The International Rescue Committee’s Bob Kitchen unpacks how Israel’s war and aid restrictions, not food shortage, are driving Gaza’s hunger crisis.
“A Purely Manmade Famine”: How Israel is Starving Gaza
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Israel’s assassination of beloved journalist “a moral scar on our shared humanity” – War on Gaza Day 674
Israeli forces kill 52 Palestinians in Gaza, including 26 aid seekers; at least 222 have died of starvation; Israel kills Anas al-Sharif and colleagues; Israel bombed journalist tent hours after Netanyahu said he would let foreign media in; Israel’s arms industry thrives on genocide; UK mass arrests
Israel Is Beginning To Choke On Its Own Lies
Netanyahu has confirmed reports that Israel plans an extreme escalation in Gaza, which will entail the total military occupation of the entire enclave and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, which the Israeli spin machine has termed “voluntary migration”.
Israel has always used food as a weapon against Palestinians
The deliberate starvation of Gaza is part of a long history of Israel weaponising food and water to control, subjugate, and, ultimately, displace Palestinians.
Israel is losing the US front
The problem for Israel is that the harder they go, the more they intensify the sense of alienation in America, the one country whose public sentiments are existential for the Jewish state.
Only 1.5% of cropland, 3% of animal wealth left in Gaza
Israel has continued to target farmland in the once-abundant Gaza Strip, and wiped out most livestock and working animals – the last means of transport for many amid severe food shortages and limited public mobility
I saw many atrocities as a senior UN aid official in Gaza. Now Israeli authorities are trying to silence us.
I witnessed devastated hospitals, mass graves, bodies eaten by dogs. After speaking out about the genocide occurring, I discovered my visa will not be renewed.
‘She’s disappearing in front of me’: Gaza’s children are the most vulnerable victims of Israeli-imposed starvation
In just 24 hours, five more people died of starvation. The total number of recorded deaths from hunger in Gaza has reached 188, including at least 94 children.
The Cruelty and Speciousness of Bret Stephens’ Denial of Genocide
Bret Stephens wields “unprecedented power over the editorial board” as the Zionist gatekeeper at the New York Times. This is an affront to the freedom of its journalists and the paper’s institutional integrity.
Amazon Labor Union Leader and Flotilla Crew Member Chris Smalls Released From Israeli Prison
American labor activist Chris Smalls was released from Israeli imprisonment on July 31 after being assaulted by soldiers who abducted him and the rest of the crew of a ship headed to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid on July 26.