On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, HBO host John Oliver pointed the finger at two culprits for hunger in Gaza, and neither one of them was Hamas. According to Oliver, it is the U.S. that is “being complicit” in Israel’s campaign to starve Gazans and is unwilling to do anything about it.
One way Israel and others have started replacing truck-delivered aid is through air drops, and Oliver is not a fan, “Yeah, air dropping aid in Gaza is a great way to deliver food, as long as you want it to arrive both ‘not enough’ and ‘in the ocean.’ And it's not just ineffective as a food-delivery system; it's dangerous and demeaning. If you order DoorDash, you don't want the app to tell you, "Your burrito is in the Hudson River. Go fetch."
Of course, wartime operations are not the same as your DoorDash delivery person throwing your burrito in the Hudson. Nevertheless, Oliver attacked Israel for shifting to such tactics, “And Israel's explanations for why they've shifted to this model just don't stand up. They've repeatedly claimed the U.N. is not distributing aid, though—as the U.N. points out—that's mainly because "Israel frequently denies or delays its requests to bring in convoys." They've also claimed U.N. aid was routinely getting stolen by Hamas, though two top Israeli military officials reportedly admitted there's no proof of that happening.”
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