{"id":309436,"date":"2025-05-29T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=309436"},"modified":"2025-05-31T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:45:11","slug":"dehumanisation-by-design-us-israeli-gaza-aid-operation-descends-into-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=309436","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dehumanisation by design\u2019: US-Israeli Gaza aid operation descends into chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Displaced Palestinians crammed behind fences wait to receive food packages from a US-backed foundation pledging to distribute humanitarian aid in southern Gaza, on 27 May 2025 (Social media)<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Middle East Eye \u2013 May 27, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A controversial US-Israeli aid distribution scheme descended into chaos, as gunfire rang out while hungry and exhausted residents of Gaza rushed to get food after being forced to stand outside an aid facility.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/hunger-stronger-awareness-palestinians-received-limited-ghf-aid-despite-doubts\">journalists<\/a>\u00a0and eyewitnesses, the breakdown of order resulted from delays in security checks on the recipients, Middle East Eye <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/hunger-stronger-awareness-palestinians-received-limited-ghf-aid-despite-doubts\">reported<\/a> for an earlier article.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military denied firing on the crowds, but the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/live-blog\/live-blog-update\/associated-press-reports-tank-and-gunfire-gaza-distribution-site?nid=422779&amp;topic=Israel%2527s%2520war%2520on%2520Gaza&amp;fid=544983\">reported<\/a> tank and gunfire at the distribution site, possibly due to warning shots fired by American mercenaries securing the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, there were no official reports of deaths or injuries. However, according to Arabic media, three were killed and 46 were wounded when the Israeli army fired into the crowds of people rushing to retrieve food packages.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Israeli-American &#8220;aid&#8221; concentration camp collapses on its 1st day of operation<\/p>\n<p>US mercenaries ran away &amp; abandoned their positions as thousands of starved Gazans stormed the complex after being crowded like animals in a fenced cage all day, waiting for food<\/p>\n<p>IDF opened fire\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5PaR1zT7Ju\">pic.twitter.com\/5PaR1zT7Ju<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/muhammadshehad2\/status\/1927379708125012263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Gaza government media office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/hunger-stronger-awareness-palestinians-received-limited-ghf-aid-despite-doubts\">said<\/a>: \u201cToday\u2019s events are clear evidence of the occupation\u2019s failure to manage the humanitarian crisis it has deliberately created. Establishing ghettos for distributing limited aid is a deliberate policy aimed at sustaining starvation and dismantling society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organisation, established in February, has come under fierce criticism from United Nations officials, who had said its aid distribution plans, initiated by Israel and only involving private companies, would foster the displacement of Palestinians and more violence.<\/p>\n<p>Many online criticised the aid distribution and the way it was handled on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The choice Trump and Israel have imposed on the people in Gaza is die from starvation or be killed trying to get food.<br \/>\nThis is what famine and holocaust look like. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sVJhaNPfMy\">https:\/\/t.co\/sVJhaNPfMy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KlZzixfdO7\">pic.twitter.com\/KlZzixfdO7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ali (@MerruX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MerruX\/status\/1927380935881707635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As American mercenaries fled the scene, thousands of starving Palestinians overran the caged checkpoint, creating chaos in the area.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The &#8220;Gaza Humanitarian Foundation&#8221;, designed to supplant Hamas rule, began operations today.<\/p>\n<p>Starving Palestinians overran the caged checkpoint and took all supplies as American mercenaries fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The scam failed, at least for today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y1ZcNd9A7r\">pic.twitter.com\/Y1ZcNd9A7r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dancohen3000\/status\/1927388797211152430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the meantime, the head of the aid organisation, which said last week it was ready to start delivering food into Gaza, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/head-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-jake-wood-resignation-hours-before-launch\">resigned<\/a> on Monday, saying he did not believe it was possible for the organisation to operate independently or adhere to strict humanitarian principles.<\/p>\n<p>Many on social media were outraged by Israel\u2019s treatment of Palestinians, calling the aid distribution scheme \u201cevil and barbaric\u201d.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The way <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Israel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Israel<\/a> is treating the Palestinians in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gaza<\/a> starving and looking for food in their thousands is nothing short of barbaric and evil. It looks like the \u2018company\u2019 set up to distribute the tiny amounts of food has failed big way. The aid should be taken into Gaza in large\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SBosipJMll\">pic.twitter.com\/SBosipJMll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Professor Kamel Hawwash \u0628\u0631\u0648\u0641\u064a\u0633\u0648\u0631 \u0643\u0627\u0645\u0644 \u0625\u0633\u062d\u0642 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0648\u0627\u0634 (@kamelhawwash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kamelhawwash\/status\/1927377468932993369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/live-blog\/live-blog-update\/un-spokesman-calls-images-gaza-aid-stampede-heartbreaking\">said<\/a> the images of thousands of starving Palestinians in Gaza running for aid as they were met with Israeli gunfire were &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe and our partners have a detailed, principled, operationally sound plan supported by member states to get aid to a desperate population,\u201d Dujarric told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On social media, many shared an image of Palestinians stuck behind fences with the hope of getting aid. \u201cHistory won\u2019t forget who watched and did nothing,\u201d said one person on social media.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Starving Gazans packed behind fences for a scrap of aid. This isn\u2019t relief\u2014it\u2019s humiliation and dehumanization by design.<\/p>\n<p>History won\u2019t forget who watched and did nothing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cTZLG2OxBi\">pic.twitter.com\/cTZLG2OxBi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Etan Nechin (@Etanetan23) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Etanetan23\/status\/1927378387837862179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to a political analyst from Gaza, Muhammad Shehada, the contents of the aid packs were almost entirely Israeli products, and he said Israel is \u201cprofiting from\u201d this aid scheme.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\uf6a8Israel is profiting big time from its genocide: the meager aid packs a few Gazans received today were almost entirely Israeli products with visible Hebrew writing on<\/p>\n<p>So this shell Israeli-American mercenary group is helping Israel make some money from starving Gaza to death! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YSUsq311xk\">pic.twitter.com\/YSUsq311xk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/muhammadshehad2\/status\/1927384132692132130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over the last 80 days of Israel\u2019s blockade, hunger-related deaths among Palestinians have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/four-year-old-boy-dies-starvation-gaza-due-israeli-blockade\">climbed<\/a> to 58. In the same period, another 242 people, primarily children and elderly individuals, have lost their lives due to the lack of food and medical care.<\/p>\n<p>Since early March, Israel has effectively halted nearly all aid from reaching Gaza, pushing almost the entire population of 2.1 million Palestinians to the edge of famine, with no access to essential medicine or fuel.<\/p>\n<p>This worsening crisis has triggered growing international condemnation, even drawing rare and sharp criticism from Israel\u2019s key western allies, such as the UK, Canada, France and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, a four-year-old boy died in Gaza City from severe malnutrition caused by Israel&#8217;s total blockade of the strip.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/trending\/dehumanisation-design-us-israeli-gaza-aid-operation-descends-chaos\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Gaza government the collapse of the aid operation was \u201cclear evidence of the occupation\u2019s failure to manage the humanitarian crisis it has deliberately created. Establishing ghettos for distributing limited aid is a deliberate policy aimed at sustaining starvation and dismantling society\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":309437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309440,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309436\/revisions\/309440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/309437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}