Gaza is on the brink of irreversible famine, the United States must END its support for Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon against Palestinians Dear Email, Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action) strongly condemns the Israeli government’s systematic use of mass starvation against the Palestinian population in Gaza. With deliberate and precise measures, including the blockade and militarized distribution of humanitarian aid, Israel is intentionally inflicting catastrophic suffering upon over two million Palestinians, most of whom are children, and are now facing imminent death from starvation. Just yesterday, a Palestinian man died while standing in line waiting for food. - President Trump and Congress immediately compel Israel to allow unrestricted emergency food aid into Gaza, exclusively managed by the United Nations and credible humanitarian organizations.
- The immediate termination of the immoral, mercenary “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.”
 According to reporting on an upcoming report from Forensic Architecture, Gaza is experiencing “minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation.” This brutal, inhumane, genocidal policy is devastating the population, killing at least 19 Palestinians through starvation just this week, among them infants and young children deprived of basic nutrition and essential infant formula. “We call on the United Nations and the Trump administration to fulfill their legal and moral obligations to intervene urgently,” said Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid, Executive Director of AJP Action. “The starvation of millions of innocent Palestinians is an intentional atrocity unfolding before the world’s eyes. Any further delay in action by the international community constitutes complicity.” Crucially, this aid must be exclusively managed by the United Nations and credible humanitarian organizations. The current so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" (GHF), which has forcibly replaced the UN’s system, is clearly functioning as a proxy for Israeli and U.S. military interests, resulting in hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries among Palestinians merely attempting to access desperately needed aid. Testimonies gathered by Amnesty International from medical professionals and victims underscore the horrific impact of Israel’s militarized aid system. Nearly 1,100 Palestinians have been killed at GHF-controlled sites since May 2025, with thousands more injured. Amnesty International’s Secretary-General Agnès Callamard stated clearly, “Israel has continued to use starvation as a weapon of war against Palestinians…and deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction.” International humanitarian laws and the Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly prohibit the use of starvation as a method of warfare and mandate that an occupying power provide for the essential needs of the occupied population. Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute grave violations of these legal standards and represent a moral crisis that demands immediate international accountability. Take action now, our elected officials shouldn’t go a day without hearing about this. In solidarity,
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