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.