Jerusalem — Israel’s leadership has run a siege that starves civilians and treats law as a speed bump, a pattern rights investigators now call genocidal. On Oct. 22, the world court ordered UN-managed relief corridors and fuel flows, but ministers answered with defiance while pushing annexation bills that entrench dispossession and indulging settler violence across the West Bank. Children have borne the cruelty, malnutrition surging and clinics running dry, as documented in this children’s starvation emergency and a medical visa freeze that stranded the sick. From Az-Zawayda’s obliterated home to bread-line stampedes, the through-line is collective punishment dressed up as security. The real test now is whether court-ordered relief corridors actually move trucks, generators, and water-purification into place, because outcomes, not talking points, are the measure of accountability.

On the ground, aid workers describe a puzzle that still misses pieces. Inspection lanes open, then stall, fuel allocations appear, then shrink, families plan around rumor more than schedule. The mismatch between claims of facilitation and the reality of delays is visible in the stutter-step rhythm of convoys and the recurring shortages they leave behind. Our earlier field reporting traced this pattern during a brittle truce, aid throttled under a fragile pause that never rose to the level of predictable relief.

The stakes could not be plainer than in pediatrics. UNICEF’s weekend statement called the ceasefire “a vital chance for children, it must be seized.” Doctors in Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah describe treating edema that hides severe wasting and fighting........

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