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        headquarters in Tel Aviv, Antony Blinken participated in the
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style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-top: 0;"><em>Over
                        the past three weeks since Israel launched a
                        massive bombing campaign in Lebanon, much of the
                        media and political focus has shifted away from
                        Gaza. Israel is expected to imminently launch a
                        large attack against Iran, following Tehran’s
                        retaliatory missile strikes against Israeli
                        military targets last Tuesday. The United
                        States, while claiming to oppose a wider war in
                        the region, has continued to provide Israel with
                        weapons, intelligence, and political support,
                        consistently characterizing its offensive
                        actions and large scale killing of civilians as
                        “self defense.”</em></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><em>Over
                        the past 24 hours, the U.S.-backed Israeli
                        government has bombed the Palestinians of Gaza
                        with a ferocity reminiscent of the opening days
                        of its genocidal war launched one year ago this
                        week. Israel conducted more than 100 strikes
                        against an estimated 50 sites around northern
                        Gaza, including the densely populated Jabaliya
                        refugee camp as well as Nuseirat and Bureij. The
                        harrowing images and videos out of northern Gaza
                        show large numbers of children being maimed and
                        killed in air strikes on tent encampments and
                        residential buildings. At least 21 people were
                        killed in a strike on the Shuhada Al Aqsa mosque
                        in Deir Al-Balah. </em></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><em>The
                        Israeli military has ordered the expulsion of an
                        estimated 300,000 Palestinians from nearly all
                        areas of the north as Israeli ground forces and
                        tanks stormed into the area to begin encircling
                        Jabaliya. During the past year Israeli officials
                        have threatened that Palestinians who do not
                        obey the IDF’s evacuation orders would be deemed
                        enemy combatants or accomplices. “We have to
                        tell the residents of north Gaza that they have
                        one week to evacuate the territory, which then
                        becomes a military zone,” retired Israeli
                        General Giora Eiland told a Knesset committee
                        recently. “[E]very figure is a target and, most
                        importantly, no supplies enter this territory.”</em></p>
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                        Site News is committed to continuing to report
                        on Gaza and the role of the U.S. government in
                        facilitating the full spectrum destruction of
                        the Strip and its people. The past year has not
                        only destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure and,
                        according to confirmed statistics, killed more
                        than 41,000 people. As many as 10,000 are
                        estimated to be trapped under rubble. It has
                        also condemned a generation of Palestinian
                        children who manage to survive to a life of
                        stunted development, chronic health problems,
                        and trauma. </em></p>
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style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><em>My
                        colleague Yaniv Cogan has a new report for Drop
                        Site News today that exposes the role Secretary
                        of State Antony Blinken has played from the
                        earliest stages of the war in enabling Israel’s
                        starvation policy against Gaza. It is a story
                        packed with damning details and carefully
                        crafted non-answers from the U.S. State
                        Department to our questions.</em></p>
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                          Netanyahu and Antony Blinken on their way to a
                          meeting of the Israeli War Cabinet, October
                          16, 2023. Israeli Government Press Office
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                      Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks, Israeli
                      Cabinet Members Suggest</h1>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><em>By
                        Yaniv Cogan</em></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>From
                        the very beginning of Israel’s assault on the
                        Gaza Strip, U.S. Secretary of State Antony
                        Blinken had his hands on the steering wheel.
