The Hill: In Gaza, Israel has turned food aid into a death trap

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by Hani Almadhoun, opinion contributor - 09/02/25 11:30 AM ET 

A Palestinian boy sits on the ground as he waits near a food distribution kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

 

My cousin Sameeh Mohamad Hilmi Almadhoun was just 18 when an Israeli soldier allegedly killed him at an aid site in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. He was a young man searching for food, a simple act that became his death sentence.

The truth is far more devastating than a simple headline: Israel has turned aid in Gaza into a lure for death.

Sameeh had already lost nearly everything. An Israeli strike in northern Gaza killed his parents and three siblings, some of whom had special needs. Driven by hunger, he left the north in search of a meal — without his surviving family knowing he had even gone. 

He walked more than six miles to reach one of the four aid sites run by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation near Khan Younis and chose to wait overnight so he could be first in line in the morning. 

That decision became his death sentence. Sameeh was one of more than 1,400 Palestinians killed at aid sites across Gaza. 

We discovered his death the way too many Palestinian families do: through a grainy photo of an unidentified body circulating on Telegram. My sister, Chef Samah — who runs a soup kitchen on the Gaza pier, now a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians — recognized him and quickly reached out to our mother. 

That recognition was a form of grief too heavy to bear. Sameeh’s grandmother, who suffers from chronic chest pain, has already buried 10 of her children and grandchildren, all killed by the Israeli military in northern Gaza during this ongoing nightmare... READ MORE  https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5480646-aid-turned-death-trap-gaza/

"If the U.S. had held Israel accountable for the killing of other Americans like Rachel Corrie or Shireen Abu Akleh, perhaps Israeli soldiers would not feel so emboldened to kill Americans, and other civilians, today." Hamad Ali in The Hill 12/14/24

American human rights activist, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, was shot in the head and killed by an Israeli soldier on Sept. 6, 2024, while she was peacefully standing under an olive tree in the occupied West Bank.

 There is a long history of Israeli soldiers unlawfully killing U.S. citizens with impunity, like the renowned Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh ...

Why isn’t Israel being held accountable for killing my wife and other innocents?

by Hamid Ali, opinion contributor  - 12/14/24

What do you do with the clothes your wife was wearing when she was killed, now stained with her blood? How do you preserve them as evidence for an investigation that may never happen? What else can you do when your government has given no indication that it will hold her killer — a soldier in the army of a close ally — accountable, despite three months of daily efforts to get basic answers?  

My wife, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, was shot in the head and killed by an Israeli soldier on Sept. 6, 2024, while peacefully standing under an olive tree in the occupied West Bank. Although the Biden administration has described her death as unprovoked and unjustified, it has yet to apply adequate pressure on Israel to seek justice for the killing of one of its citizens....  READ MORE   https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5039207-aisenur-ezgi-eygi-killed-israel/

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Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat to meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday

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By Julian Pecquet - 02/20/13 05:30 PM ET

John Kerry is meeting with the Palestinians' chief peace negotiator on Thursday for the first time since taking over as secretary of State.

Saeb Erekat will lead a delegation that's expected to urge Kerry to press President Obama to present his own peace initiative when he makes his first presidential visit to Israel and the West Bank next month, Israel's Haaretz reports. The White House has sought to downplay expectations ahead of Obama's trip, but the Palestinians are likely to press him for more engagement after sharply criticizing the administration's failure to revive the stalled peace process during Obama's first term.

“My understanding is these are consultations very much in keeping with the planning for the president’s trip,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

The visit comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed renewed interest in peace talks following his conservative party's drubbing during recent elections. This week, he announced that former opposition leader and foreign minister Tzipi Livni would join his government and lead peace talks with the Palestinians.

Kerry has made reviving talks toward a two-state solution an early priority of his term in office, calling both Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas the weekend before he took office. Negotiations have been on ice for the past three years because of disagreements surrounding Israeli settlement activity and the borders of a future Palestinian state.

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