How GHF turned Gaza aid distribution into a profit-driven death trap

A video from Gaza. Another sunny day. No clouds. 

Hundreds of sweating people lie crowded together on the hot sand, stretching as far as the eye can see. Waiting. Gunfire crackles toward them. They duck their heads. 

In the middle of the crowd rises a mound of sand. Bullets hit the mound again and again, sending up small clouds of dust. People shout at each other not to move. The shooting continues. A video that encapsulates an entire reality.

Since the start of its war on Gaza, Israel has restricted the amount of humanitarian aid allowed into the strip as a pressure tactic. Its declared goal is a military victory. Its undeclared goal: ethnic cleansing. 

For two years, Israel tried to suppress horrific images of starving children, fearing international pressure. But in recent months, it has treated images of famine as merely a PR problem, one to be solved by denying their authenticity or casting doubt on the medical history of the starving, as if it were somehow legitimate to starve children to death if they had pre-existing health issues.

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