After a full year (the petition submitted March 2024) Israel's Supreme Court rejects appeal to allow humanitarian aid to Gaza, claiming, inter alia, that "the IDF and the respondents went above and beyond to enable the provision of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip" 1/5 In his conclusion judge Mintz provides numerous quotes from Jewish sources and then frames Israel's war on Gaza as a religious war: "The State of Israel is in the midst of a war of duty [religious term מלחמת מצווה] in the full sense of the word. 2/5

"Mosquito Procedure"
I was in Gaza nine months. I saw several new procedures there. One of the worst was the Mosquito Procedure: innocent Palestinians who are forced to enter houses in Gaza and "acquit" it, meaning to check that there are no terrorists or explosives in it 1/8 We called it all sorts of names, the "Mosquito Procedure," "Shawishim" (slaves), "platforms."

Breaking News. A new study by Israeli academics finds that Israel has not only been allowing sufficient food to enter Gaza, but that the amount of calories is 50% more than what the Gazan's need 1/4 This is the study and these are the authors. Their paper was submitted by the Israeli government to the Supreme Court in order to demonstrate that Israel is not violating international law 2/5

Thread: Muna Haddad and I trace in this long piece how Israel has used food to control the Palestinians in Gaza from 1967 until today. Below is a thread of just one paragraph so as to provide a sense of the kind of machinations that were put to work.

nybooks.com/online/2024/03… The document assumed that Palestinians would be able to import only limited quantities of “basic food items,” such as flour, rice, oil, fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, powdered milk, and baby formula, which Israel calculated could be delivered with seventy-seven trucks a day.