We will pay for averting our eyes from the horrors created by monsters

On Sunday, 13 July, siblings Karam (9) and Lulu (10) al-Ghussain went to fetch water for their family from a water distribution site in Gaza.

- Mark Tomlinson

Given the much-vaunted proclamations of precision bombing by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), we can assume that they identified when there were enough people and children in line before proceeding with the bombing of the site and dismembering Karam and Lulu.

I began writing this piece on Saturday, 19 July, and during the course of the day 32 Palestinians were killed while seeking food and water. On Sunday, 20 July, another 73 Palestinians who had been queueing were killed. By Monday morning that figure had been adjusted upwards to 93 confirmed dead. The pope went so far as to describe the bombing as barbaric.

Much of the aid now being “allowed” into Gaza is being distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US organisa-tion launched in February with the aim of supplying aid to Gaza. It operates in a small part of Gaza, has no website and has the full support of the Israeli government.

The foundation has been accused of making starvation a bargaining chip and being a direct accomplice in Israel's killing and starvation machine. The UN has estimated that, since the end of May, the IDF has killed more than 800 people who were trying to secure food at the foundation’s distribution hubs. This figure is now well above 1,000.