TOPICS: HAMAS beheaded 40 babies • HAMAS Mass Rapes • HAMAS started this on Oct 7 • HAMAS wants to “kill all Jews” • Israel’s “Humanitarian Efforts” for Gaza • Israel minimizes number of pre-Oct 7 aid trucks to distract from current trickle • Palestinians are “lying about the numbers” • UNRWA staff and October 7
It should go without saying that, with life in the border town of Rafah already an experience of failed ‘shelter’ in tents fashioned from plastic sheets, almost no water or access to medical services, and people subsisting on a few pieces of bread a day, that there is no way to conduct any “evacuation” that would merit being described as “humanitarian.”
The United States announced that it had cut off aid to UNRWA immediately following the International Court of Justice’s ruling in South Africa’s genocide case but the United States—along with every other country in the world—has not taken even a single action against Israel, the party violating the Genocide Convention!
Today, on 9 January 2024, COGAT turned up the dial on its gaslighting stove to the very highest setting. Knowing that all the aid Israel has permitted to enter has averaged 76 trucks a day since October 7th, COGAT’s social media team cooked up a 1-minute video featuring spokeswoman Shani Sasson, introduced with the obviously false claim that, “Before the war, an average of 70 food trucks entered Gaza every day. The average last week was 109.”
Israel is conducting genocide by starvation. In mid-December, Israeli government and hasbara accounts began posting links to a new website from the IDF’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), “Operation Swords of Iron: Humanitarian Efforts“. The website offers updates about the humanitarian aid that Israel gives permission to enter Gaza after an intentional, complicated ‘inspection’ process.
“Operation Swords of Iron”—Israel’s “response” to HAMAS’s attack—has seen Israel directly indiscriminately bombing and otherwise targeting Palestinian civilians, leaving at the end of the year over 22,000 dead, over 61,000 wounded, and 1.9 million homeless.
