Expert likens Israeli-run Gaza aid sites to Squid Game

Neve Gordon*, Published by Aljazeera
Aug 2, 2025

Neve Gordon, from London-based Queen Mary University, says the Israeli-run GHF “is not a humanitarian organisation; this is a famine profiteering organisation”.

“The UN has 400 sites through which it distributes food. This organisation put up four sites. It put them within zones that are in the midst of the conflict. And what we have been witnessing is a kind of Squid Game or Hunger Game, where people that are starving are approaching the food and are being shot down like prey,” he told Al Jazeera from London.

“This is clearly not about providing humanitarian aid but about providing camouflage for Israel so it can continue its onslaught on Gaza.”

Gordon added that civil society in the United States and Europe is seeing through television and Al Jazeera’s reporting what’s going on in Gaza and is outraged.

“But it’s our leaders who talk the talk but have double standards and are unwilling to sanction Israel, put pressure on Israel. And instead continue to arm Israel as it carried out this genocide,” he said.

“We need to start thinking how our leaders here in London, throughout Europe and the United States are actually complicit with this genocide and starvation. And bring them to court, if not the ICC [International Criminal Court], then through universal jurisdiction in local courts.”

*Professor Neve Gordon is a distinguished scholar of international humanitarian law and human rights at Queen Mary University of London

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