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Israel’s Agent of Influence: Steve Witkoff is Delivering Death Instead of Aid
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On Sunday, the Israeli military perpetrated a dreadful massacre by assaulting thousands of malnourished Palestinan civilians congregated near a U.S. aid location in western Rafah, resulting in 31 fatalities and over 200 injuries, making this war crime, the largest massacre since the new aid mechanism, spearheaded by the murky Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), was enforced in Gaza. In just over eight days, the death toll from attacks on aid distribution sites in Gaza has risen to 102. Rami Abdu, the head of the Geneva-based NGO Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, stated on Sunday that the video shared by the spokesperson for the Israeli military, which was intended to clear Israel of responsibility for the massacre of starving civilians near a U.S. aid distribution point in Khan Yunis and not in Rafah, as claimed by the Israelis, had instead backfired, sparking a major scandal.
VIDEO: Aerial footage released by the Israeli army, meant to deny responsibility for the “Witkoff Massacre,” ended up exposing another crime: the protection and sponsorship of looting gangs (Source: IDF)
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In a statement, Abdu disclosed that the released footage depicted an armed gang, supported by Israeli forces, plundering seven flour trucks in Khan Younis. The head of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor further elaborated:
“Surveillance Execution: The gang, functioning under the watch of Israeli drones, opened fire when civilians attempted to reclaim the stolen aid. – Exposed Extortion: Anyone attempting to take a bag of flour without paying 100 shekels ($30) faced gunfire or physical assault from the occupation-supported gang”.
“Silent Complicity: Israeli drones observed the entire event without taking any action. Abdu underscored that the aerial footage, disseminated to deflect accountability for the “Witkoff Massacre”, ultimately revealed Israel’s protection of looting gangs”.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise—a U.N. memo obtained by The Washington Post in November 2024 already concluded that gangs “may be benefiting from a passive if not active benevolence” or “protection” from Israel’s military. The same month, the Israeli outlet Haaretz reported that “the Israeli army was allowing gangs in Gaza to loot aid trucks and extort protection fees from drivers.” Things are going from bad to worse. Earlier today, The Palestinian Chronicle reported that once more, the Israeli military forces fired their weapons near the US aid distribution center in Rafah, leading to the deaths of at least 24 Palestinians and injuring many more.
There is little doubt that the “Witcoff Massacre” will continue, resulting in additional casualties as the Israeli-US-backed humanitarian aid initiative inflicts a decisive strike on the Palestinians, exploiting the desperation of countless starving individuals in a calculated effort to compel them into voluntary relocation. BettBeat Media has the story…
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The Witkoff Massacre in the Hungriest Place on Earth
Steve Witkoff’s name is now synonymous with massacre. The American envoy, sent to broker peace, instead engineered a system where starving Palestinians are herded into militarised kill zones under the cynical guise of humanitarian aid. As Israeli bullets cut down families reaching for flour sacks, Witkoff’s legacy is written in blood—the architect of a death trap that Palestinians now call by his name: “The Witkoff Massacre.“
We’re next…
Make no mistake, we are getting a glimpse into our collective future. Look at the image above, then close your eyes and imagine it is your father or grandfather crawling through fences for a bag of flour. This is the future being prepared for us all—a Mad Max reality of depravity where the wealthy treat the rest of humanity as mere flesh: to be killed, tortured, or used for sexual pleasure and then discarded.
I have written repeatedly that allowing this genocide will transfer its methods to the rest of us. It is not hyperbole but historical certainty. We once remarked, “There are people now born who never knew a world without the internet,” then “without smartphones.” We are now entering a world where a generation grows up never knowing a time without normalized mass murder, rape, and genocide broadcast in high definition to our devices.
Hence, consider this terrible question: Do you expect that generation to return us to a world where at least the veneer existed that such barbarity was not normal?
The pretense of offering relief has been unmasked as an instrument of extermination. What was promoted as a lifeline has become a mechanism for population control, displacement, and slaughter. The man instrumental in its creation, Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, has permanently etched his name into the lexicon of atrocity. Palestinians rightly refer to the massacres at aid distribution sites as the “Witkoff Massacre” – a term that explicitly assigns moral responsibility to the American diplomat who fronted both the deceptive ceasefire proposal, the negotiations to release an American hostage while delivering nothing in return, and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
Just imagine: intentionally starving a whole population, bombing, terrorizing & killing them incessantly – and then finally luring them into a gauntlet, and then massacring them. That is what Netanyahu & his accomplices @realDonaldTrump @potus @SteveWitkoff are now doing to the… https://t.co/yZf4I3lKam
— Patrick Henningsen (@21WIRE) June 2, 2025
At least 49 Palestinians have been killed and over 305 injured by Israeli fire near aid distribution points since May 27th alone. Today, on the second of June, 32 Palestinians were killed at GHF sites in Rafah and near the Netzarim corridor. These were not accidents or aberrations – they represent the deliberate culmination of Israel’s genocidal intent, now aided and abetted by an American envoy of private rape-for-food predators contractors purportedly sent to broker peace.
The GHF, heavily backed by the US and spearheaded by Witkoff, was introduced as an “apolitical” alternative to UNRWA, the UN agency that was competent and capable of delivering aid, precisely why Israel undermined it. The GHF centers more closely resemble concentration camps than humanitarian assistance sites: high-security zones surrounded by fences and surveillance, staffed not by impartial aid workers but by former CIA operatives and private US military contractors operating under Israeli military supervision.
