Bunk Moreland

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Nothing has entered Gaza for more than 50 days. Charity kitchens are warning they are only days away from shuttering services. Two million people on the brink. We are currently witnessing Israel’s solution to the Gaza question—an unmistakable humanitarian crisis engineered by the Israeli government to remove from its borders an entire people it has deemed the equivalent of locusts.

"No one cares about us," stated an emaciated man in the ruins of Gaza this week. Women and children with pots outstretched beg for crumbs. Families survive on one meal a day. Trash, sewage, and disease overwhelm the 25-mile long Gaza strip. “The scene we come across every morning, hundreds of people queue for long hours, waiting with empty pots and pans, clamoring to get food for their families back in tents or displacement sites,” reported Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud on Tuesday. “Many of them are scouring piles of garbage to get trash to start fires in order to cook or to keep family members warm during the nighttime.”

“Utter desperation” read the headlines out of Gaza this week. “Civilians are being attacked in incessant military violence,” reported Gavin Kelleher with the Norwegian Refugee Council. “People are selling their belongings, they're selling their clothes to get access to cash to get food. People are trying to sell diapers for a bag of lentils. Begging is overwhelming at this point.” Nothing is getting through. One of the great famines of the 21st century is happening before our eyes in real time. The bombings continue unabated. Since March, nearly 600 children have been killed in the Gaza region. Another 1,600 wounded have been sent to hospitals where medical supplies are running thin with no relief on the way.

On Tuesday, at least 10 human beings were wiped from this earth in a center housing displaced families. On Wednesday, Israeli airstrikes destroyed a school and hospital in Gaza claiming the lives of 39 people. “Are these terrorists?” screamed a distraught man standing over a dead body in the aftermath. “Are these the ones threatening you, Netanyahu? Are these the ones shooting rockets?” In response to the killings, the Israeli military argues it is targeting “militants.”

Israel’s own allies in Europe are horrified by the conditions. In a joint statement released Wednesday, leaders in France, Germany, and Britain urged the Israeli government to lift its nearly two-month long blockade that has created “intolerable” conditions on the ground. France’s President Emmanuel Macron has been particularly outspoken in recent weeks, telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the suffering “must end.” The international outpouring of condemnation has done little to sway Israeli politicians, who seem intent on rooting out the more than two million people who call the Gaza strip home.

President Donald Trump, who is arguably in the strongest position to affect change in the region, has offered essentially no support to the Palestinian people. In March, Trump posted an AI-generated video of a revamped Gaza that featured gold statues in his image. The video’s creator called the edit a “political satire” and was as surprised as many Israeli critics on the right when Trump enthusiastically shared the edit. In April, Trump called for a U.S.-led “Peace Force” to establish a “Freedom Zone” in the Strip. For a man who campaigned on ending forever wars, especially in the Middle East, the comments rang eerily reminiscent of the “Freedom Fries” era that came to define the GOP of old that Trump has allegedly toppled.

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