                        After October 7, Blinken was the first senior
                        U.S. official to arrive in Israel, on October
                        11. "I'm going with a very simple and clear
                        message... that the United States has Israel's
                        back," </span><a
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                        before boarding the plane. </span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>He
                        returned again days later. This time, Blinken
                        was there to demand that Israel rethink its
                        decision to </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d4dad495-c448-4b87-bf05-8ed319a3eea2?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">bomb any humanitarian aid</a><span>
                        entering Gaza and impose a “</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/4a066dbb-5319-49f5-a594-dadfdbd1d022?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">total siege</a><span>” on
                        the Strip. In exchange, U.S. President Joe Biden
                        offered to visit Israel himself. </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8182782d-5b47-4427-99cc-e51509296056?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Reportedly</a><span>,
                        Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
                        explained to Blinken upon his arrival on October
                        16, 2023: “I have got people in the cabinet who
                        don’t want an aspirin to get into Gaza because
                        of what’s happened.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>From
                        within the Kirya, the Israeli military’s main
                        headquarters in Tel Aviv, Blinken </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/fbd3fbc8-cb04-42f1-bc7b-b4285540e6aa?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">participated</a><span> in
                        the frantic discussions of the Israeli War
                        Cabinet—the decision-making forum guiding the
                        genocidal campaign—that were occuring in
                        parallel to conversations in the broader
                        Security Cabinet.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>According
                        to Channel 12 reporter </span><a
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Yaron Avraham</a><span>,
                        on October 16 and 17, “the [Security] Cabinet
                        deliberated for hours over the precise wording
                        of the decision, with each draft being passed
                        between the Cabinet room and Blinken's room, a
                        distance of a few meters away, inside the
                        Kirya…. Eventually, around 3 a.m., they arrive
                        at an agreed upon text that is read in the
                        Cabinet room in English.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Avraham’s
                        account of the process was </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/2cd769d9-7619-4ecb-a859-e896332294ac?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">independently
                        corroborated</a><span> by a reporter for the
                        competing Channel 13, who wrote: “The discussion
                        with Blinken is conducted as follows: he is
                        sitting in a room in the Kirya with his advisors
                        and security team, while Security Cabinet holds
                        the discussion; [Minister of Strategic Affairs
                        Ron] Dermer goes back and forth and interfaces
                        with him.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Blinken,
                        for his part, concluded the day with a </span><a
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">triumphant speech</a><span>
                        taking responsibility for the restarting of
                        humanitarian aid to Gaza:</span></p>
                    <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #00058c; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
                      <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><em>To
                          that end, today, and at our request, the
                          United States and Israel have agreed to
                          develop a plan that will enable humanitarian
                          aid from donor nations and multilateral
                          organizations to reach civilians in Gaza – and
                          them alone – including the possibility of
                          creating areas to help keep civilians our of
                          harm’s way.  It is critical that aid begin
                          flowing into Gaza as soon as possible.</em></p>
                      <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><em>We
                          share Israel’s concern that Hamas may seize or
                          destroy aid entering Gaza or otherwise
                          preventing it from reaching the people who
                          need it.  If Hamas in any way blocks
                          humanitarian assistance from reaching
                          civilians, including by seizing the aid
                          itself, we’ll be the first to condemn it and
                          we will work to prevent it from happening
                          again.</em></p>
                    </blockquote>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                        following day, after an additional round of
                        Cabinet meetings, this time helmed by both
                        Blinken and Biden, an outline of the decision
                        was </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/2115289f-6423-4d96-8803-934b7b2af7ce?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        by Prime Minster’s Netanyahu’s office: “We will
                        not allow humanitarian assistance in the form of
                        food and medicines from our territory to the
                        Gaza Strip” and, in a separate </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/e54a427d-3e99-4bad-9e7e-84d7cf673c88?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Hebrew version</a><span>,
                        “In light of President Biden's demand, Israel
                        will not thwart humanitarian supplies from Egypt
                        as long as it is only food, water and medicine
                        for the civilian population located in the
                        southern Gaza Strip or moving there, and as long
                        as these supplies do not reach Hamas. Any
                        supplies that reach Hamas will be thwarted.” The
                        Hebrew word לסכל, “to thwart,” is frequently
                        used by Israel to describe targeted killings and
                        assassinations. The previous policy of
                        "thwarting" all humanitarian supplies from
