His staff found not a single instance, neither during wartime nor the previous nineteen years of “concentration camp Gaza.”
Jerusalem, February 21 – A legislator who objects to his country’s methods in suppressing and destroying the terrorist group that invaded on October 7 and perpetrated the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust announced today he would refrain from eating, in protest against the resulting deprivations visited upon the terrorist-run territory from which the invasion was conducted, with the exercise extending as many twenty-four-hour periods as minors have perished in that territory since the suppression operations began. By evening, he had partaken of a meal already, since no such malnutrition fatalities could be documented.
MK Ahmad Tibi convened a press conference this afternoon to proclaim a hunger strike in solidarity with the children dying of starvation in Gaza under Israeli siege. “The inhumane collective punishment of innocent Palestinians must not continue,” he declared. “I hereby embark on a hunger strike. I will fast one whole day for each child who has perished because of the unlawful, brutal blockade of vital supplies.”
At dinnertime, however, Tibi was seen downing a meal of lamb, flatbread, and vegetables. Initial assessments of his behavior invoked the infamous “hunger strike” led by imprisoned arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti several years ago, when security camera footage showed the man sneaking a chocolate-coated wafer in his cell. However, closer investigation revealed that Tibi and his staff had simply found not a single instance of child starvation in Gaza, neither during the current, stricter wartime closure, nor during the nineteen years previous that Israel had interdicted military and dual-use items bound for the territory and thus earned criticism as “starving” Palestinians and maintaining “the world’s largest open-air prison and “concentration camp Gaza.”
“It’s the thought that counts,” explained an aide to the lawmaker. “The expression of solidarity. Of course we realize there are dozens, sometimes hundreds, of aid trucks entering Gaza from Israel every day. We know that if there is deprivation, it’s only because Hamas commandeers the aid and controls all the aid organizations operating in the territory, and hoards the supplies for its people and supporters. But here, I think, the analogy to Mr. Barghouti actually holds: for him, it was the declaration, the symbolism, the display and rhetoric, rather than the substance, which no one was supposed to see. Here, too, we knew going in that no one had died of starvation in Gaza. It was the declarative, performative side of things that we were aiming to achieve. Solidarity is very important.”
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