The so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has replaced the U.N. as the only source of aid distribution in Gaza. Hungry parents seeking aid have since been shot at, injured and killed every single day since American GHF took over.
Ships carrying infant formula are boarded in international waters, activists detained, brought to Israel, and then deported, while babies are literally starving to death in Gaza. By all international standards, blocking aid to civilians is a war crime.
Even president Trump has admitted you can’t fake the starvation we’re seeing. Indeed, A.I. models have never seen anything like this because such systematic genocide is unprecedented, despite warnings of famine to the Biden administration as far back as January.
The images of communities being bulldozed in the West Bank, the videos of settlers killing civilians and burning cars, stealing goats, the testimony of E.R. doctors in the last operating hospital in Gaza describing a trend in gunshot wounds to the groins of men, parents mourning martyred children — the stuff of nightmares is as real as daylight today.
And yet, our seemingly endless well of money and weapons flows without hesitation. And Israeli leadership continues their campaign of denying any starvation as they annex more territory.
Meanwhile on our soil we drive out the smartest, most hardworking people here in the U.S. as we wage war on our own immigrant workers, students and families.
Do the most awful atrocities have to come to pass in order for us to be able to condemn them retrospectively?
What must it take in order to see the humanity in others and wish for them a dignified life?
Jake Trimble, Salt Lake City
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