Trump's cabinet is a recipe for all-out Middle East war

Scenes like these have become so commonplace, they barely register: a group of men carrying sacks of flour are mown down where they stand by an Israeli strike, a massacre whose only purpose is to enforce mass starvation.

To publish unblurred photographs of this massacre is to risk having the content banned on social media websites, so I will describe the scene in words.

A line of flour and body parts stretches into the distance of northern Rafah. An Israeli air strike had struck a tuk-tuk vehicle near an aid distribution point in the Miraj area.

Seven bodies lie sprawled in various poses of sudden death, although we know that a total of 11 were killed. In the foreground, one man lies on top of another, red ribbons of blood stretching from the brains of the man beneath.

Behind him lies a man on his side. Rivulets of blood stretch away from him too. His clothes are covered in white dust, for behind him are the scattered remains of the sack of flour he was carrying. 

A horse and cart plods across. A boy walks away. Bystanders look on stunned, not knowing what to do. Flour is precious. Human life is not. 

As this was happening, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken let it be known that he was “happy with the number of aid trucks Israel was letting in”, and would not apply sanctions as his country had threatened to on 13 October.

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