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IN GAZA, IT HAS BECOME A FIGHT OF BREAD VERSUS BOMBS | OPINION

Published Apr 04, 2024 at 9:39 AM EDT Updated Apr 04, 2024 at 11:24 AM EDT

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Any hint of discord between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu in recent weeks has been quickly smoothed over. Within hours
of allowing a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire and the
release of hostages in Gaza, White House advisors promptly dismissed the notion
of a policy shift. To drive the point home, the administration greenlit the
transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel.

While the administration continues to speak forcefully about the humanitarian
situation in Gaza, it also continues to provide the very bombs responsible for
burying civilians in rubble and hindering aid delivery. These are not defensive
systems like the Iron Dome; rather, they are bombs that blast through hospitals
and civilian infrastructure. This policy must change.



This is even more urgent following the killing of seven World Central Kitchen
(WCK) aid workers just this week. Despite traveling in a "deconflicted zone" and
displaying the WCK logo on the roof of their vehicles, the workers were targeted
with an Israeli strike after delivering aid brought via the maritime route to a
warehouse.


Palestinians stand next to a vehicle in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza
Strip, on April 2, where employees from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) were
killed in an Israeli airstrike. Palestinians stand next to a vehicle in Deir
Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 2, where employees from the World
Central Kitchen (WCK) were killed in an Israeli airstrike. YASSER QUDIHE/Middle
East Images/AFP via Getty Images

In this complex situation, we must recognize multiple truths: Israel has the
right to protect its citizens and to pursue terrorists, hostages must be freed,
and the people of Gaza shouldn't suffer for the actions of Hamas terrorists.
Finally, mass starvation of the civilian population in Gaza cannot be justified
in any moral or strategic sense and, yet is the inevitable outcome of the
current path.

According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification analysis,
famine is imminent as 1.1 million people in Gaza face catastrophic food
insecurity. More than 32,000 Palestinians are dead, many at the hands of
American-manufactured bombs dropped in highly populated civilian areas.
Netanyahu has systematically denied food, water, and medical care by limiting
the number of border crossings and repeatedly attacking aid workers and food
convoys.


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Humanitarian groups and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have
vehemently protested excessively burdensome inspection procedures since the
conflict started. Trucks that have one single item—whether it be scissors, tent
poles, or other unclearly characterized "dual use" items—are ordered to return
to the end of the line and start the inspection process from scratch. The
process has been so slow that Gen. Michael "Erik" Kurilla, commander of U.S.
Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month
that during a recent visit to the region, he saw 2,500 aid trucks held up
outside the gates, awaiting clearance to bring supplies to Gaza.

To put it simply, the Palestinian people are starving, with food literally lying
on their doorstep.


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While the United States has taken some steps to provide aid to the people of
Gaza—initiating air drops of aid in early March and announcing the construction
of a floating pier off the Gazan coast during Biden's State of the Union
address—efforts have fallen short.

Airdrops are largely symbolic, expensive, and easily diverted. A seaport could
eventually get supplies to the shore, but there is no safe way to deliver them,
as we have tragically seen this week. Food will be piled up at the land border
and now on the beach.



As efforts continue to increase the flow of aid, the last thing that this war
needs is more offensive weaponry. The Biden administration has recently
expressed confidence in their ability to persuade Israelis to postpone an
offensive in Rafah until May—just in time for the new American bombs to arrive.

Tom Hart is president and CEO of InterAction, the largest U.S.-based alliance of
international NGOs and partners. InterAction's Members are development,
humanitarian, and sector-supporting organizations that work in almost every
country and manage more than $15 billion in programs worldwide.

The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.


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