21 May 2025 – After more than 19 months of a brutal invasion, the patience of some of Israel’s Western allies appears to be running out. The renewed offensive on the Gaza Strip launched by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has provoked widespread anger and revulsion, as governments and humanitarian organizations point to the desperate conditions in the embattled territory. Dozens of Gazans have been killed by Israeli bombardments in recent days, while tens of thousands have been yet again forced to flee within a besieged enclave bereft of shelter and basic infrastructure.
Turning into a Global Pariah Israel Starves and Destroys Gaza
PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE, 26 May 2025
Ishaan Tharoor | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service
Demonstrators gather Sunday, 18 May, in The Hague, Netherlands, calling for action from policymakers on Israel. (Phil Nijhuis/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
Since the collapse of a brief ceasefire, Israel has impeded the passage of food and humanitarian goods into the territory. The unrelenting blockade has put more than 2 million people at critical risk of famine, my colleagues report.
In Brussels, the European Union announced it would begin a formal review of its trade accord with Israel, a move backed by what Kaja Kallas, the E.U.’s top diplomat, said was a “huge majority” of the 27-member bloc’s foreign ministers. Britain, too, suspended ongoing free trade talks with Israel and levied sanctions on a number of figures associated with Israel’s pro-settler far right.
On Monday [19 May], a joint statement from the leaders of Britain, France and Canada said “the level of human suffering in Gaza is intolerable” and threatened Israel with punitive measures if it didn’t relent from its campaign against the remnants of militant group Hamas. Israel’s war — triggered by Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel and abduction of hundreds of hostages — has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the local Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children.
“We will not stand by while the Netanyahu Government pursues these egregious actions,” the joint statement said. “If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response.”
Facing pressure, Netanyahu’s government signaled that it would allow “minimal” aid into Gaza, though U.N. officials on Tuesday stressed that the urgent need was exponentially greater than what Israel seemed willing to permit. Netanyahu, meanwhile, appears compelled to placate his allies in the Israeli far right, who openly call for the destruction and ethnic cleansing of Gaza and oppose allowing humanitarian relief to enter the territory.
In a video uploaded to social media Monday, Netanyahu explained his decision to let a paltry amount of aid into Gaza was one of optics, saying the Israeli campaign in Gaza “cannot reach a point of starvation, for practical and diplomatic reasons.” The prime minister faces an ongoing investigation for war crimes at the International Criminal Court due in part to Israel’s record of denying vital food aid to Gaza. (Netanyahu has rejected the charges.)
Israeli officials insist that the current calls for restraint play into Hamas’s hands. A spokesman for Israel’s foreign ministry, Oren Marmorstein, said Kallas’s remarks reflected “a total misunderstanding of the complex reality Israel is facing.”
“Ignoring these realities and criticising Israel only hardens Hamas’s position and encourages Hamas to stick to its guns,” he wrote on X.
Tags: Crimes against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, Famine, Gaza, Genocide, Hunger, Israel, Massacre, Netanyahu, Palestine, Rogue states, War crimes
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