Gaza Palestinians mass murder of Israelis leads to death and destruction

 NPR:

In late February of 2024, Jordanian cargo planes flew over northern Gaza, dropping large pallets of food attached to giant parachutes down to crowds of scrambling Palestinians.

The area had been without consistent aid for weeks. The Israeli military was focusing much of its operations there, cutting off available delivery routes for international organizations. Out of desperation, Palestinians had resorted to eating animal feed and weeds.

Since the war began five months earlier, senior U.S. officials had been in intense discussions with the Israelis to open land routes to get more truckloads of aid into northern Gaza.

Now they watched the Jordanian airdrops on TV.

"The mockery of this complete bull**** PR stunt was universal," remembered a former U.S. official with direct knowledge of what happened. "Everybody knew that it wasn't going to make any meaningful dent."

But only a few days later, the U.S. decided it would be carrying out its own airdrops into Gaza.

"What was striking was how quickly we pivoted from criticism to emulation — not because we thought it was the right way to get aid in, but because, faced with an inability to diplomatically move the Israelis at that point to increase trucks, we were going to throw everything at the wall, no matter how inefficient, no matter how expensive, and frankly, no matter how dangerous," said the official.

NPR spoke to more than two dozen former senior U.S. officials, some of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly about sensitive internal discussions within the Biden administration. These officials, from the White House, State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), were all directly involved in shaping U.S. policy on Israel's war in Gaza.

What they told was a story of strong, sometimes bitter arguments within the administration on how far the U.S. was willing to go to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow more aid into Gaza. U.S. officials were left frustrated by hours-long, heated exchanges with their Israeli counterparts. The effort to deal with the emerging humanitarian crisis, officials say, was complicated by a president who felt a deep responsibility to Israel and its security, and the question of whether or not to openly confront Israel or use punitive measures, like withholding military aid.

The interviews with the officials revealed tensions between two main camps within senior ranks of the administration on how to approach the issue of humanitarian access: those who believed the U.S. needed to use its leverage to push Israel to adhere to the Geneva Conventions on civilian protection and allowance of aid, and those who believed in giving Israel space to conduct its war with Hamas, all the while pressing behind the scene for more aid to the besieged civilians.

But nearly two years since the war began, the moment many in the global aid world feared has arrived: Famine has been confirmed in Gaza, according to the world's leading authority on food insecurity.
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The war in Gaza was a direct result of Hamas engaging in the mass murder of Jewish civilians in Israel.  While the NPR story eventually gets to that reality, it takes too long to explain that aspect of the fighting.  The Palestinian Gazans also express their desire to kill all the Jews in Israel.  This was a classic example of the FAFO consequences.  It was the equivalent of tugging on Superman's cape.  Israel had a right to attack those who sought its destruction.  The Gazans' attitude toward Israel and the Jews was similar to that of the Nazis.

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