As part of its devastating war strategy against Hamas, Israel has restricted shipments of food and medicine to just a fraction of what Palestinian civilians need to survive.
The crisis is an artificially created one. Gaza, population roughly 2.3 million, is not geographically isolated. The small strip of land on the eastern Mediterranean coast served as a wellconnected port for centuries.
“Starvation is used as a weapon of war,” the EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said last week. “Israel is provoking famine.”
Gaza used to have multiple land border crossings, but