Wed 30-April-2025

Ramona Wadi

Ramona Wadi is an independent researcher freelance journalist book reviewer and blogger. Her writing covers a range of themes in relation to Palestine Chile and Latin America. Her article appeared in MEMO.

Israel is controlling the humanitarian paradigm

Since the early days of the latest and ongoing phase of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, humanitarian aid has become a major weapon. It was on 9 October 2023 that the then Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant ordered a complete siege to be imposed on Gaza.

Exposing the UN’s hypocrisy of humanitarian aid and ceasefires

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council this week that, “As aid has dried up, the floodgates of horror have re-opened. Gaza is a killing field – and civilians are in an endless death loop.”

The humanitarian paradigm is as deadly as genocide

As Israel omits Palestinians from Gaza in its depraved genocide, let the international community omit all its hypocritical rhetoric of “concern”, “deeply disturbed”, “deplores” and “catastrophic”.

Wasting time has never been deadlier for Palestinians

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has found it pertinent to reiterate that, “We are negotiating under fire.”

Israel’s use of human shields in Gaza is part of its genocide against Palestinians

Now that attention has shifted from the genocide in Gaza to the Trump administration, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has admitted that it is investigating instances where Palestinians were used as human shields by its troops in the coastal enclave.

The EU needs to clarify where it stands on Gaza

Speaking at the Emergency Summit of the League of Arab States this week, European Council President Antonio Costa’s intervention was replete with normalized inaccuracies.

Palestinians are being displaced by rhetoric and action

Rejecting Israel’s forced displacement of Palestinians by rhetoric does not work.

Forced transfer and the West’s reliance on the humanitarian paradigm

Emboldened by the US and the international community’s acceptance of its genocide, Israel is not taking long to emerge from the shadows of its own rhetoric.

The international community sold out the Palestinians decades ago on the right of return

“Gaza is an essential part of a future Palestinian state,” the EU Spokesman for Foreign Affairs Anouar El Anouni stated belatedly in response to US President Donald Trump’s announcement of taking over Gaza and remodeling into a so-called “Riviera of the Middle East”.

Incitement and action point towards an ongoing genocide

The relief over the brokered ceasefire was soon overshadowed by ‘coincidences’ which make one wonder about the oppression that Palestinians face relentlessly from Israel, the US and the international community.

Trump’s return and the humanitarian paradigm

Throughout his first tenure, US President Donald Trump mounted a campaign against the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) which included slander and defunding.

Israel’s humanitarian gimmicks and settler-colonial detachment

While continuing its genocide in Gaza, Israel still wants to play its faux humanitarian concern card. An article published by AP recently, which made its way to the Times of Israel albeit with some details regarding the kill toll edited out.

As clarity on Israel’s genocide grows, so does the int’l community’s silence

More proof of Israel’s genocidal intent and actions comes from an investigation conducted by the New York Times, which discovered that since 7 October 2023, the Israeli military issued an order that allowed the killing of up to 20 Palestinian civilians with each strike.

The perks for genocide in Gaza

In “enemy territory” – Israel’s euphemism for Gaza – it is beyond satire to see the Israeli military destroying Gaza’s infrastructure in order to kill Palestinians, while building infrastructure for its soldiers.

Genocide in the name of security, according to Israeli settler narratives

Israeli settler leaders are calling upon the Israeli government to emulate the genocidal strategy used against Palestinians in Gaza to displace and ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the occupied West Bank.

UNRWA, Palestinian children and the two-state diplomacy that works against children’s rights

According to UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini writing on X, “Wherever we work, @UNRWA is dedicated to helping children be children.”

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