                        entering Gaza was conveyed to Egypt as an </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/a6222c3f-0fb1-41ea-8ad5-0947fbe5e96d?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">explicit threat</a><span>
                        to "bomb" aid trucks.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                        substance of the Blinken-approved policy was
                        starkly conveyed by Security Cabinet member
                        Bezalel Smotrich, who later </span><a
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                        Israeli media: “We in the cabinet were promised
                        at the outset that there would be monitoring,
                        and that aid trucks hijacked by Hamas and its
                        organizations [sic] would be bombed from the
                        air, and the aid would be halted.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">State
                      Department spokesperson Vedant Patel told Drop
                      Site News: “The suggestion that anyone at the
                      State Department signed off in any way on attacks
                      on humanitarian workers or convoys is absurd. We
                      have always been clear, including in the immediate
                      aftermath of October 7, that Israel has the right
                      to strike Hamas militants. Secretary Blinken has
                      been equally clear that Israel needs to ensure
                      that humanitarian aid is delivered to Gaza and
                      that humanitarian workers inside Gaza are
                      protected.” The State Department did not clarify
                      whether it approved carrying out airstrikes
                      against Hamas militants (or those indiscriminately
                      classified as militants) who secure aid convoys or
                      seize their contents.</p>
                    <h2 class="header-anchor-post"
style="--highlight-bg: rgba(var(--color-bg-accent-themed-rgb), 0.2); -moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-family: 'SF Pro Display', -apple-system-headline, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>“Minimal
                        Aid Should Be Allowed”</strong></h2>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>For
                        Smotrich and other Israeli policymakers, the
                        U.S.’s approval of the policy presented an
                        opportunity to realize aspirations they had
                        harbored long before October 7th. Already in
                        2018, as Palestinians in Gaza resisted the
                        Israeli blockade—jokingly </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/437e6b19-0371-4be6-ad8c-222ac635a710?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">referred to</a><span> by
                        the Israeli government as “an appointment with a
                        dietician”—through mass protests, Smotrich </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/ff583645-2cdf-4d17-a294-bb08ebe26ad4?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">stated</a><span>: “As far
                        as I'm concerned, Gaza should be hermetically
                        sealed. We shouldn't provide them anything. Let
                        them die of hunger, thirst, and malaria. I don't
                        care, they are not my citizens, I owe them
                        nothing”.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                        first part of the humanitarian aid policy
                        approved by Blinken—the barring of entry of aid
                        from within Israeli territory—was short-lived.
                        By December 2023, aid had begun entering
                        directly through Israel, and from the very first
                        moment Israel’s monitoring mechanism,
                        implemented shortly after the meetings on
                        October 16 and 17, required all aid, regardless
                        of origin, to go through checks within Israel
                        before reaching Gaza, </span><a
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">resulting in major delays</a><span>.
                        But the second policy—the “thwarting” of aid
                        shipments within Gaza if they “reach Hamas”—also
                        proved to be an effective tool in Israel’s
                        arsenal when it came to starving the Gazan
                        population.</span></p>
                    <div class="pullquote"
style="border-bottom: 1px solid #e6e6e6; border-top: 1px solid #e6e6e6; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;">
                      <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 500; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px 0; text-align: center;">The
                        Hebrew word לסכל, “to thwart,” is frequently
                        used by Israel to describe targeted killings and
                        assassinations.</p>
                    </div>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>As
                        2023 came to an end, the UN Security Council
                        voted on a resolution to facilitate the entry of
                        aid into Gaza, which had been significantly </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/eb0ede36-1bf2-4e86-a33f-0f91aaa244ca?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        under U.S. pressure. UN Secretary General
                        António Guterres </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/17b12317-6fc3-41ec-9711-dd2b2820f873?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">explained</a><span>:
                        “Many people are measuring the effectiveness of
                        the humanitarian operation in Gaza based on the
                        number of trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent,
                        the UN, and our partners that are allowed to
                        unload aid across the border. This is a mistake.
                        The real problem is that the way Israel is
                        conducting this offensive is creating massive
                        obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian
                        aid inside Gaza.” </span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Aid
                        that had made it through into Gaza without
                        rotting, despite delays caused by the military
                        and by Israeli protesters egged on by the
                        government to block aid trucks, had to then be
                        distributed within Gaza using a handful of
                        trucks Israel allowed to operate in The Strip,
                        running on barely available fuel, driven under
                        fire over destroyed roads filled with unexploded
                        munitions, and delivered without real time
                        communications due to blackouts imposed by the
                        Israeli government. For over a million refugees
                        confined to the south of The Strip, whatever
                        food they had received had to then be stored in
                        tents, using increasingly scarce containers.
