Soumaya Ghannoushi, writer and expert in Middle East politics, says that what is happening in Gaza is not merely starvation, but the deliberate breaking of a people.
She describes a woman kneeling in the dust, clawing at the ground for scraps of flour. Around her, others bend too, not in prayer, but in desperation. This, she says, is not simply hunger. It is a calculated effort to push people beyond the limits of human endurance. This is what Gaza’s aid now looks like. Not distribution, but oppression. Not relief, but ritual debasement.
The flour had been withheld for weeks, stockpiled, blocked, used as bait. Exhausted families walked for miles, past corpses and craters, to reach drop sites, only to find cages, soldiers, and drones. When they ran towards the food, they were shot.
On 1 June, more than 30 Palestinians were massacred and over 170 wounded near an aid distribution point in Rafah, as Israeli forces opened fire on starving civilians. The drop was coordinated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Aid has become a trap. Hunger, a pretext for slaughter. Ghannoushi says that they have built a bureaucracy of starvation and called it a humanitarian foundation.
She recalls the Nazi Hunger Plan, which deliberately starved millions. In the ghettos, food was weaponised, and access to bread and meat tightly controlled. Hunger was not a failure - it was policy. Under current plans, the average Palestinian in Gaza receives the same number of calories as Jews were given in the Warsaw Ghetto. This is not an analogy. It is arithmetic.
She concludes that Israel is not content with crushing Palestinian bodies. It wants to crush their souls. And while the world looks away, a mother still kneels in the rubble, scraping at the ground to feed her children with flour dusted in dirt and drenched in blood.
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