Aid is being utterly weaponised, and the result is chaos

Israel has sunk to a new low in Gaza, writes Karol Balfe, CEO of ActionAid Ireland

A worker unloads cargo from a truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip at the offload area of the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gazaon May 22. Just kilometres away from the suffering, over 9,000 trucks are desperate to get in across the border. Photo: AP/Leo Correa

It’s difficult to imagine things getting worse, but at every turn they do. Israel has inflicted a brutal and inhuman campaign against the people of Gaza, the charge of genocide laid bare. A population deliberately and cruelly starved by an occupying power hell bent on death and destruction.

Since March 2, Israel enforced a near-total siege on the Gaza Strip, cutting off food, water, electricity, fuel, and medicine. The resulting humanitarian catastrophe shocked the world with the inevitability of famine becoming reality.