Humanitarian Aid as a Tool of Domination: The implications of distribution practices on social cohesion, human dignity, and self-agency in the Gaza Strip

At the heart of the protracted humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, and more than twenty-two months since the outbreak of the war on October 7, 2023, humanitarian aid has become an integral part of the daily landscape for the population of the Strip, not only because of the magnitude of the humanitarian disaster resulting from the blockade, military operations, demolitions, destruction and displacement, but also because more than two-thirds of the population depend on it as the main source of food and basic needs, this growing dependence has made aid transform from short-term emergency interventions into a structural element of everyday survival, with the lives of individuals and families tied directly to the continuity or disruption of aid flows.

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