Famine

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 265: Gazans Face ‘Catastrophic’ Food Insecurity

June 28, 2024 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Famine, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine

Israel’s war minister Yoav Gallant said at the conclusion of his top-level meetings in Washington that Israel does not want an all-out war with Lebanon and that it prefers the diplomatic route for a solution. However, he added that Israel can’t accept the presence of Hezbollah’s units at its northern border. Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the Biden administration was angry over Netanyahu’s public remarks about the U.S.’s withholding of the delivery of arms to Israel. According to reports, the White House told Israel that the delivery of arms would not be completed even after the end of Israel’s operations in Rafah, which Israel has announced to be nearly over.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 255: Netanyahu Dissolves War Cabinet

June 18, 2024 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Benjamin Netanyahu, Famine, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

On Monday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved the Israeli government war cabinet that was formed immediately following the October 7 attack, and that has been directing the war for nine months. Netanyahu’s move came a week after two key members of the war cabinet, Benny Gantz and Gadi Eizenkot, resigned in protest of Netanyahu’s leadership, calling for early elections. The formation of the war cabinet, which excluded Netanyahu’s governing coalition allies, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, was Gantz’s condition to join, back in October. Following Gantz and Eizenkot’s resignations, both Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, who are controversial to Israel’s western allies due to their explicitly racist rhetoric, have demanded to join the cabinet.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 241: Israel Contradicts Biden

June 4, 2024 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Ceasefire, Famine, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Joe Biden, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

The Gaza-based Palestinian health ministry announced that the remaining hospitals in the Gaza Strip received 268 slain Palestinians in Israeli airstrikes since Thursday, May 30, while 1207 others arrived wounded. Meanwhile, local media sources reported that in the past 24 hours, Israeli airstrikes and artillery shells continued to target Gaza City’s Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods. At least two children were reported killed on Sunday. In Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Civil Defense said that its teams recovered 70 dead bodies from the rubble left behind by Israeli forces after withdrawing from Jabalia refugee camp following a three-week ground invasion.

Call To Action: The ICSGP Denounces Israel’s Brutal Attacks On Rafah

May 30, 2024 the International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine, Popular Resistance. Resist! Campus Movement, Famine, Gaza, Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Palestine, Rafah

The International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine (ICSGP) abhors the brutal slaughter in recent days by the Israeli Occupation Forces of displaced Palestinians who had been living in tents in Rafah. This is a flagrant violation of the International Court of Justice’s May 24 order, at the request of South Africa, that Israel cease its operations there. Coming after nearly eight months of genocidal attacks, including induced famine, these massacres leave no room for doubt about Israel’s intent to wipe out the population of Gaza, even as it has intensified genocidal attacks in the West Bank.

$320 Million US Pier Collapses In Gaza, Drifts To Ashdod

May 28, 2024 Al Mayadeen, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Famine, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Rafah, United Nations (UN), US military

Part of the American naval pier in Gaza collapsed on Saturday as waves carried it toward Ashdod, according to Israeli media. In further detail, Israeli Channel 12 reported that strong waves swept away a section of the American floating pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip, heading towards the shores of Ashdod. The Israeli navy reportedly retrieved and reattached the section, as per the report. The US floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea has faced significant challenges since its creation on May 15, questioning its efficiency in alleviating the humanitarian crisis in the besieged Palestinian enclave.

USAID Whistleblowers Accuse Biden Of ‘Direct Complicity’ In Gaza Famine

May 16, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Famine, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Joe Biden, Palestine, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism, Whistleblowers

Current and former officials from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department say the White House has ignored months of internal warnings about the spread of famine in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to an in-depth investigation by the Independent. “I believe the US to be complicit in creating the conditions for famine. Not only has our response been woefully inadequate, but we’re actively responsible in large part for it,” a USAID employee told the British daily. Internal documents reviewed by the Independent show that staffers have repeatedly warned USAID administrator Samantha Power and other senior leaders about the intensifying crisis in Gaza “often to no avail.”

Israel Cries Foul Of South Africa’s Urgent Request To ICJ

March 21, 2024 Palestine Chronicle. Educate! Famine, Gaza, Genocide, Humanitarian Aid, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, South Africa

Israel has requested the International Court of Justice (ICJ) not to issue emergency orders for it to increase humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, describing South Africa’s request to do so as “morally repugnant”. In a legal filing to the Court made public on Monday, Israel accused South Africa of abusing both the Genocide Convention and the Court itself. “Much like South Africa’s Application that instituted the present proceedings, they are wholly unfounded in fact and law, morally repugnant, and represent an abuse both of the Genocide Convention and of the Court itself,” the filing said.

When Starvation Is A Weapon, The Harvest Is Shame

March 17, 2024 Kathy Kelly, World Beyond War. Resist! Famine, Genocide, Ireland, Israel, Palestine, Starvation

In a work entitled “Irish Famine 4,” Palestinian-American journalist and artist Sam Husseini combined grass and paint to commemorate a bitter time in Irish history when starving people died with their mouths stained green because, according to historian Christine Kinealy, their last meal was grass. Shamefully, British occupiers profited from exporting out of Ireland food crops so desperately needed. Over a seven year period, beginning in 1845, one million Irish people died from starvation and related diseases. It was a conscious mass killing.

