The UN aid system for Gaza was safe and dignified. Today we’re humiliated or hurt by those tasked with helping us
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welve-year-old Ahmad Zeidan’s mother was shot and killed in front of him as she tried to secure food for her starving family at one of Gaza’s new US-backed distribution points. He lay beside her body for hours, afraid to stand up and run because any movement might cause his death.
His mother’s death was one of many over the past few days at the hands of Israeli forces on the way to or at facilities operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). On Sunday 1 June, more than 30 were killed. On Monday 2 June, three were killed. On Tuesday 3 June, 27 were killed. Sunday 8 June, four killed. Tuesday 10 June, 17 killed. On Wednesday 11 June, 60 people were reported killed.
In Gaza, hunger has been used as a weapon of war since the beginning of the genocide to weaken and control us. When the US humanitarian aid started to prepare distribution points to provide food supplies to people in Gaza, they offered a glimmer of hope that this hunger would finally be relieved. Now there is no hope. These aid points have become death traps. I’m darkly reminded of the Red Light, Green Light episode of Squid Game, except no one in Gaza wins.
