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Israel's STARVATION TACTICS and baiting of desperate Palestinians into traps using "food aid" echoes the horrors of Jewish ghettos
By ljdevon // 2025-06-04
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In the dust-choked ruins of Gaza, a mother kneels, her fingers clawing at the ground for scraps of flour — not to bake bread, but to keep her children alive one more day. This is not a scene from history’s darkest chapters but a deliberate, modern-day atrocity unfolding under the watch of the so-called "international community." There is no international community taking a stand against Israel's human rights violations. Israel’s blockade and systematic weaponization of food in Gaza mirror the calculated starvation tactics once deployed by the Nazis in Jewish ghettos, pushing Palestinians beyond the limits of human endurance. Israel is not defending itself. They are starving and exterminating innocent people! Key points:
  • Over 25% of Gazans are "one step away" from famine, with 500,000 facing catastrophic hunger, according to the UN.
  • Israel’s blockade restricts food to as little as 245 calories per day — less than a can of beans — while the WHO’s emergency minimum is 2,100 calories.
  • The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), backed by Israel and the U.S., operates as a "bureaucracy of starvation," rationing suffering rather than relief.
  • Historical parallel: Israel’s policies echo the Nazi "Hunger Plan," which deliberately starved millions in WWII, including Jews in ghettos.
  • Testimonies from Gaza reveal families eating leaves, sand-laced flour, and children begging for scraps while Israeli officials mock their suffering.

"Aid" as a weapon: The cruel deception of controlled starvation

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, marketed as a humanitarian solution, has become a grotesque farce. Its distribution sites — guarded by soldiers and drones — have become kill zones, where people are baited in and murdered. In February 2024, Israeli forces massacred 30 Palestinians and wounded 170 near an aid drop in Rafah. Israeli forces have turned desperation into a death trap. The foundation’s own director resigned over this, warning that their complicity in these evil schemes violates humanitarian principles. This is not aid — it is "aid-washing," a smokescreen for ethnic cleansing, he warned. The parallels to Nazi Germany are chilling. In 1941, Nazi officials rationed food by race, granting Jews 20% of the calories allotted to Germans. Today, Gaza’s entire population is forced into famine, with children and the elderly dying first. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared "not a grain of wheat" should enter Gaza, while UK Lawyers for Israel sneered that the war might "reduce obesity." Such statements expose the sadism at play: this is starvation as policy.

From blockade to genocide: How Israel engineered famine

For 17 years, Israel has suffocated Gaza under blockade, controlling every calorie that enters. A leaked 2008 document revealed Israel calculated the minimum food required to avoid outright malnutrition — keeping Gaza "on a diet." Now, that diet has become a death sentence. Northern Gaza, cut off entirely, survives on leaves and scavenged animal feed. A Palestinian man named Ali told Middle East Eye: "We stopped talking about ‘When will the war be over?’ and started asking, ‘When will the food arrive?’" Meanwhile, Israel blocks water purifiers, insulin and crutches under "dual-use" restrictions, ensuring disease completes what starvation starts.

The world’s silence is complicity

The UN warns Gaza is the only place on Earth where 100% of the population faces famine — yet Western leaders fund Israel’s war machine. The International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt its genocide, but the starvation continues. Doctors in Gaza, like those in the Warsaw Ghetto, document toddlers with sunken eyes and protruding ribs, knowing the world looks away. This is not collateral damage. It is genocide by famine, a crime against humanity that is etched in the blood of children who have no choice but to scrape flour from bomb craters. As a mother in Gaza wails into the rubble—"My kids will eat flour scraped from the floor"—history’s ghosts whisper: Never again is now. Sources include: MiddleEastEye.net MiddleEastEye.net MiddleEastEye.net
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