Conquest, War, Famine, And Death Hit You Straight In The Heart

March 15, 2024 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Famine, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Joe Biden, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

On 4 March, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini presented his startling report on the situation in Gaza (Palestine) to the UN General Assembly. In just 150 days, Lazzarini said, Israeli forces have killed more than 30,000 Palestinians, nearly half of them children. Those who survive continue to face Israel’s attacks and are afflicted with the traumas of war. The four horsemen of the apocalypse described in the Bible’s Book of Revelation – Conquest, War, Famine, and Death – are now galloping from one end of Gaza to the other.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 154: Biden’s Maritime Aid Corridor To Gaza Slammed As ‘Unrealistic’

March 9, 2024 Anna Lekas Miller, Mondoweiss. Educate! Biden administration, Famine, Gaza, Genocide, International Women's Day, Israel, Joe Biden, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

U.S. President Joe Biden announced that he would build a “temporary pier” in Gaza to allow a maritime corridor to let humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip during last night’s State of the Union address. “A temporary pier will enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day.” But dozens of humanitarian aid and NGO representatives argue that this is neither practical nor ethical–particularly given how many aid trucks are waiting to get into Gaza at the Rafah crossing. “Where has the American conscience been for 153 days since the beginning of the war, as people in the Gaza Strip are under constant bombardment?”

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 152: Little Prospect Of Breakthrough In Ceasefire Talks

March 7, 2024 Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Mondoweiss. Educate! Canada, Ceasefire, Famine, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Wars and Militarism

Israeli authorities turned back 14 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to northern Gaza on Tuesday. This prompted the World Food Program (WFP) to resort to airdropping the aid with the help of the Jordanian Air Force, delivering aid to 20,000 people in northern Gaza. “WFP is determined to do whatever it takes to reach people in need. But to avert famine, we must have access by road,” the organization wrote on X. Aid convoys driving on Salah al-Din Street to northern Gaza have had to stop at an Israeli military checkpoint in Wadi Gaza, which splits the enclave into northern and southern territories.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 143: Gaza Famine Is ‘Man-Made’

February 27, 2024 Leila Warah, Mondoweiss. Educate! Famine, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Wars and Militarism

While Israel’s violent aggression on Gaza approaches the five-month mark, the situation in the besieged enclave deteriorates by the day as the population undergoes an Israeli-imposed famine as a result of the blockade. Following reports of a two-month-old baby starving to death on Friday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has said the high risk of malnutrition continues to increase, with one in six children in northern Gaza “severely malnourished.” “We continue to appeal for regular humanitarian access,” UNRWA said in a post on X.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 110: Israeli Forces Encircle Khan Younis

January 24, 2024 Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Mondoweiss. Educate! Famine, Gaza, Israel, Operation Al Aqsa Flood, Palestine

Starvation and hunger are spreading among half a million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as they facing rainy, cold weather and insufficient food due to the ongoing Israeli aggression since October. Some Palestinian families used whatever ingredients they had to feed their children, such as grinding fodder, which is hay or straw normally fed to cattle, to bake bread. “People need to make bread; sometimes they manage to make it [using fodder] and sometimes not. We are living a famine,” a Palestinian in Gaza told Al-Jazeera Arabic. “We live in a polluted condition. There is no fresh water, no food, no drink, no flour. This flour you see here was made from livestock fodder,” he said, showing a sack of fodder that contained insects and needed palming before being crushed.

The UN Just Declared It’s Highest-Level Warning Of A Famine In Gaza

December 27, 2023 The Canary. Educate! Famine, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, United Nations (UN)

In Gaza, 2.3 million people – half of whom are children – are facing an escalated and potentially fatal risk of hunger. The declaration comes from the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC), a food security framework used by the UN, food security and nutrition experts, and NGOs including Action Against Hunger. The latter says the UN declaration must be a turning point, as there have only been four declarations of famine in recent decades: South Sudan (2017); Somalia (2011); North Korea (1995), and Ethiopia (1984). In Gaza, more than 90% of the population is in crisis phase (3) or worse. In fact, more than 1.3 million people are in the emergency or catastrophe phase (4 and 5 respectively), while at least one in four households is facing acute catastrophic food insecurity conditions.

Ethiopia: The Tigray Famine Narrative Was A Total Fabrication

February 18, 2023 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Ethiopia, Famine, Media, Tigray, US Imperialism

Stephen Were Omamo served as Director of the World Food Program in Ethiopia from 2018 to 2021. From that viewpoint he saw the international community misrepresent facts on the ground in the two-year Ethiopian civil war in service to what he called the “good-guy TPLF vs. bad-guy Government story line that was already fully developed and circulating globally” shortly after the war began in November 2020. The US and its Western allies had designated Tigrayans and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) as the good guys, what Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman called “worthy victims” in Manufacturing Consent.

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