                        Meanwhile, the domestic food production capacity
                        of Gaza has been decimated through the
                        deliberate and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/63ee15b6-bfa8-482b-b55b-fa87b84cfad3?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        destruction of agriculture by the IDF and
                        bakeries. </span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Guterres’s
                        remarks were quoted in the </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/394524df-a422-4434-a257-cc32bd37b5d7?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        made by the South African government to the
                        International Court of Justice one week later,
                        alongside comments from a senior official from
                        UNRWA, which has coordinated most of the
                        humanitarian efforts in Gaza, characterizing the
                        resolution as “a greenlight for continued
                        genocide.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>On
                        January 26, a panel of 17 judges found “a real
                        and imminent risk” to the rights of Palestinians
                        under the Genocide Convention. On the very same
                        day, the U.S. </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f5af22a5-78cd-4e02-997e-27d74919d066?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">cut funding</a><span> for
                        UNRWA after a narrative aggressively promoted by
                        Israel Knesset members that the agency—which
                        employed tens of thousands in the Gaza Strip—was
                        also employing an untold number of </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8ae184b6-383c-45ad-ad06-59ae73001911?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">members of Hamas</a><span>
                        and that “terrorists” had been students in
                        UNRWA-run schools. </span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">UNRWA
                      “is a complete cover up for Hamas activities and
                      terrorist activities,” Knesset member Sharren
                      Haskel told the foreign media. “Hamas has taken
                      over this organization.”</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Speaking
                      to the Israeli media, Haskel, who has along with
                      the rest of the New Hope party joined the
                      government coalition this week, added, "There are
                      13,000 UNRWA workers in the Gaza Strip, and they
                      are all Hamas members or their relatives."</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                        funding freeze, which has been described at the
                        time as a “temporary pause,” has </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/92c7b1f2-4399-40a9-8aeb-46be74918883?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">largely persisted</a><span>
                        to this day, crippling the agency’s humanitarian
                        efforts. In UNRWA’s stead, Israel cultivated
                        relations with foreign NGOs, most notably World
                        Central Kitchen, who refrained from criticizing
                        Israeli policy or insisting on a ceasefire, and
                      </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/bf2815be-d5bf-4fcc-809d-960b4d4540a7?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">lacked the infrastructure</a><span>
                        and expertise to make up for the debilitation of
                        UNRWA.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Around
                        the same time, Netanyahu </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/1d06b538-d298-4566-8f27-44491526f8d1?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">repeatedly</a><span> </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f17d6ccd-91d5-4b42-969e-001b25485f02?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">emphasized</a><span> in
                        public speeches that the amount of aid Israel is
                        allowing into Gaza is “minimal.” Former
                        Brigadier General Effi Eitam, who </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/e67cdbd6-d988-4f5c-9e50-5ad33a1f8b2b?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">reportedly</a><span>
                        became one of Netanyahu’s close confidants and
                        advisors in the wake of October 7th, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/9cf96353-db65-4695-b2e9-91e056b1e749?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">shed light</a><span> on
                        the meaning on the meaning of the phrase:
                        “Regarding the humanitarian aid, minimal aid
                        should be allowed, and when I say minimal this
                        means—not to shy away from a humanitarian crisis
                        in Gaza. There are no innocents in Gaza.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>On
                        February 6th 2024, Security Cabinet member Gidon
                        Sa’ar, head of the right wing New Hope party
                        (which has since left the coalition), criticized
                        the shift in policy. In </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/24b107a1-ab5a-4cb0-9da9-dee01301bcbf?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">a Zoom call</a><span>
                        with party members, Sa’ar declared “I'm
                        currently of the opinion that humanitarian aid
                        to Gaza should be halted immediately, until the
                        formulation of a humanitarian aid [mechanism]
                        which will not be subject to Hamas takeovers,
                        nor the distribution of aid by Hamas to the
                        civilian population.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">This
                      policy, Sa’ar said, was already anchored in “a
                      [Security] Cabinet decision that was made at the
                      beginning of the war, which stated that the
                      humanitarian supply from Egypt will be allowed as
                      long as this supply did not reach Hamas, and that
                      the supply that does reach Hamas will be
                      thwarted.” According to him, the policy was
                      endorsed by “The United States of America … in the
                      talks that took place in the middle of October,
                      including the talks with Secretary of State
                      Blinken, who was visiting [Israel] and took part
