Is the answer really to stop sending aid to a million children in distress and for Europe to look the other way as Netanyahu and Trump proceed with the full-scale ethnic cleansing they’ve proudly announced with AI-generated videos?

I don’t have an answer, but there has to be some other option.

Food and water aid being controversial is a bit ridiculous to me.

AFAIK the usual counter point to this is "Hamas could decide to not buy weapons, instead buy water & food. But they don't". - I don't know what is more truthy, just mentioning it.

Must be damn good food and water

Saving 1-2 million people from genocide seems like a worthy cause for EU dollars.

We're saving ca 10 million people from the actual genocide the Arabs have been trying to perpetrate against Israel since at least 1948.

There is no genocide, attempted or not, in the other direction. In fact, the IDF has a non-combatant/combatant casualty ratio of around 1.2 : 1, which is by far the best (lowest) in the world. Typical is around 10:1.

What about the ethnic cleansing they are currently planning? That used to be considered a no-no, now I guess it's just fine.

It's really not that hard to achieve a casualty ratio of 1.2:1 if you consider groups like <1-year-old babies and patients on life support as 'active combatants'.