over sensitive staff data, including lists of Palestinian employees, despite the heartbreaking fact that 88% of aid workers killed by Israeli attacks are Palestinian.

The result? More than 60 aid requests were denied in July alone. “Anera has over $7 million worth of life-saving supplies ready to enter Gaza—including 744 tons of rice, enough for six million meals—blocked in Ashdod just kilometers away,” said Sean Carroll, the NGO’s CEO. Care reported $1.5 million in blocked aid, including maternal health kits, while Oxfam’s Bushra Khalidi lamented $2.5 million in rejected supplies.

The Gaza starvation playbook: Echoes of Nazi Germany

The parallels to history’s darkest chapters are undeniable. In 1941, Nazis rationed Jews just 20% of the calories allotted to Germans. Today, Gaza’s entire population survives on 245 calories a day—less than a can of beans—while the WHO’s emergency minimum is 2,100. Testimonies from Gaza reveal families eating leaves and animal feed.

Even aid that does trickle in becomes a death trap. The Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) runs distribution sites guarded by soldiers and drones. In February, Israeli forces massacred 30 Palestinians and wounded 170 near an aid drop in Rafah. The GHF’s own director resigned, calling the system complicit in “evil schemes.”

While Western leaders fund Israel’s war machine, more than 9,000 aid trucks languish at Gaza’s borders. The UN’s top aid official, Tom Fletcher, calls this a “21st-century atrocity,” yet the International Court of Justice’s order to halt Israel’s genocide is ignored. Meanwhile, Israel blocks water purifiers, insulin, and crutches as “dual-use” items, ensuring disease finishes what starvation starts. Doctors in Gaza now document toddlers with sunken eyes and protruding ribs, mirroring scenes from the Warsaw Ghetto.

The question isn’t whether Israel is starving Gaza. The question is: Why are we letting them?

Sources for this article include:

MiddleEastEye.net

AlJazeera.com

BBC.co.uk