                      in discussions, mainly with the War Cabinet, on
                      the subject of humanitarian aid.” </p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">“Right
                      now,” he said, “on the eve of another visit of the
                      American Secretary of State in Israel, we must
                      revive this idea, so as not to undermine the aim I
                      mentioned earlier, which is one of the war aims,
                      which is the destruction of Hamas's governmental
                      capabilities.”</p>
                    <h2 class="header-anchor-post"
style="--highlight-bg: rgba(var(--color-bg-accent-themed-rgb), 0.2); -moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-family: 'SF Pro Display', -apple-system-headline, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>Aid
                        Attacks</strong></h2>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>As
                        Sa’ar was speaking, Israeli policy was already
                        shifting. On February 5th, the Israeli </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d253ca41-62cb-4e5a-aa57-f6a93d283b40?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">military shelled</a><span>
                        an UNRWA aid truck, leading the agency and the
                        World Food Program to halt aid missions for </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/befcd4bf-91c2-49a5-870e-874b668d9bed?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">weeks</a><span>. The IDF
                        spokesperson </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/cbe66b10-17ac-48cb-bb5a-ca97c6a1f3b0?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">told the media</a><span>
                        the incident was “under review” and refused to
                        provide additional details. One day later,
                        however, Israeli outlet i24NEWS </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/1d978335-ad55-417b-977d-15b1d3df13ac?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">reported</a><span>, based
                        on unnamed “security sources” that the IDF had
                        targeted “stolen Gaza aid trucks that Hamas uses
                        as transportation for ammunition.” </span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>That
                        same day an Israeli airstrike </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/993e1617-4909-4980-ae8a-1bdc6d582382?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">targeted</a><span> a
                        police car which provided security escort to a
                        flour truck, “ripping the passengers to pieces”
                        according to witnesses. Leaflets bearing the
                        picture of the destroyed vehicle were </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f25d63b3-2377-4f3c-beb6-d541a4ed2bac?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">later dropped</a><span>
                        by the Israeli military over Gaza, warning: “Our
                        message is clear; the Israeli security services
                        will not allow the security apparatuses of Hamas
                        to continue working.”</span></p>
                    <div class="pullquote"
style="border-bottom: 1px solid #e6e6e6; border-top: 1px solid #e6e6e6; font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;">
                      <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 500; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px 0; text-align: center;">“We
                        know that this can have lifelong detrimental
                        effects on children. Even a short period of
                        malnutrition, let alone one that lasts a year.”
                      </p>
                    </div>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>By
                        February 9th, UNRWA’s director, Philippe
                        Lazzarini, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/dd74d5e8-e3fb-4af2-b7f1-d8df5944a28a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">told the press</a><span>
                        that the Israeli military had assassinated eight
                        Palestinian police officers who were providing
                        escorts to humanitarian aid convoys. A few days
                        later, then-U.S. State Department special envoy
                        for Middle East humanitarian issues David
                        Satterfield </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5a89a317-769a-4fd3-aca7-a36881e22305?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">cited</a><span> the
                        targeting of Hamas’s aid truck security escorts
                        by the Israeli military as a major obstacle for
                        the delivery of aid: “With the departure of
                        police escorts, it has been virtually impossible
                        for the UN or anyone else, Jordan, the UAE, or
                        any other implementer to safely move assistance
                        in Gaza.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>On
                        March 28, the International Court of Justice </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/98f35dea-df74-4ceb-9cf7-6d653b82aa96?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">noted</a><span>
                        “unprecedented levels of food insecurity
                        experienced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
                        over recent weeks,” and ordered Israel to “take
                        all necessary and effective measures to ensure,
                        without delay… the unhindered provision… of
                        urgently needed basic services and humanitarian
                        assistance, including food, water, electricity,
                        fuel, shelter, clothing, hygiene and sanitation
                        requirements, as well as medical supplies and
                        medical care.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Less
                        than 24 hours later, Israel </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/ec5cc869-c1c3-4f25-89f3-1a34403799af?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">reportedly</a><span>
                        targeted and killed several local policemen who
                        were securing aid deliveries in two separate
                        attacks, along with some of their family members
                        and unrelated bystander. And on </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/9880a77d-a374-44f2-a0c1-f0d7af8ffb85?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">the next day</a><span>,
                        the Israeli military killed 12 people, among
