Whenever Israel yields to international pressure and allows aid trucks into Gaza, it devises other methods to ensure that food is never delivered. On the same day, July 26, Israel announced airdrops and “humanitarian corridors” for UN convoys, its forces murdered 53 humans seeking aid in those corridors. Aid distribution points, rather than feeding the starving population, Israel turns them into killing zones. Time and again, since December 2023, Palestinians have been paying with blood for a loaf of bread or a bottle of water.

In less than two months, death by Israeli bullets at the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has reached over 1,054, averaging about 20 murders daily. Since July 26 when Israel announced the new “humanitarian (death) corridors,” the murder toll has more than doubled compared to those killed daily at GHF distribution centers, 325 last week alone. Meanwhile, the tokenistic airdrops by Arab collaborators are nothing short of a disgrace.

The $60 million Donald Trump brags about giving to GHF is nothing but blood money funding the deaths of hungry Palestinians. For the starved, GHF stands for Gaza Humiliation Front, not a lifeline, but an Israeli murder-line. Instead of wasting American taxpayer money on GHF death traps, Trump should consider restoring U.S. funding to UNRWA, the only agency that has offered real hope to Palestinian children for more than 75 years.

Steve Witkoff’s visit to a GHF center in Gaza, followed by his statement that there is no starvation, was a textbook case of confirmation bias. His tour did not show the absence of starvation, but rather his willful blindness not to see. Witkoff sought out information that would reinforce his predetermined narrative to whitewash starvation.

To be sure, no one had seriously expected him to witness starvation at a carefully staged (safe) site, far removed from the people. He was invited to a hospital, to see the emaciated children, and hear directly from the life-saving medical professionals. Instead, he chose a photo op and listen to the mercenaries of death at GHF.

The engineered starving in Gaza, supported by the U.S., has always been a central pillar of Israel’s psychological warfare; a calculated strategy........

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