Starvation

International Coalition To Stop Genocide In Palestine Demands Full Funding Of UNRWA

February 5, 2024 the International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine, Popular Resistance. Resist! Accountability, Gaza, Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Palestine, South Africa, Starvation, UNRWA

On January 26, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) released its ruling in the case of South Africa v. Israel in which the court found there was sufficient evidence to support South Africa’s allegations of genocide against the Palestinian people (see our previous press release for more details) and rejected Israel’s claim to be acting in ‘self-defense’. The World Court ordered the state of Israel to “take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of” acts of genocide, including deaths, harm to mental and physical health and conditions that threaten the well-being of the Palestinian people, in effect, an order for a ceasefire.

US Admits It Hasn’t Verified Israel’s UNRWA Claims, Media Ignores It

February 4, 2024 Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, Humanitarian Aid, Israel, Joe Biden, Starvation, UNRWA

In the latest demonstration of the boundless cruelty of U.S. President Joe Biden and his despicable administration, they have turned the backbone of what little aid Palestinians in Gaza receive into a political football, to be toyed with and batted around while jeopardizing that support for people who are already near the edge of what any human, however brave, can possibly endure. It’s the latest in what feels like an eternal cycle of the United States and Israel beating up on the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for political gain. There have been many hearings on Capitol Hill over the years bashing UNRWA and calling for either a complete structural overhaul of the agency or its dismantlement and absorption into the larger United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

UNRWA Saves Palestinian Lives; Save UNRWA

February 2, 2024 Meena M., CODEPINK. Resist! Congress, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Starvation, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)

Since its establishment in 1950, UNRWA has stood as the cornerstone of Palestinian healthcare, delivering essential services such as primary care clinics for basic health needs, assistance in accessing advanced medical treatment care at hospitals, implementing nutritional aid programs, and organizing environmental health initiatives across occupied Palestinian territories and refugee camps. UNRWA’s impact is further amplified by offering education to all individuals in need. Today, a substantial 5.9 million refugees benefit from the resources offered by the organization. In recent weeks, serious allegations against UNRWA have stirred controversy, prompting scrutiny over its operations.

An Anniversary The West Would Rather Forget

January 27, 2024 M. K. Bhadrakumar, Consortium News. Educate! Germany, History, Nazis, Russia, Sanctions, Starvation, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism, WWII

An epochal anniversary from the annals of modern history on Saturday remains a living memory for the Russian people. The Siege of Leningrad, arguably the most gruesome episode of the Second World War, which lasted for 900 days, was finally broken by the Soviet Red Army on Jan. 27, 1944, 80 years ago. The siege endured by more than 3 million people, of whom nearly one half died, most of them in the first six months when the temperature fell to 30° below zero. It was an apocalyptic event. Civilians died from starvation, disease and cold. Yet it was a heroic victory. Leningraders never tried to surrender even though food rations were reduced to a few slices of bread mixed with sawdust, and the inhabitants ate glue, rats — and even each other — while the city went without water, electricity, fuel or transportation and was being shelled daily.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 93: Israel Surpasses Three Months Of Gaza Bombing Campaign

January 7, 2024 Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Mondoweiss. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Press Freedom, Starvation, War crimes, Wars and Militarism

Israel’s bombardment and aggression in the Gaza Strip has been ongoing for three months and is about to enter its fourth, in which tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, injured, or buried under the rubble. In the past 24 hours, Israeli forces committed 12 massacres, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, killing 112 Palestinians and injuring 250 others. Israeli forces bombed the house of the Abu Alba family in northern Gaza’s Al-Falujah area, killing 20 people and wounding dozens while pummelling Jabalia refugee camp. Al-Jazeera reported that Hamza Al-Dahdouh, a journalist and the son of Al-Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh, was killed on Sunday morning in an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis, south of the Strip.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 24: Israel Enters Second Phase Of Its War

October 30, 2023 Leila Warah, Mondoweiss. Educate! Gaza, Genocide, Health Care, Israel, Operation Al Aqsa Flood, Starvation, War crimes

On Monday afternoon, Israel began the second phase of its war on Gaza, which continues to unfold after Israeli bombardment continued from Sunday night and into Monday morning, reportedly focusing on the north of the Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces have attempted to advance. The bombardment killed dozens of people. Both Hamas and Israel reported Israeli army tanks approaching the outskirts of Gaza City, where witnesses told AFP they blocked an essential road that links the north of the Gaza Strip to the south. Similarly, Al Jazeera reported that Israeli tanks are dividing Gaza into two parts after their incursion towards Salah al-Din Street, a vertical road running through Gaza.

