the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Jun 9, 2025
This article is translated from the June 6 issue #2966 of Lutte Ouvrière (Workers Struggle), the paper of the revolutionary workers group of that name active in France.
The Israeli army opened fire yet again on June 1 on thousands of Palestinians gathered outside a food aid distribution center in southern Gaza, killing 31 people.
In the course of a week, more than 72 people were killed and hundreds injured in similar circumstances. The director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, condemned the fact that “aid distribution has become a death trap” for the inhabitants of Gaza ever since food aid was withdrawn from the U.N. and the NGOs that had been distributing it.
Israeli authorities alleged that Hamas was diverting international aid for its own benefit. Supported by Washington, Israel turned food distribution over to a new organization founded in Switzerland on May 14, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), whose governance and funding sources were undisclosed. Food aid now is distributed in locations in southern Gaza guarded by private American security companies Safe Reach Solutions and UG Solutions, run by a former CIA officer and a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer who describes himself as a “degenerate who joined the army to inflict pain on the people who inflicted pain on us,” according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
“These are not aid distribution centers, they are a kind of military base,” an NGO official said. The conditions of access to these aid centers were defined restrictively. Only one person per household is allowed to enter, provided they are registered, are identifiable by facial recognition, and get a notification by text message. In no way can this system meet the needs of the more than two million Gazans who have been victims of a total blockade since the beginning of March.
As expected, thousands of starving Palestinians clustered at the gates of the GHF centers after crossing Gaza by foot. Chaos erupted. The massacres committed by the Israeli army were predictable and effectively premeditated.
The implementation of this distribution system, and its deadly consequences, won’t relieve the Palestinian population. This is intended to further displace Gaza’s people, following an outright program of ethnic cleansing. Meanwhile fruitless negotiations drag on. The war and the massacre of Palestinians continue—with the open support or the self-serving objections of the major imperialist powers.