Tags: engineered famine

‘Every Day, We’re Forced to Choose Who Gets Treatment’: Malnutrition Cases Outpace Gaza’s Health System

Gaza’s hospitals and health workers have been overwhelmed and unable to meet even the most basic medical needs in the past year.
As malnutrition cases rise among children, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers, one hospital volunteer says: ‘This is not medicine. This is survival’

Israel blocking outside journalists from Gaza doesn’t help its cause

The deaths of five journalists this week in an Israeli airstrike, while they were reporting from the supposedly safe confines of a hospital in southern Gaza, underscored how deadly the 22-month conflict has been for those trying to report about what is happening on the ground.

‘Starvation Is Everywhere’: Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose the Scale of the Horror

In recent weeks, Israeli journalists spoke by video with doctors around the Gaza Strip. Through virtual tours of medical facilities, they sought to document the situation in which thousands of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. What they saw was of catastrophic proportions.