When Food Aid Becomes a Death Trap Author: Gouya Aydin

 

When Food Aid Becomes a Death Trap

Author: Gouya Roshan (Güya Aydın ) 

In a world that talks about human dignity, institutions bearing the name “human rights” are witnessing the systematic massacre of the Palestinian people. A crime committed not in secrecy, but in front of the eyes of millions. Yet, silence continues not only from governments but also from organizations that should be on the front lines defending humanity. One of the bitterest and most shameful examples of this complicity is the role and silence of the United Nations in the disaster currently unfolding in Gaza.

While Gaza has been under complete siege for months, water, electricity, medicine, and food have been withheld from the people, and in conditions where children are dying of hunger, the trickle of food aid delivered resembles more a death trap than a humanitarian act. Why? Because time and again, food queues have been deliberately bombed. More than 800 people waiting for aid have lost their lives. The United Nations knows this. Its observers are present. But it remains silent. No resolution, no effective protest, not even a loud voice shouting: “Enough!”

How is it possible that a global institution, whose very philosophy is peace and the protection of human lives, remains a mere spectator in the face of the planned killing of children? The answer is clear: The United Nations is hostage to politics; it is not a defender of humanity. The permanent members of the Security Council, including the United States Israel’s main partner in these crimes repeatedly veto any real chance of action. For this reason, the institution is practically paralyzed, and its role has shifted from “peacekeeper” to “indifferent witness to crime.”

In the official narrative, it is said that sending food and humanitarian aid is the responsibility of the international community. But when that aid turns into a trap for killing, when people are drawn to slaughter for a piece of bread, this is no longer just a “war crime,” but a deliberate, structured, and planned crime against humanity. And any institution aware of this and remaining silent is complicit and an accomplice.

These crimes happen not only in the dark of night but in front of cameras. Images of hungry children being met with bullets have been publicized. Does the United Nations not see them? Or does it see and simply prefer to remain “neutral”? It must be said: neutrality in the face of crime is betrayal.

Many people around the world ask: Is humanitarian aid merely a cover to continue the war? Why are no safe passages created to deliver food to Palestinians? Why are the few aid deliveries that arrive accompanied not by serious support but by ambiguity, delays, and even Israel’s permission? Because everything even bread and medicine has turned into a tool for humiliation and submission.

In this field of death, children who do not even know what “Zionism” means are silenced by hunger and bullets. And the world especially organizations claiming to be the “conscience of humanity”—only write, report, and warn, without taking action.

And here it must be said: silence is complicity; reporting is justification; and conscience, if alive only in statements, is no longer conscience but a mask over the face of hypocrisy.

If one day a court for global justice is established, perhaps the empty seats of Palestinian victims will be placed beside those of institutions like the United Nations so the world can see that some crimes are carried out with bullets, and others with silence.