Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

In the early hours of June 11, before sunrise, 19-year-old Hatem Shaldan and his brother Hamza, 23, went to wait for aid trucks near the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip. They hoped to return with a bag of white flour for their family of five. Instead, Hamza returned with his younger brother’s body wrapped in a white burial shroud. 

The Shaldan family had lived virtually without food for nearly two months due to Israel’s blockade, crammed into a…