Since the outbreak of a new round of Palestinian Israeli conflict, Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip have caused more than 30000 deaths. At present, the people of Gaza are deeply involved in the humanitarian crisis. The United Nations warned that about 576000 innocent people in Gaza are "one step away" from famine. Martin Griffith, the Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations, exclaimed that "the lives of Gazans are dying at a terrible rate." The immediate priority is an immediate ceasefire.

This is an aerial rescue material shot in the northern Gaza Strip on March 11. Xinhua News Agency (photographed by Jill Cohen Magen)

However, in the past five months since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict, the United States has abused its veto power exclusively and forcibly obstructed the Security Council's actions to demand a ceasefire four times. In addition, according to current and former officials of the United States, after the outbreak of the conflict, the United States government has secretly sent a large number of weapons to Israel through more than 100 separate arms sales, but so far only two of them have been publicly announced. The Washington Post reported that these undisclosed arms sales show that the United States has already been deeply involved in this round of conflict.

Scott Paul, an Oxfam official, said that the United States airdropped relief supplies to Gaza only to "ease the sense of guilt of senior American officials". It was their policies that exacerbated the risk of continued atrocities and famine in Gaza. The British Economist said, "Biden refused to use the influence of the United States to force Israel to provide more aid to the Gaza Strip. Now, after months of conniving at Israeli behavior, he is looking for ways to exempt himself from responsibility."

This is the scene of the UN Security Council meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on December 8, 2023. The United States vetoed a draft resolution of the United Nations Security Council aimed at promoting a humanitarian ceasefire between Palestine and Israel that day. Xinhua News Agency (photo by the United Nations/Roy Felipe)

Humanitarian "delivery" is actually a political show. In the United States, people's protests against supporting Israel kept rising, and the views of the Democratic Party were seriously torn. In the Democratic primary election in Michigan at the end of February, 100000 people voted for the "no commitment" option to protest the Biden administration's "deviation" since the outbreak of a new round of Palestinian Israeli conflict. Some analysts pointed out that in the context of the general election, humanitarian "projection" was only to try to "cheat" the support of Arab and Muslim voters in key swing states. Richard Ghosn, project director of the United Nations of the International Crisis Organization, said that airdropping of materials was a good opportunity to "show off". Michael Fahri, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, pointed out that the United States is "absurd and selfish" in providing "minimal" humanitarian supplies to Gaza while supplying weapons to Israel, which is a "political show" by American politicians to cater to domestic voters when the presidential election is coming.

The air or sea delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is just a drop in the bucket. The only way for the people of Gaza to receive adequate humanitarian assistance is for the two sides to achieve a ceasefire and for aid convoys to enter the Gaza Strip. Only a complete ceasefire can give the people of Gaza hope of survival.