More than half a year into Israel’s annihilatory campaign in Gaza, the besieged enclave’s residents face mass death through famine and disease. Without a ceasefire, Gaza’s humanitarian disasters can only worsen while Israel’s war machine continues making the Strip even more of an uninhabitable territory. Throughout much of the past six months, the Biden administration has maintained that the White House can’t do much to change Israeli actions in Gaza. On 26 March, the US Department of State’s spokesperson Matthew Miller asserted that Washington “can’t dictate” to Israel because it is a “sovere…