There’s always more, and it’s always worse. Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza, with various Knesset members and government ministers open and frank about their desire to “wipe Gaza off the face of the Earth” as they dismiss its inhabitants as “human animals“.
Their current brutally effective tactic is one any medieval warlord would be familiar with: starvation. After conducting a smear campaign against the UN aid agency UNWRA, Israel is now in complete control of all aid entering Gaza. But, though food sits stacked up high in warehouses, they’re only letting a trickle through to the starving people.
There’s an inescapable calculus at play here. The human body needs a certain amount of calories per day to function and Israel has ensured that the food arriving in Gaza doesn’t come close to meeting that. As such, Gazans are collapsing in the streets as a result of Israel’s artificial famine, with doctors horrified as children drop dead from starvation.
Israel knows how desperate these people are for food, and knows they’re now forced to appear at aid distribution sites to have a chance at staying alive. But a new testimony from inside Gaza reveals that things have taken a terrifying Squid Game-style turn.
Horrible and the most horrific testimony you will ever hear
— Inés El-Hajj|Stories from Palestine
I have spoken on a space with @AbujomaaGaza, who explained the process of the “Death Traps” the GHF have created…I quote “regularly posts the aid distribution schedule on Facebook. Each time, around 60,000 to 70,000… pic.twitter.com/3UJdg7Nvgn(@InesStories99) July 21, 2025
Real-life Squid Game
Motasem A. Dalloul is a Palestinian journalist based in Gaza, who has reported for Middle East Monitor and Middle East Eye. He’s been an eyewitness and reporter of the situation in Gaza and, tragically, has had to endure the loss of his pregnant wife and three sons, who were murdered in Israeli strikes.
He reports that people seeking aid must pass through a sadistic gauntlet set up by Israeli forces to get food. This sees 60-70k starving people gathering to receive food, with loudspeakers instructing them in Arabic how this game will work.
According to him, it’s essentially red light, green light. While the green light is on, those present have 10 minutes to gather as much food and supplies as they can. After ten minutes, the light turns yellow, which functions as a five-minute warning. After this, the light turns red, and the aid area is then riddled with bullets, killing anyone unlucky enough to still be looking for food.
Israel prevents external monitoring of their aid distribution efforts and their soldiers are under strict orders not to post videos online, but Dalloul’s testimony is in line with many other witness statements detailing this process. This includes given testimony by a soldier to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, who described the process as “a lethal version of the children’s game “red light, green light”.
Israeli politicians are open about their desire to seize the Gaza Strip. For example, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said, “that land belongs to us” and “We will not allow a single gram of aid into the Gaza Strip until its people kneel and beg. Gaza must be leveled to the ground. There is no such thing as innocent people.”
This ambition can only be achieved by disposing of the people living there, and starvation, bombing, and bullets are the way they’re doing it.
