FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 19, 2025
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Washington, D.C. | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deceptive and performative resumption of aid into Gaza is an affront so he can continue his crimes against humanity. This announcement is not a humanitarian gesture—it is a calculated, cynical response to mounting international pressure, designed to preserve Israel’s strategic goals and the illusion of restraint while continuing its campaign of extermination against the Palestinian people.
For decades, Israel has imposed a total blockade on humanitarian and commercial goods entering Gaza. This deliberate siege has practically depleted supplies critical to survival—food, water, medicine, fuel. 100% of Gaza’s population is now living under acute food insecurity.
Starving Palestinians has historically been a common practice of the occupation. Israel is not “allowing” aid into Gaza; it is limiting it with surgical cruelty. The recent “approval” of a few trucks of aid is a grotesque performance. The United Nations says Gaza needs at least 500 aid trucks every day. What actually entered were five or nine—“a drop in the ocean,” as the UN put it.
This is the legacy of the blockade: mass starvation, collapsing health systems, rotting bodies buried in rubble, and a world being told that somehow, this is humanitarianism.
We remind President Trump that the United States does not need Israeli permission to deliver aid. It has the power, the means, and the responsibility to act now. To continue deferring to Israeli control over humanitarian corridors is to become a full partner in the siege. Washington cannot claim moral high ground while writing checks for starvation and standing by as children with distended bellies die on camera.
No amount of public relations spin by Israel can disguise the truth. This is the use of hunger as a weapon of war. This is collective punishment. This is genocide. The time for polite diplomacy and conditional aid has passed. What is required now is courage, moral clarity, and action.
ADC stands with the people of Gaza. We call on President Trump, every American official, journalist, and citizen of conscience: Do not look away. Do not let history record your silence. The starvation of a nation is not aid—it is annihilation. And it must end. Now.