This article examines how the Israeli government engineered humanitarianism in Gaza since the 2005 withdrawal, transforming it into a biopolitical regime of containment and an instrument of war. Drawing on the work of Eyal Weizman and Michel Agier, the article argues that the resulting matrix of control set the stage for starvation crimes to become a modality of genocide. It becomes clear that Israel’s humanitarian management functioned as an occupation strategy that sustained basic survival while systematically obstructing economic development, deliberately producing a state of Continue reading → Continue reading →