Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies
“After 20 months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western countries is finally starting to shift — but will words translate into action? And what exactly can other countries do when the United States still shields Israel from efforts to enforce international law, as it did at the UN Security Council on June 5th? On May 30th, Tom Fletcher, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, accused Israel of committing a war crime by using starvation as a weapon against the people of Gaza. In a searing interview with the BBC, Fletcher explained how Israel’s policy of forced starvation fits into its larger strategy of ethnic cleansing. ‘We’re seeing food set on the borders and not being allowed in, when there is a population on the other side of the border that is starving,’ Fletcher said. ‘And we’re hearing Israeli ministers say that is to put pressure on the population of Gaza.'” (06/05/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/when-will-western-support-for-israeli-genocide-finally-crack