Gaza, I write this in total Despair!

I write this in total despair. I don’t generally write articles. I’m an editor. I let others speak through my website, Countercurrents.org. Only when no one else is standing up, I step in. This is such a moment. I can’t help but write. Nobody is bothered about the massacre of the starving people of Gaza. Everyone’s gaze has now turned towards the exchange of fire between Israel and Iran. Nobody is talking about the massacre of the starving people of Gaza. There is not a word in the newspaper I read. 

Israel enforced a complete blockade of Gaza at the lapse of the ceasefire on March 2, 2025. From then on, the food stock in Gaza was depleting. The UN was warning of the deteriorating food stock in Gaza. After global outcry against the starving of the people of Gaza, Israel found a devious device to give aid to Gaza. Enter Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an agency backed by the Israeli government and the Trump administration.  They began aid distribution May 26, 2025 when almost all of the people of Gaza were starving. 

I edit the website Countercurrents.org. Every day, after I publish all the articles, I send out a Newsletter with all the day’s articles to subscribed readers. I choose the day’s main development as the subject line or headline of the newsletter. The following are the headlines of CC Newsletters after GHF aid distribution began in Gaza. 

28 May- Everything You Need to Know About the Gaza Aid Massacre at a US-Israeli Distribution Point

29 May- Israeli troops massacre 10 aid-seekers in two days

30 May- Israel Blocking UN from Delivering Aid to Starving Gazans, Says Spokesperson

31 May- United Nations warns Gaza is the “hungriest place on earth”

01 June- At least 31 Starving Palestinians killed  

02 June- At Least 52 Starving Aid Seekers Killed in Gaza

03 June- Another Witkoff Massacre, 27 killed today, 102 death so far, UN calls for investigation

 04 June- Israeli forces kill, injure over 600 Palestinians at aid distribution centres in one week

08 June- Dozens of Starved Civilians Killed or Injured in Israeli Attacks Near Gaza Aid Centers

 10 June- 20 Starved Civilians Killed at ‘Aid Point’ as Massacres Continue in Israeli-US GHF Operations

11 June- 31 Starving People Killed in GHF Aid Distribution Point In Gaza

12 June- Only 700 Aid Trucks Entered Gaza in Three Weeks, Equal to One Day of Ceasefire Deliveries

15 June- Gaza: Israeli Forces Kill at Least Eleven Starving Civilians

17 June- 59 Starving Aid Seekers Killed While Waiting for Food in Gaza

18 June- At Least 11 Starving Civilians Killed by Israeli Forces While Waiting for Food near US-Backed Aid Sites

19 June- 22 Aid Seekers Killed by Israeli Forces While Waiting for Food in Gaza

So far, at least 400 people seeking aid have been killed and over 2000 injured. 

Most days, the main article is the killing of starving Gazans by the Israeli military and the American military contractors handling the aid distribution. Almost every day, there is a massacre. So much so that it has not become news for most mainstream media. I wonder how much awareness there is of this daily massacre of desperately starving people of Gaza? It has become so repetitive that it is no news!

Israel’s strategy is intelligent. Like a flame in the darkness that attracts insects to it, burn them to death, they attract the starving Gazans towards them and massacre them daily. GHF operates only four main distribution centres: three in Rafah (in areas under Israeli evacuation orders) and one near Gaza City, close to Deir el-Balah. No distribution points are located north of the Netzarim Corridor, leaving about one million people in northern Gaza without access to GHF aid. The model requires civilians to travel long distances, often tens of kilometres, to reach the sites, which has been especially difficult for vulnerable populations such as the elderly, widows, and children.

The UN aid agencies refused to take part in this genocidal aid distribution. Israel and USA are not allowing UN to distribute aid to the starving population of Gaza. Israel, which was formed by a UN General Assembly vote on 29 November 1947, Resolution 181, by a slim majority by blackmailing and bribing a few nations to vote in their favour, now gives two hoots to the UN. 

Chris Hedges, one of the few journalists who cares about Gaza, writes in his article “The Last Days of Gaza” that Israel’s ploy is to collect all the Gazans into a small parcel of land in Southern Gaza and drive them into Egyptian Sinai. 

I think this may be the ploy. They are not delivering aid in Northern Gaza. The aim is to force about one million people living in Northern Gaza to congregate in the aid distribution centres and then drive them away to Egypt. Another Nakba?

I am not going to predict anything. My only plea to the world is don’t forget the starving people of Gaza, who are being massacred by the Israeli military and American military contractors on a daily basis. Raise your voice in whichever way you can. That is the least thing that we can do. 

Binu Mathew is the Editor of Countercurrents.org. He can be reached at [email protected]