Israel trying to deflect blame for widespread starvation in Gaza

[Celerity]

Officials and ministers either deny that Palestinians are being affected by hunger or say it is not Israel’s fault

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/25/israel-deflect-blame-starvation-gaza-hunger

https://archive.ph/MA09T



Israel is pursuing an extensive PR effort to remove itself from blame for the starvation and killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza in the face of overwhelming evidence that it is responsible. As dozens of governments, UN organisations and other international figures have detailed Israel’s culpability, officials and ministers in Israel have attempted to suggest that there is no hunger in Gaza, that if hunger exists it is not Israel’s fault, or to blame Hamas or the UN and aid organisations for problems with distribution of aid.

The Israeli effort has continued even as one of its own government ministers, the far-right heritage minister, Amichai Eliyahu, appeared to describe an unapologetic policy of starvation, genocide and ethnic cleansing that Israel has denied and said is not official policy.

Amid evidence of a growing number of deaths from starvation in Gaza, including many child deaths, and shocking images and accounts of malnutrition, Israel has tried to deflect blame for what has been described by the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) as “man-made mass starvation”.

That view was endorsed in a joint statement this week by 28 countries – including the UK – which explicitly blamed Israel. “The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths,” the statement said. “The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazan’s of human dignity. “We condemn the drip-feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food.”

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[vanessa_ca]

1. It's not going to work

Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir says PM Benjamin Netanyahu is “morally bankrupt” for ALLOWING aid into Gaza and demands the complete starvation of Palestinians.

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[vanessa_ca]

2. Israelis trying to block food trucks from going to Gaza.

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[Mosby]

4. Khalissee is a Pakistani British woman who hates Jews.

Nt.

[vanessa_ca]

5. Even if true, that has what to do with Israelis blocking the food aid trucks?

Makes it not be happening or something?

[Mosby]

7. Your using X as proof of something?

Lol.

[vanessa_ca]

9. Lol right backatcha for your pathetic attempt to distract from the callousness of Israelis blocking aid. -eom

[Mosby]

10. Im blocking you.

[vanessa_ca]

11. Thank you -eom

[Mosby]

12. Is there a specific reason why you can't be respectful?

right backatcha for your pathetic attempt to distract from the callousness of Israelis blocking aid. -eom

Why would you say this to another DU member?

[David__77]

6. Interesting that you note the poster's Pakistani heritage.

[Mosby]

8. Not really interesting, she claims to be someone else on X. Thought that was qorth mentioning.

[LexVegas]

14. There is no antisemitism on the left. nt

[brush]

3. Good luck with that, war criminals. It's to late for PR to lie your way out of this.

The world has been watching this for a couple of years and knows what you've done.

[AloeVera]

13. Famine has arrived. Here is what denial and blame-shifting do

From the JEWISH American paper The Forward:

To pretend, at this late date, that Israel has not thoroughly laid the groundwork for this crisis — and ignore that Israeli officials have said, over and over, that they would refuse to feed the people of Gaza — is to do two things.

First, it is to waste time in a situation where there is no time to waste. Bodies are shutting down from hunger now. The food scarcity in Gaza poses a particular threat to children, and they are dying. They do not have the luxury of waiting for policymakers and pundits to have this bad faith argument.

Second, it is to provide the rest of us, who do have time, with the luxury of an alternate reality that bears little relationship to the actual facts on the ground. We should not pretend that aid airdrops, which aid agencies have written off as an insufficient distraction and no substitute for letting aid in via trucks, are an answer to or reversal of this problem. And Israel’s newly announced policy of daily humanitarian pauses may sound good, but constitutes, per U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher, a “drop in the ocean” compared to the intense interventions that the situation requires.

Here, too, we can listen to Israeli officials’ own words: Netanyahu himself has described the amount of aid being allowed in to offset mass starvation as “minimal.”

A realm in which all this suffering is Hamas’ fault, and Israel is simply trying its best to conduct a just war, may be a comforting one. But unfortunately, it’s not where we actually live."

https://forward.com/opinion/758641/gaza-aid-israel-starvation/

Stop the denial, deniers. Saving your reputation - and your conscience, should you have one - is too late. Should examine your values and priorities too.