Article shared by Angela Raven-Roberts More on the uses of food and blockades etc. An important read but the GHF militarization plan cannot be depicted as "humanitarian". Angela Click here for the original article Summary Alex de Waal, a leading famine expert, critiques Israel’s strategy of using food as a weapon in Gaza, comparing it to colonial counter-insurgency tactics. Drawing parallels with Britain’s “Operation Starvation” in 1950s Malaya, he argues that Israel’s modern variant—combining blockade, surveillance, and algorithmic targeting—pushes the concept into the digital age. The newly proposed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is a selective, militarised aid system meant to bypass traditional UN channels and deny aid to Hamas operatives. De Waal warns that the approach is logistically inadequate, morally dubious, and lacks a viable political solution, potentially leading to mass starvation and long-term consequences for both Gaza and Israel. Quotes “Israel has taken...
Written by and for the former staff of UNICEF