Israel will die from the Palestinians in Gaza while its renewed bombing kills hundreds, including many children.
Israel has repeatedly used international food and humanitarian aid as a collective pressure tool against the Palestinians for 17 months of his devastating war against the Gaza Strip.
Civilians in the enclave have been subjected to extreme food shortages and famine conditions throughout the war. Dozens of children died of famine and countless others have succumbed to injuries or preventable diseases during a deterioration of the artificial humanitarian disaster.
The Israeli authorities are hungry for the Palestinians in the besieged enclave, which shelters 2.3 million people, after blocked the entry of humanitarian aid desperately necessary at the beginning of March. And on March 18, Israel unilaterally broke a ceasefire held since January, relaunching the attacks across Gaza and killing hundreds of other Palestinians.
The combination of bombs and the debilitating humanitarian situation quickly aggravates the conditions for the inhabitants of Gaza, but it has been constant since the start of the war in October 2023. Here is a more in -depth examination of the way in which Israel used the aid to punish Gaza:
October 2023
- October 9: Israel announces a “total blockade” on the Gaza strip, interrupting the entrance to all food, water, medicines, fuel and electricity.
The Minister of Defense then, Yoav Gallant, promises an action against “human animals” and orders a “complete seat”.
Thirteen months later, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Gallant and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to include “famine war crime as a method of war”.
- October 21: The first aid truck enters Gaza via a land route from Egypt while the Israeli army continues with two weeks of fatal bombing.
The Israeli army ultimately allows an extremely limited number of aid trucks to enter the enclave after international pressure.
November 2023
- November 24: A temporary truce is reached between Israel and Hamas, allowing a slight increase in humanitarian aid entering Gaza.
The United Nations and international aid agencies indicate that the amount of aid entering Gaza is very inadequate to meet the needs of the population, most of whom are children.
The temporary cessation of attacks allows several exchanges of limited captives held in Gaza and the Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, but there is no promise for the end of the war or for the return of the Palestinians forced to leave their homes following the fighting.
The Truce of Gaza then ended a week after its start, and the implacable Israeli attacks restart, killing more civilians, journalists, humanitarian workers and doctors as well as Hamas figures.
February 2024
- February 29: Israel kills at least 112 Palestinians and hurts more than 750 when she opens fire to the Palestinians while waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City in what is called “flour massacre”.
The Israeli army proceeds to many similar attacks against convoys of vital aid, often claiming that “terrorists” are targeted but without providing evidence.
The United Nations and other international agencies and humanitarian workers report on several occasions that the Israeli authorities intentionally block numerous aid trucks intended to enter the enclave.
Israeli attacks as well as blocked aid and disastrous conditions created by Israeli soil offensives and destruction through Gaza also lead to attacked and caught aid convoys.
The far -right Israelis many times also attack the convoys of help or try to prevent them from entering Gaza.
April 2024
- April 1: Israeli drone strikes target a help convoy with the World Central Kitchen (WCK), killing six international workers and a Palestinian driver.
The WCK is forced to stop its humanitarian operations, similar to many other international aid organizations which temporarily or definitively help their help to the Palestinians.
An investigation by the verification agency of Sanad d’Tel Aviv Tribune reveals that the three WCK vehicles were intentionally affected, adding to a record assessment of hundreds of Palestinian humanitarian workers killed since the start of the Israel War against Gaza.
October 2024
- October 6: The Israeli army begins a massive seat in the north of Gaza, designating the entire area of a combat area and issuing forced evacuation orders to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Headquarters to the north, accompanied by Israeli attacks in other parts of Gaza, lasts until a ceasefire with Hamas came into force on January 19, 2025.
The entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza is strongly limited by Israel throughout winter in the middle of low temperatures.
The ministers of the far-right Israeli government, heads of the Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, and the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, call for the blocking of all humanitarian aid and for a military occupation of Gaza, preferring this to the option of a cease-fire.
January 2025
- January 19: The implementation of the ceasefire allows an increase in humanitarian aid in Gaza, which, according to rescue organizations, should persist for a long time before life can return to any semblance of normality.
Israel allows more trucks to enter Gaza in the days that followed the entry into force of the truce, but the aid volume is much lower than what had been agreed in the cease-fire.
While babies die from the cold, the Israeli government prevents the entry of thousands of mobile houses intended to house displaced Palestinians as well as heavy equipment necessary to clean the rubble of houses and destroyed infrastructure.
March 2025
- March 2: For the second time since the start of the war, Israel has stopped the entrance to all humanitarian aid to Gaza, an order that is currently in force.
- March 10: Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), warns that another hunger crisis is looming in Gaza and accuses Israel of an illegal “weapons of humanitarian aid”.
- March 18: Israel puts an end to the ceasefire, and its soldiers lead one of the heaviest bombing campaigns in Gaza to date, killing more than 400 Palestinians and injuring more than 500, many children, the first day.
- March 25: The UN announces that it withdraws 30% of its international Gaza staff after an Israeli air strike on March 19, kills a member of the Bulgarian staff of the United Nations and seriously injures six other foreign workers.