                        them officials representing tribal committees,
                        who were coordinating aid distribution efforts.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Two
                        days later, Israel’s favored aid provider, World
                        Central Kitchen, fell victim to the same policy:
                        over the course of </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8777bb5d-a0e3-436e-a2af-19fedcbcf4cc?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">several minutes</a><span>
                        an IDF drone pursued a 7-member WCK team driving
                        along a designated, and, in three different
                        airstrikes several kilometers apart, targeted
                        and killed every single one of them. The
                        vehicles, marked with a WCK logo which the IDF
                        claimed was not visible through the drone’s
                        thermal camera, were driving along a preapproved
                        route, escorting an aid convoy on a mission
                        coordinated with the Israeli military. </span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">World
                      Central Kitchen subsequently decided to halt their
                      aid operations in Gaza, though they later resumed
                      it.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                        Israeli military ended up putting the blame on
                        Colonel Nochi Mendel, who ordered the strike,
                        and has previously </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/b6fd6fdf-f6cb-410d-a64a-686dcf1c00ec?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">expressed support</a><span>
                        for halting aid provision to Gaza. Mendel’s
                        punishment amounted to being let go from his
                        military service, and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/5f70ca2b-6710-4555-87cb-4ebd646c099a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">going back</a><span> to
                        his prestigious day job as director of the
                        Settlement Department at the Israeli Ministry of
                        Defense.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>But
                        the right wing Makor Rishon newspaper </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/cd20c155-a9d6-4e48-85d7-08c32e3648ea?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">concluded</a><span>, on
                        the basis of conversations with drone operators
                        involved in the assassination of the aid
                        workers, that Mendel was only implementing the
                        official policy jointly set by Blinken and the
                        Israeli cabinet back in October: “The mission
                        order made it clear that the IDF is instructed
                        to thwart an attempt by Hamas terrorists to take
                        over the aid trucks that entered Gaza. The IDF
                        received this instruction from the Security
                        Cabinet at the beginning of the war, sometime
                        around October 18, 2023, following heavy
                        pressure from the United States.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Concerns
                      raised by the drone operators about hitting aid
                      workers were dismissed by their commanders, who
                      insisted on strict adherence to the order, “no
                      matter what.”</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>U.S.
                        Secretary of State Antony Blinken </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d69afd44-45cc-4fa4-8c4f-98c550877413?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">reacted</a><span> to the
                        killing of the WCK aid workers by stating:
                        “Humanitarian workers are heroes. They show the
                        best of what humanity has to offer. I extend my
                        deepest condolences to those who lost their
                        lives in the strike on WCK in Gaza. There must
                        be a swift, thorough, and impartial
                        investigation into this incident.” </span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>But
                        follow-ups by U.S. press in the next few months
                        revealed the State Department was happy to have
                        the investigation </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/6cee6c23-aaed-492e-8ba7-63b93e0a8aab?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">conducted by</a><span>
                        the president and CEO of one of Israel's largest
                        arms manufacturers. The ultimate culprit for the
                        killings—the policy that Blinken had
                        brokered—was not amended.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>In
                        his statement to Drop Site News, Patel, the
                        State Department Spokesperson, claimed: “We have
                        intervened directly with the Israeli government
                        on multiple occasions to insist they improve
                        deconfliction mechanisms to avoid harm to
                        humanitarian workers. Strikes on humanitarian
                        workers are unacceptable, and Israel has a
                        responsibility to do everything in its power to
                        avoid them.” Patel’s statement did not specify
                        whether the U.S. has insisted Israel abandon its
                        policy of targeting the Palestinian civil police
                        or armed escorts of aid, nor reiterated their </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/e5ecd29d-9706-4f3f-a060-3edc1732e571?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">previously reported</a><span>
                        “concern” over the policy.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>On
                        August 29th, the Israeli military assassinated
                        four Palestinian aid delivery workers who
                        accompanied a convoy organized by the U.S.-based
                        NGO Anera. Again, the Israeli government </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/704696c4-9d75-4cf6-be4b-f8b14a3efe05?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">cited</a><span> the
                        operational policy of targeting armed forces who
                        assume control of the aid as justification for
                        the strike. </span></p>
