Gazans are Starving Because of Israel's US-Backed Genocide and Aid Blockade
US taxpayer money is enabling genocide and mass starvation, so every American should be furious and ashamed.
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Israel is inflicting a genocide on Gazans. They have been carrying it out with bombs, gunshots, and drones. They have targeted buildings and infrastructure, schools, and hospitals. They have targeted doctors and nurses, journalists, medics, and aid workers. They have been blocking aid into Gaza since March of this year (of course, the blockade goes back much longer, this is just the latest phase) and starving the population. They have murdered starving people at aid distribution sites run by a U.S./Israeli backed mercenary organization called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. There are even reports of people having been gassed. The death toll is thought to be in the hundreds of thousands. More than 50,000 children have been killed or injured since October 2023. British surgeon Dr. Nick Maynard has described children and teenagers showing up with a “clear pattern of injuries” that suggests that specific body parts were targeted on different days. Children have arrived in clusters with abdominal, head, neck, arm/leg, or testicular gunshot wounds. (Testicular!)
The malnutrition situation is absolutely dire. Here is a sampling of posts:
Even more horrific is that UNWRA aid is being blocked from entering, as seen in this post from +972 Magazine:
Yet if you look on the homepages of major media publications, you won’t see these facts mentioned. A group of people is being exterminated on livestream, and it doesn’t show up on these outlets’ homepages.
It’s not an accident that the media isn’t covering this. There’s pervasive media bias against voices that are critical of Israel or that are pro-Palestinian and bias in favor of pro-Israel voices. There’s also rampant Islamophobia in the United States.
Journalist Adam Johnson took a closer look at the New York Times’s coverage of the developments in Gaza versus the recent manufactured “globalize the intifada” story regarding New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. He found that the Times covered the former 29 times and the latter 32. So, coverage of some phrase that Mamdani never even uttered is more frequent that that of a genocide.
Relevant to Israel, the most recent action our elected officials have taken involved an amendment to block U.S. aid to Israel for missile defense. Republican Georgia House Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the sponsor, could get only five of her colleagues to agree with her. While any stoppage of military funding to Israel would be good, what’s needed is a full arms embargo on Israel as well as the U.S. to broker a ceasefire and force Israel to let in urgently needed aid to save people who are on the brink of death.
It’s true that U.S. society is full of domestic problems, and Americans notoriously care less about foreign policy than they should (as Pew Research put it in 2024, “foreign policy generally takes the backset to domestic policy for most Americans”)—even as American support for Israeli military action in Gaza has reached a new low. We’ve got ICE terror and kidnappings, the destruction of important government agencies and services, massive cuts to social safety nets, and what could be a coverup related to the Epstein case, just to name a few. But the genocide in Gaza remains an issue that all Americans should care about. It’s absolutely shameful that our country is enabling this genocide and that this story is buried underneath other news when so many people have been killed and injured and are on the verge of death by starvation.