While more rhetoric but barely any pressure is raised against the Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) and Israel using the distribution hubs as kill zones, the genocide in Gaza reflects an earlier trend of pinpointing violations into manageable disturbances. That way, Israel’s violence can remain unchecked and the genocide in Gaza becomes just as normalised as other international law violations were normalised earlier.

Israel has killed over 57,000 Palestinians in Gaza, and the majority of these individuals are not recognised except for statistical purposes. However, if mass graves are discovered, or as is happening more lately, Palestinians are killed while trying to access food, the international community issues warnings on the specific violations. The genocide itself, however, is normalised.

UN Secretary Antonio Guterres stated that aid operations in Gaza are “inherently unsafe”. Israel’s foreign ministry said........

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