Israel Is Banning the 'Last Foreign Witnesses' to Its Genocide in Gaza
In a likely deadly move, the Israeli government told 37 foreign aid groups, including Doctors Without Borders, they could no longer operate in Palestine. Where is the outrage?
It is what I call the “death by a thousand cuts”: the slow, methodical, bureaucratic way of killing or destroying something that the Israeli government has perfected over the decades. It always has a fake security rationale, but the real reason is to control Palestinian life, to make living impossible, to eventually erase us.
We have seen this pattern for decades, not just in the way that Israel tries to steal land, or put up checkpoints, or destroy our homes, but also in the ways in which they try to control the work of Palestinian as well as international non-governmental organizations. It is therefore not at all surprising that Israel has now effectively banned dozens of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) working in Palestine. It’s a fateful and deadly cut – that was planned, and we saw it coming. Yet, the outrage from the foreign governments home to these vital aid groups has been minimal at best.