The Genocide Is Not Only Televised

The Genocide Is Not Only Televised—It’s Engineered

🖋️ By Malik Mukhtar
📍 ainnbeen.blogspot.com
📅 June 30, 2025

“Starvation is the weapon of choice.”
— Chris Hedges, June 29, 2025

In Gaza, genocide doesn’t need gas chambers. It needs control over food. It needs silence. It needs us to look away.

In March 2025, Israel and its Western allies accomplished what months of siege and saturation bombing couldn’t: they dismantled UNRWA, Gaza’s last remaining lifeline, severing access to food, medicine, and basic dignity. Replacing it was not a humanitarian effort—but a cruel performance.

Enter the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)—a front of war masquerading as aid. GHF was crafted not by relief professionals but by Mossad-linked contractors, CIA-linked security firms, and mercenaries. Its CEO is Rev. Johnnie Moore, a Christian Zionist with close ties to Netanyahu and Trump. This was never about food. It was about control.

To cement the illusion of international legitimacy, the U.S. appointed Jake Wood—a decorated former Marine and humanitarian—to oversee GHF’s operations. But what Wood saw broke him. Just three weeks into his assignment, he resigned in protest, penning a haunting New York Times op-ed that sent shockwaves through global diplomatic circles.

“We are not feeding the hungry—we are corralling them. We are watching them die.”

Wood’s words are a searing indictment of the Western-led charade. But more damning is what Israel did next.

Gaza’s “Aid Sites”: A Killing Field in Disguise

According to a Haaretz investigation published June 27, IDF commanders ordered soldiers to shoot into crowds of unarmed Palestinians at GHF aid distribution hubs. The soldiers called it “Operation Salted Fish”—a sadistic nod to Squid Game, where the desperate are slaughtered while chasing hope.

“It’s a killing field,” an IDF soldier told Haaretz.
“No crowd control. No tear gas. Just live fire. Mortars. Heavy machine guns.”

The statistics are numbing:

580 civilians killed,
4,216 wounded—
all while queuing for food. Many were children. Many were mothers. Most were unarmed. All were starving.

And Israel knew it.

From UNRWA to GHF: Starvation as Strategy

Before the genocide, UNRWA operated 400 aid points. Now, there are just four—run by GHF, protected by American and Israeli guns, and surrounded by mercenaries and thugs. Palestinians, once dignified and self-sufficient, are now herded like livestock. They're forced to crawl through rubble, dodging sniper fire and stepping over corpses—just for a bag of rice or a can of beans.

And yet, this horror isn’t without historical precedent.

Chris Hedges draws chilling parallels between Gaza and past genocides:

Nazi tactics in the Warsaw Ghetto,
The Holodomor in Ukraine,
The Armenian genocide,
Bosnia,
Sudan,
Guatemala.

In each case, starvation was weaponized to break a people—physically, spiritually, and politically.

Gaza is now that frontline.

A Testimony from the Abyss

Yousef al-Ajouri, a father of seven, shared with Middle East Eye his harrowing journey to a GHF hub. He left at night, crawling alongside elderly women and children, hoping to reach a distribution site under sniper fire. He saw a boy shot dead for using a flashlight. He watched another man bleed to death, untouched and unrescued. When he finally reached aid, he fought off a knife-wielding stranger to secure just four cans of beans.

Hours later, at al-Awda Hospital, he saw 35 bodies lined in a room—all shot in the head or chest while waiting for aid.

Jake Wood’s Conscience, Our Indictment

Wood’s resignation and his NYT op-ed have confirmed what Palestinians have long screamed to a deaf world: GHF is a mechanism of death, not life.

Even Chris Gunness, former UNRWA spokesperson, called it out:

“This is not humanitarian relief. This is aid-washing genocide.”

Israel has reduced Gaza to a moonscape of rubble and sewage. The final obstacle to total conquest isn’t Hamas. It isn’t resistance. It’s the existence of Palestinians. And starvation is how Israel plans to erase them.

Silence Is Complicity. Knowledge Is Action.

Do not look away.

If you say you stood with Bosnia…
If you mourned the Warsaw Ghetto…
If you cried for Sudan, Armenia, or Ukraine…
Gaza is your mirror.

“We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away… There’s no danger to the forces… No return fire. No enemy. No weapons.”
— IDF soldier to Haaretz

Israel and its enablers have chosen hunger as their final weapon. We must choose humanity as our final stand.

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