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.
âTheyâre not animals, theyâre human beingsâ
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 âconstructed and deliberateâ.
In a statement, he said that GHFâs flawed distribution system is not designed to address the humanitarian crisis.
âItâs serving military and political objectives. Itâs cruel as it takes more lives than it saves lives. Israel controls all aspects of humanitarian access, whether outside or within Gaza.â
He also said that airdrops â which Israel had approved â were âthe most expensive and inefficient way to deliver aidâ.
âIt is a distraction to the inaction,â he added.
In Mondayâs podcast, Aguilar condemned what he called the dehumanisation of Palestinians.
âWhat I want to say to the American people and to the people of Israel is that Iâve been there, Iâve touched them, Iâve talked to them. These civilians in Gaza that are getting the food, theyâre starving. Theyâre not animals, theyâre human beings, and theyâre 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.â
