@jik I guess what I find hopeful in the piece is simply the suggestion that roughly sufficient (to prevent outright death by mass starvation) aid is in fact getting into Southern Gaza at least, where the vast majority of the population now is. I don't know whether that's accurate, but it's better than the impression I had before reading the piece. That doesn't justify any other atrocity, and my view is that Israel is making catastrophic moral and political decisions, for itself and others.