Last month, a displaced Palestinian in Gaza, Yousef al-Ajouri, told Middle East Eye that trying to collect food for his family could be compared to the TV show Squid Game, in which killing was entertainment.
Israeli troops have admitted to deliberately shooting and murdering unarmed Palestinians waiting for aid in the Gaza Strip, following direct orders from their superiors.
‘They’re not animals, they’re human beings’
Last week, Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), called the mass starvation in Gaza ‘constructed and deliberate’.
In a statement, he said that GHF’s flawed distribution system is not designed to address the humanitarian crisis.
‘It’s serving military and political objectives. It’s cruel as it takes more lives than it saves lives. Israel controls all aspects of humanitarian access, whether outside or within Gaza.’
He also said that airdrops – which Israel had approved – were ‘the most expensive and inefficient way to deliver aid’.
‘It is a distraction to the inaction,’ he added.
In Monday’s podcast, Aguilar condemned what he called the dehumanisation of Palestinians.
‘What I want to say to the American people and to the people of Israel is that I’ve been there, I’ve touched them, I’ve talked to them. These civilians in Gaza that are getting the food, they’re starving. They’re not animals, they’re human beings, and they’re being treated like animals. We treat these civilians in Gaza worse, with less dignity, than we treated the ISIS fighters that surrendered in Baghouz in Syria.’
