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<h1 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: 2em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;">Blinken
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
href="https://substack.com/redirect/b5692166-fe25-4d3c-ad06-96d4e6dee25f?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Blinken reportedly said</a><span>
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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
href="https://substack.com/redirect/624839b4-ddc0-4bb6-8c35-2f76dee04d27?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f1b39585-46d9-4701-b71d-6e7a57fe79c2?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
moz-do-not-send="true">publicly announced</a><span>
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d1676fdd-59d8-468a-baa5-4ee2c1788f1e?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
moz-do-not-send="true">told</a><span> the
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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
href="https://substack.com/redirect/8ea56a45-3e01-4535-beb1-6f23230e7a03?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
moz-do-not-send="true">watered down</a><span>
under U.S. pressure. UN Secretary General
António Guterres </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/17b12317-6fc3-41ec-9711-dd2b2820f873?j=eyJ1IjoibHZwcGIifQ.9RIwWbE6EVIB7Jy8lfazxZKfps8R18neRGMKwOiqnRM"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
moz-do-not-send="true">gleeful</a><span>
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
moz-do-not-send="true">application</a><span>
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
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"
rel=""
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
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"
rel=""
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
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"
rel=""
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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"
rel=""
style="color: #00058c; text-decoration: none;"
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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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,
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Effects</strong></h2>
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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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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
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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>
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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
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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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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
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