D.C. is funding Israel’s starvation campaign, it’s on us to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza Dear Email, Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action) demands an immediate end to the criminal, artificially engineered famine in Gaza, imposed by the Israeli government and the United States. What Israel and the United States government are doing is genocide and one of the worst crimes against humanity of the 21st century. This is not a natural disaster but a policy choice, executed with intent. The World Food Programme (WFP) has stated that 100 percent of people in Gaza are facing acute levels of food insecurity right now, while the United Nations has declared that 96 percent of Gaza’s population—2.15 million people—are experiencing a “crisis” level of hunger that will scar and damage the population for a lifetime and kill hundreds of thousands in the coming days and weeks if not addressed. ‘Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, the U.N. Palestinian relief agency, posted on X Thursday that “People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses’: a colleague in #Gaza told me this morning.” Palestinians have filmed themselves tying rocks around their stomachs to alleviate their pain, drinking salt water to stave off hunger, and dying while waiting in soup lines. Those who can reach limited food sources are being shot, beaten, and bludgeoned. At least 495,000 Palestinians are in “IPC Phase 5,” the most catastrophic stage of hunger that guarantees death without immediate intervention. The few remaining hospitals are reporting infants weighing less than half of what they should, while aid workers are collapsing from hunger. Meanwhile, Israeli forces continue to open fire on starving Palestinians seeking food, massacring them at so-called distribution sites established under the U.S.-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).  This famine is engineered. It is systematic. And it has been made possible by the U.S. As the famine becomes irreversible, the Trump Administration is orchestrating the blockade alongside Israel and engaging fully in the genocide of Palestinians. President Trump’s recent remarks, responding to calls for humanity with callousness, illegally and immorally link humanitarian access for civilians in Gaza to negotiations over hostages and a ceasefire. This constitutes a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions and amounts to collective punishment. A newly revealed USAID analysis found no evidence that Hamas has stolen U.S.-funded humanitarian aid in Gaza, undermining the central claim used by Israel and the U.S. to justify diverting aid away from the UN and toward militarized alternatives. The study instead documented dozens of aid losses caused directly or indirectly by the Israeli military, confirming that this famine is not accidental. It is engineered. International law is clear: starving civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime. Using humanitarian aid as leverage to displace Palestinians or force political concessions is genocide. The delivery of food and medicine cannot depend on political calculations, nor can it be used to extract surrender from a population being systematically annihilated. This is not the first time Palestinians have been promised relief only to see it shattered by duplicity. Earlier this year, Trump’s own envoys helped broker a ceasefire deal, only to allow Israel to renege weeks later. The Palestinian people have been forced into cycles of hope and betrayal for far too long. The international community must stop treating Palestinian survival as a point of negotiation. We must stand up and demand that our politicians and government end the starvation of Palestinians and allow food, water, and necessities into the Gaza Strip. Take action now and urge your loved ones to do the same.
In solidarity,
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action | 
