As the risk of famine spreads across Gaza, an influential network of Israeli government defenders has emerged to tell you that none of this is happening at all.
The desperation of Gaza famine denialism
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Israel attacks make over 90 percent of Gaza’s agricultural land ‘unusable’
The once-fertile farm lands of Gaza, especially along the eastern border, have been reduced to barren wastelands by Israeli military operations. Fields & greenhouses, once teeming with life, have been destroyed, pushing Gaza’s agricultural sector to the brink of collapse
Israel pushes Gaza to the verge of famine – War on Gaza Day 569
“Full-scale famine conditions” right around the corner; Gaza authorities say Israel is deliberately killing civilians; Netanyahu calls security chief ‘liar’; Israeli settler violence; UNRWA ban contested in Int’l Court of Justice; universities get tough on Trump – but with “the Palestine Exception”
World Food Program runs out of food – War on Gaza Day 567
Nothing to eat, nowhere to hide for Gaza’s population; Trump claims he pushed Netanyahu to end siege; Israel receives 3 more F-35 fighter jets; Dem voters overwhelmingly want conditions placed on military aid to Israel; US restores legal status of hundreds of students after abruptly revoking visas
West Bank faces massive Israeli attack, as Gaza bleeds – Day 326
Massive Israeli raid enters second day, US has no comment; Israeli drone strike kills 13-year-old and 17-year-old Palestinian brothers in WB; Israel admits to response failure in recent settler attack; strikes on Gaza continue, as Israel withholds necessities; Israeli forces target World Food Program vehicle; satellite imagery shows vast destruction of Rafah; US sanctions a few more settlers; Israeli gang rape alleged perp is TV star; possible religious war looms over Al Aqsa, as Israel plans to fund settler visits; Namibia adheres to Genocide Convention; more.
Israel’s latest offensives unleash ‘hell’ in Gaza, aid groups say
Fighting in the north and south has deepened Gaza’s humanitarian crisis and reversed recent gains by aid groups in staving off starvation and disease.
$320 million Gaza pier has not delivered any aid to people of Gaza – Day 228
Norway, Ireland, Spain to recognize Palestinian statehood; after $320 million and over 2 months, US has not gotten any aid to Gazan families; Israel confiscates, then returns camera equipment to AP; 8 Palestinians killed in West Bank; Israeli forces telling settlers where to attack humanitarian aid trucks; Biden admin showing some hostility on Netanyahu war strategy; Arab Americans told a Palestinian state would result in world hunger
Over 100,000 Gazans dead, injured, or missing and presumed dead – Day 119
US has no plans to reduce arms shipments to Israel, rebuffs “immediate ceasefire,” prefers to wait for negotiated ceasefire – as Israel prepares to attack Rafah, where half of Gazans are now sheltering; meanwhile; half of Americans say Israel has “gone too far”; Rafah is “a pressure cooker of despair, and we fear for what comes next”; World Food Program still struggling against Israel’s restrictions on aid; 800 Western officials criticize Western policy toward Gaza, Israel;