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style="box-sizing: content-box; color: #777777; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -.15px; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 8px; padding-left: 15%; padding-right: 15%; text-align: center; width: 70%;">Fadi
                          Zant, aged 9, experiencing malnutrition,
                          received treatment after being evacuated from
                          the northern Gaza Strip to Rafah, on March 24,
                          2024. Zant, who has cystic fibrosis,
                          reportedly lost half of his body weight. He
                          and his family were evacuated to Egypt and
                          then to the U.S. Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu
                          via Getty Images.</figcaption></figure>
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                    <h2 class="header-anchor-post"
style="--highlight-bg: rgba(var(--color-bg-accent-themed-rgb), 0.2); -moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-family: 'SF Pro Display', -apple-system-headline, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>Devastating
                        Effects</strong></h2>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                        results of the starvation policies in Gaza are
                        no longer a matter of speculation. </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/1d636a6f-d3a0-425a-b5b6-0d449b4dbf28?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">A study </a><span>conducted
                        by scholars from various Gaza universities, all
                        of which have now been destroyed by the Israeli
                        military, found the average Palestinian in the
                        Strip has lost over 10 kilograms (or 22 pounds)
                        in weight since October 7, 2023 and the number
                        of underweight individuals has quadrupled. The
                        Global Nutrition Cluster, which coordinates the
                        activity of various NGOs combating malnutrition,
                      </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/10b138ae-e155-4e5a-bc16-4027cd857f4b?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">assesses</a><span> that
                        over 50,000 children under the age of 5 require
                        acute malnutrition treatment services.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">“We
                      know that this can have lifelong detrimental
                      effects on children. Even a short period of
                      malnutrition, let alone one that lasts a year,”
                      said Dr. Yara Asi, co-director of the Palestine
                      Program for Health and Human Rights at Harvard
                      University. “Cognitive growth is slowed, so these
                      children will perform worse in schools. They will
                      be less able to participate in the economy.
                      Physically stunted growth, which is when children
                      do not grow at the normal pace, cannot be
                      reversed.”</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">“Their
                      bodies will be permanently stunted as a result of
                      the malnutrition they experienced as children,”
                      Asi continued. “There's likely other effects that
                      we just have not been able to study. You'll find
                      little surveys done from contexts around the world
                      that look at this in the long term, but they
                      almost all say we simply don't know enough to know
                      how these children are going to grow up.”</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>As
                        the U.S. was busy formulating the policies that
                        brought about this outcome, it has
                        simultaneously sought to help Israel construct a
                        narrative that would help it carry on starving
                        the population of Gaza unimpeded. “The images
                        [seen] in America are brutal. There are enemies
                        of Israel that are actively telling the story in
                        a very negative way, and there are a lot of
                        things that can be pointed to if that's the view
                        you’re taking,” U.S. ambassador to Israel, Jack
                        Lew, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/9fc9d2db-79a9-4f89-840e-72a6d1e77b84?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">told</a><span> a crowd of
                        Israeli academics in July. “Israel needs to tell
                        the story that it is making sure that people are
                        getting what they need for there not to be a
                        famine.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                        State Department, meanwhile, continuously
                        offered lip service to the suffering of
                        Palestinians. When asked about the U.S.’s
                        responsibility for the spread of starvation in
                        Gaza, State Department spokesperson Matthew
                        Miller </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/77352dd9-253d-4e12-8a30-abd7c2e3619a?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">responded</a><span>: “It
                        is the United States that has secured all of the
                        major agreements to get more humanitarian
                        assistance into Gaza going back to the very
                        early days, the first week after October 7th,
                        when the Secretary traveled to the region and
                        the President traveled to Israel, and together
                        convinced Israel to open Rafah crossing to allow
                        humanitarian assistance in.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(54, 55, 55); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">In
                      fact, Blinken and Biden’s visit resulted in the
                      formulation of the Israeli policy of starvation as
                      it stands today. “The United States, including
                      Blinken and others, have legitimized this tactic,”
                      said Asi. “Starvation as a weapon of war is okay
                      as long as we agree with your aims.” That
                      U.S.-approved policy was then implemented using
                      U.S.-manufactured weapons, with the backing of
                      U.S.-imposed sanctions, under the veil of a
                      U.S.-constructed narrative.</p>
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