These are depraved individuals who voluntarily deploy to war zones for profit because the violence excites them. Men with machine guns who stalk through crowds of emaciated children, weaponising starvation by exchanging vital food packages for sexual access to desperate victims. They are mercenaries trafficking in human suffering, not humanitarians providing relief.
The Hungriest Place on Earth
“The video released by the Israeli army spokesman to deny Israel’s responsibility for the massacre of starving civilians near the US aid distribution point in Rafah has backfired,” said Ramy Abdu, head of the Euromediterranean Human Rights Monitor. The footage meant to exonerate Israel instead exposed another crime – the protection and sponsorship of looting gangs stealing aid under Israeli drones’ watchful eye.
Contemplate this obscenity: a sliver of land surrounded by prosperous nations and seas of food, where every single human being is being systematically starved while the world watches their agony on high-definition screens. The weight of this manufactured catastrophe—deliberate, documented, and defended—ignites in me a fury so profound that words themselves begin to fail. As a writer bearing witness, I find this orchestrated starvation not just unforgivable but unbearable.
This is not a natural disaster. It is engineered scarcity, a deliberate weapon deployed against a captive population. Even as thousands of aid trucks wait at borders for months, even as warehouses of food rot in Jordan, Palestinian children starve to death.
Supporting Biblical-Scale Genocide
Dr. Ahmed Abu Sweid, an Australian emergency physician who recently arrived in Gaza, described the aftermath of one massacre: “We have only been here for a few days, and the level of trauma I have seen here is unlike anything I have witnessed before.” British surgeon Dr. Victoria Rose reported from Nasser Medical Complex: “It’s absolute carnage. All the beds are full of people with gunshot wounds. We’ve had hundreds coming through the door.“
Before this genocide, Gaza was approaching self-sufficiency. Palestinians grew food in hothouses, maintained orchards, and even exported flour. Israel methodically destroyed every greenhouse, every warehouse, every manufacturing plant. They blocked the sea, preventing fishing. They turned a productive population into a starving one, then weaponised that starvation itself.
The moral bankruptcy extends beyond Israel’s government. A recent poll found that 82% of Israeli Jews support the forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, while 56% support expelling Palestinian citizens of Israel as well. Even more horrifying, nearly half expressed support for committing biblical-scale genocide against Palestinians, agreeing that the Israeli military should “reenact the story of the Israelites’ capture of Jericho” – a reference to the biblical slaughter of an entire city.
The betrayal of Gaza includes the empty promises of a ceasefire negotiated by Witkoff. The original terms, cautiously accepted by Hamas, included a phased truce, exchange of hostages, Israeli military withdrawal, and guarantees against renewed fighting. What was ultimately delivered bore little resemblance – no binding commitment to end the war, continued Israeli military control, and no clear path to reconstruction. Israel’s acceptance of these terms should have been the first warning: a country that rejected dozens of ceasefire initiatives suddenly embraced this deal because it demanded nothing of them.
Enough is Not Enough
As former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in Haaretz, “Enough is Enough.” Even a former Israeli leader who shares responsibility for decades of occupation, apartheid and mass murder fails to move American politicians, who parrot talking points about hostages as deflection from the systematic starvation of an entire population.
The international community’s response remains grossly inadequate. After 20 months of genocide, a group of nations, including European countries, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, finally issued a statement demanding that Israel allow humanitarian aid into Gaza and permit UN organisations to work independently. This belated awakening comes not from genuine moral outrage but from calculation – these governments see the writing on the wall, whether in terms of domestic political backlash or future legal accountability for complicity in genocide.
Meanwhile, a second Freedom Flotilla vessel attempts to break Israel’s blockade with humanitarian supplies and high-profile activists, including Greta Thunberg aboard. It stands as a damning indictment of our world order—this small boat carrying a handful of civilians cannot possibly feed two million systematically starved people, yet its presence illuminates the moral bankruptcy of powerful nations who remain complicit through inaction. When ordinary citizens must risk bombardment and naval assault from a nuclear-armed military to deliver basic necessities, we have entered the territory of absolute ethical collapse.
That these unarmed activists willingly sail toward almost certain interception by a state that has repeatedly demonstrated its willingness to kill international observers exposes not just Israel’s rogue status, but the hollow pretense of an “international community” that permits such atrocities to continue unimpeded.
The War Against Children
The killing of Palestinians at aid centers across Gaza is not a footnote in this war. It literally is the war – a war against children, against the fundamental right to eat, against the possibility of Palestinian existence. It is among the clearest evidence yet that Israel, backed by the United States, has transformed humanitarian infrastructure into a weapon against the people of Gaza.
The psychological toll compounds the physical suffering. Survivors now fear the aid itself. Where food trucks once offered the possibility of survival, they now invoke dread. Israel has effectively turned famine into psychological warfare.
This moment will never be forgotten. The record is clear and unambiguous. Israel’s genocide, America’s and Europe’s complicity, the rest of the world’s inadequate response – all will be judged by history. The term “Witkoff Massacre” will be remembered not just as a catastrophic event but as the embodiment of the West, where those claiming to offer aid instead delivered death.
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