For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, civilian victims are not the same: those in Israel are victims of terrorism and those in Gaza, those who are dying from its bombs, are collateral victims. The United States has asked that operations be more precise, while the International Red Cross describes a Dantesque panorama among Gazan civilians. The bombs illuminate the sky of Rafah, but this is no longer the only reason why Gazans die. The lack of food leads them to board, desperate, trucks with humanitarian aid because they barely have anything to put in their mouths.

“Half the population in the Gaza Strip is dying of hunger and nine of “Every ten people are not eating enough.”, the deputy executive director of the UN World Food Program (WFP), Carl Skau, warned this Thursday. In a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Skau, who visited the Palestinian enclave over the weekend to see first-hand the situation on the ground, painted a bleak picture for the hundreds of thousands of displaced people. by the Israeli offensive.

“What you see is that there is fear“You see it in people’s eyes and you hear it when you talk to them: many questions, a lot of confusion about what is going to happen next,” he said. The US emphasizes its support for Israel while demanding operations more precise in the face of the incessant increase in Palestinian civilian victims. Jake Sullivan, the US National Security Advisor, has assured that we must “at the same time minimize harm to civilians and guarantee humanitarian aid in Gaza.”

Israel looks the other way and its defense minister insists: the offensive will continue. The Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, has warned that the war against Hamas “it will take more than two months“. Netanyahu, for his part, has differentiated between Israeli civilian deaths and Palestinian deaths: “There is a difference between murder, mutilation and the deliberate and systemic threat of (Israeli) civilians, which is terrorism, and the consequences of collateral casualties that accompany any war.”

His Foreign Minister, Cohen, goes further and assures that the Red Cross “should not exist” because, he points out, they have not met with the families of the hostages. With this, he makes clear that it is the Red Cross that has entered the Strip to collect, transport and safely return those freed by Hamas.