As world focuses on Iran, Israel ‘engineering starvation policy’ in Gaza

As global attention fixates on Iran, a new report details how Israel's blockade of Gaza has weaponized logistics to create a humanitarian crisis. | Contesto: cronaca

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• As world focuses on Iran, Israel ‘engineering starvation policy’ in Gaza

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As international diplomatic efforts remain intensely focused on tensions with Iran, a stark and escalating humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Gaza, where a severe shortage of fuel, food, and medicine is piling misery on the Palestinian population. Analysts and aid agencies are increasingly describing the situation as a deliberate policy of engineered deprivation, where the control of basic logistical supplies has become a central feature of the ongoing conflict. The blockade, enforced by Israel, has effectively turned the flow of essential commodities into a strategic tool, creating conditions of widespread scarcity and suffering. The core of the crisis lies in what observers are calling the weaponization of logistics. By tightly restricting the entry of fuel, the functioning of Gaza's society has been systematically undermined. Hospitals struggle to keep generators running for life-saving equipment, water desalination and sanitation plants operate intermittently or not at all, and the transportation of what little aid does enter the territory is crippled. This creates a cascading effect: without fuel, food cannot be distributed, water cannot be purified, and medical services collapse, compounding each shortage into a broader catastrophe. This policy has plunged Gaza's two million residents into a deepening cycle of deprivation. The United Nations and major international relief organizations have repeatedly warned of imminent famine, with malnutrition rates, particularly among children, soaring. Pharmacies report empty shelves, and chronic patients are unable to access vital treatments. The sheer scale of need now far outpaces the trickle of aid convoys permitted to cross into the territory, leaving families to face desperate choices in their search for food, clean water, and medical care. The strategic timing of this intensified pressure has not gone unnoticed. With the world's media and major powers consumed by the volatile standoff with Iran, the deteriorating situation in Gaza has struggled to maintain a consistent spotlight on the global stage. Critics argue this diversion of attention has allowed the policy of engineered scarcity to continue with reduced...

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