Investigating Israel’s Aid Controls in Gaza: Security or Strategic Suppression?

As the conflict in Gaza endures, a critical question emerges for America and its allies: Is Israel's tightening grip on humanitarian aid a necessary security measure or a covert maneuver to politicize assistance and suppress Palestinian statehood efforts? When Does Security Cross into Weaponization? More than 100 prominent nonprofit organizations, including Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, and CARE, have loudly objected to Israeli regulations imposed earlier this year that demand detailed donor and staff disclosures from aid groups operating in Gaza and the West Bank. These measures threaten to transform independent humanitarian actors into political pawns beholden to Israel’s military agenda....