Israel is using mass starvation as a weapon to drive people out of Gaza. This shocking war crime is occurring with the full complicity of the US.
Up to October 7th, over 500 trucks a day entered Gaza. But the Israelis have deliberately slowed the supply of humanitarian aid to a trickle.
They spun a story, without a shred of evidence, to cut off aid to UNRWA, the main humanitarian agency in Gaza. Ever since the US has cut off funding to the agency.
The Israelis also use the pretext of searches on trucks to slow down the provision of food. When an aid convoy finally got through to Northern Gaza, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on starving Palestinians desperate for food – killing over one hundred.
The aim is to re-populate Gaza with Israeli settlers. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has said that “We must promote a solution to encourage the emigration of the residents of Gaza”
The US has been supporting Israel to the hilt. It is their watchdog in the region. It sends over €3 billion in military aid to Israel each year and has been supplying them with bunker-buster bombs. Each warhead weighs over 900 kilograms. In December the US supplied Israel with one hundred of these bombs.
The Wall Street Journal reports that since the start of the war, the US has supplied 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells to Israel.
The least we can do is tell the Irish government and all political parties that they should not attend the Shamrock Fest in Washington on St Patrick’s Day.
If any party made this tiny gesture, it would ricochet around the world as, finally, an EU-based country was doing something rather than just talking sympathy.
Leo Varadkar, Michelle O’Neill, and Mary Lou McDonald all say they are going. They should be told to think again.