#aid blockade

[trash-panda-kitty]

Humanitarian aid is being reclassified as political interference.

Not just in the U.S.

Not just in Gaza.

Not just in Europe.

Across entire regions.

Governments are treating aid as something that must be

controlled

delayed

or withdrawn when it complicates power.

This isn’t about humanitarian aid.

It’s about leverage.

When aid becomes conditional, survival stops being a right and starts being a negotiation.

Food, medicine, and civilian life become tools.

And once that logic takes hold, harm doesn’t need to be justified.

It just needs to be processed.

From Aid to Leverage: How Power Is Turning Humanitarian Aid Into Political Interference

Why Governments Are Reframing Aid as an Enemy Actor

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[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

On the one hand, cutting off aid transmission into Gaza doesn’t appear to have helped and has caused many international people to call what’s happening in Gaza a genocide (including several people who said they were supporters of Israel’s actions up until that point!), and I think (from my non-expert, non-Israeli point of view) that probably Israel should pull back, allow aid in, and say “you have until x date to release the hostages, or else we’re coming back in”

On the other hand, I can remember back when Israel and its spokespeople were like “here’s all the aid we let in just sitting there on the other side of the border, and here’s video proof of what look like Hamas people hijacking a truck, at this point it’s out of our hands” and the common reaction was still that Israel was intentionally restricting aid to Gaza.

(On the other other hand, I distinctly remember during this period a lot of Gazans and aid workers getting killed when they went near places where food and other aid were being distributed, so it wasn’t like the IDF was totally innocent in making it difficult to get aid to where it needed to go)

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

[tearsofrefugees]

The Guardian view on Israel’s aid blockade of Gaza: hunger as a weapon of war | Editorial

Editorial: Conditions are increasingly desperate. The resumption of humanitarian relief is essential to save civilian lives

[1000-year-old-virgin]

As of today only 14 out of the 36 hospitals in Gaza are partially operating and if you want to help people there are legit non-profit organizations like OXFAM Canada that you can donate to. This non-profit charity was one of the only organizations able to get aid in during Israel's aid blockade and they also have a comprehensive ceasefire plan in place to make sure your money is actually going to the proper sources.

I don't care how many moral police on here want to trash me/you for being cautious with your money when it comes to anyone on this site asking for it. Because they aren't the ones working overtime to earn this hard earned money, they don't pay our bills, and I don't know you in real life so fuck your judgement.

I donate to legit sources and not to random accounts on social media asking for money

PS. Don't forget about the Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Ukraine, and Ethiopia

[kokchapress]

The death toll from Israel’s attacks on Gaza has reached 63,633, with 76 killed and 281 injured in the last 24 hours. Israel’s blockade has also caused 13 more deaths from starvation, bringing the total famine-related deaths to 361. #GazaUnderAttack #Israel #HumanitarianCrisis #GazaGenocide #StopTheWar 💔🚑🌍

Death Toll in Israel’s Attacks on Gaza Rises to 63,633