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
Tags: engineered famine
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.
Blaming the Israeli ‘far right’ lets a genocidal society off the hook
Politicians and media are narrowly aiming their criticisms at Netanyahu’s far-right ruling coalition – but the problem runs much deeper.
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
Egypt’s Sisi calls Israel’s war, starvation campaign in Gaza a ‘systematic genocide’
In a press conference, Egyptian president Sisi said Israel’s war has long since ‘surpassed any logic or justification, and has become a war of starvation and genocide’.
‘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.
Mainstream media largely sidelined Gaza starvation story, until it couldn’t
Coverage of Israel’s starvation of Gaza was sparse for months; even now, most reporting is skewed away from Israel’s culpability.
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.
Christian GHF boss gets free hand to spread his own ‘disinformation’
The pro-Israel Hudson Institute hosted Johnnie Moore (the Chair of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) this week, but didn’t bother to ask him about the 1000 deaths at his Gaza sites. So I asked him myself.
The Information Warfare Consortium Shaping Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s PR Offensive
As the famine in Gaza becomes undeniable, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has relied on strategic communications specialists to reassign blame and push a narrative of success.