‘Operation Al Aqsa Flood’ Day 20: Israel Using Starvation As A Weapon

October 27, 2023 Leila Warah, Mondoweiss. Educate! Gaza, Israeli Occupation, Journalists, Press Freedom, Starvation, War crimes, Wars and Militarism

Gaza’s population of over 2 million, which continues to be carpet bombed, is still being denied fuel, clean water, and adequate food supply by Israel’s ongoing siege on the enclave. The situation is “horrific” as millions are being “collectively punished in full view of the world,” says Oxfam, a British charity focused on alleviating global poverty. “It’s estimated that only three liters of clean water are now available per person. The UN said a minimum of 15 liters a day is essential for people in the most acute humanitarian emergencies as a bare minimum,” they stated.

Israel Is Using Starvation As A Weapon Of War Against Palestinian People

October 13, 2023 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Educate! Collective Punishment, Gaza, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Starvation, War crimes

After Hamas launched more than 2,000 missiles from Gaza and sent hundreds of fighters into Israel on October 7, killing hundreds of civilians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on Hamas. But Israel’s retaliation, including massive bombing from the land, air and sea, and its collective punishment of Gazans — denying them food, water, electricity and gas — reveals that Netanyahu has actually declared war on the Palestinian people, especially those in Gaza. Israeli warplanes are conducting indiscriminate bombings throughout Gaza, targeting homes, schools, hospitals, mosques and civilian buildings.

Hunger Strike: Yemeni People Are Being Starved

May 8, 2021 Loretta Graceffo, Waging Nonviolence. Resist! Hunger Strike, Starvation, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

During the early days of the war, when Iman Saleh called her family in Yemen, they would lie to reassure her they were safe. “They would always say, ‘Don’t worry, it’s happening far from us,’” Saleh said. “It felt like I was becoming a burden to them, because now they were trying to make me feel better, on top of trying to survive.” Now, when Saleh calls her family in Yemen, she simply asks how their day is going. For the past six years, the 26-year-old organizer from Detroit has struggled with survivor’s guilt, watching her homeland ravaged by a war between the U.S.-backed Saudi coalition and the Houthi rebels. As a founding member of the Detroit-based Yemeni Liberation Movement, Saleh works to educate and mobilize the Yemeni diaspora for an end to the war.

Yemen: US Grants Approval For Genocide

June 14, 2018 Moon of Alabama. Educate! Saudi Arabia, Starvation, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

The genocide in Yemen is going to start tomorrow. Eight million are already on the brink of starvation. Eighteen out of twenty-six million Yemenis live in the mountainous heartlands (green) which are under control of the Houthi and their allies. They are surrounded by Saudi and U.A.E. forces and their mercenaries. There is little agriculture. The only supply line from the outside world will soon be cut off. The people will starve.

At Every Door

July 23, 2017 Kathy Kelly, www.dissidentvoice.org Educate! Saudi Arabia, Starvation, Wars and Militarism, Yemen

By Kathy Kelly for Dissident Voice. On July 18, 2017, at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing focused on “The Four Famines: Root Causes and a Multilateral Action Plan,” Republican Senator Todd Young, a former Marine, asked officials present if ongoing war in Yemen could fail to exacerbate the catastrophe developing there – one of four countries, along with Southern Sudan, Nigeria, and Somalia, set to collectively lose 20 million people this year, one third the death toll of WWII, from conflict-driven famine. Yemen is being bombarded and blockaded, using US-supplied weapons and vehicles, by a local coalition marshaled by U.S. client state Saudi Arabia. Yemen’s near-famine conditions, with attendant cholera outbreak, are so dire that in Yemen it is estimated a child dies every 10 minutes of preventable disease.

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