Owen Jones: Starvation may prove to be Israel’s deadliest crime

Yezen Al-Kfarna, a 10 year old Palestinian boy who suffers malnourishment due to the ongoing Israeli blockadeAfter six months of slaughter and destruction – all with the complicity of our governments, with the notable exception of Scotland – it is worth taking stock of what may prove the deadliest facet of this historic crime.

According to the Integrated Food Security and Nutrition Phase Classification report two weeks ago, between now and mid-July, more than 1.1 million Palestinians will be classed as having “catastrophic” levels of hunger, with 876,000 classed as being in emergency, with the rest in “crisis” or “stress”.

Given that Israel’s defence minister Yoav Gallant declared at the start that there would be a total siege imposed on all life’s essentials – on the grounds Israel was fighting “human animals” – this is hardly difficult to prove. The Israeli Defence Forces are deliberately targeting police officers tasked with guarding such aid, despite protestations from the US administration. Meanwhile, UNRWA, the main humanitarian agency, has been targeted by an incessant and unevidenced Israeli smear campaign, causing multiple donor states to cut off funds, while Israel bans its personnel from giving aid to the most catastrophically devastated north.

This week, the court issued new orders to increase humanitarian aid. It will be ignored. This is what impunity does. Israel knows it can get away with anything, because Western states will let it get away with it.

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