Each day creates a new “surely it cannot go on like this” moment, and then it indeed goes on and the pyre of death and suffering in Gaza rises a little higher. But this week feels different, like something profound in the global perspective on Gaza is shifting. Is it vain or naïve to think it might be the beginning of the end, finally?
A rising chorus of military, political and activist voices has been calling for a cease-fire and an end to the blockade of humanitarian aid—and to the charade of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a controversial ad hoc service that has managed to deliver some aid but at an appalling cost to the people of Gaza. Observers around the world have grown weary of the images of starving children and desperate people gunned down while trying to collect bags of flour or boxes of food.
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