The brutal flaw in Israel’s starvation plan

The brutal flaw in Israel’s starvation plan

“No one in the world will allow us to starve two million people,” said Israeli finance minister Belazel Smotrich last year. But 70 days ago, Israel imposed a total blockade on the Gaza strip, testing the world’s tolerance for man-made starvation. When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reluctantly allowed 100 trucks carrying aid into Gaza this week, Right-wing members of the Knesset were furious. “Letting humanitarian aid in now directly harms the

Starvation of Gaza a continuation of a decades-old plan

Israel’s plan to push out all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip has been contemplated as long back as 1967, soon after the Six-Day War ended.