The UK Times reports on worsening famine conditions in Gaza. Those in northern Gaza are at greatest risk:
Barely any aid has reached the people in the north of Gaza, who are separated from the rest of the population by the fighting. Phone signals are cut off and large swathes of Gaza City, with its once-bustling beachfront restaurants, are destroyed.
No one knows how many people remain in the north, but charities estimate that it could be in the hundreds of thousands. They have nothing.
According to the report, food is so scarce that people are reduced to eating whatever they can find, even if it has spoiled. What little food that does exist is prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of people. Nursing mothers cannot produce milk for their babies. In just under three months, a population of more than two million people has been driven to the brink by the deliberate Israeli use of starvation as a weapon. The people of Gaza have been subjected to one of the most monstrous policies of collective punishment in recent memory. There is good reason to fear that a large percentage of the population will perish if conditions remain like this or worsen.
The New York Times also published a report this weekend on starvation in Gaza:
Arif Husain, chief economist at the World Food Program, said the humanitarian disaster in Gaza was among the worst he had ever seen. The territory appears to meet at least the first criteria of a famine, with 20 percent of the population facing an extreme lack of food, he said.
“I’ve been doing this for about 20 years,” Mr. Husain said. “I’ve been to pretty much any conflict, whether Yemen, whether it was South Sudan, northeast Nigeria, Ethiopia, you name it. And I have never seen anything like this, both in terms of its scale, its magnitude, but also at the pace that this has unfolded.”
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I am being the bloody Peace Chic, for days now… Hardly raised my GD voice… But, I will not sit here quietly, while all this shit is going on!
Hell NO!
These are truly Crimes Against Humanity… Everybody needs to SNAP out of it! And NOW!
Famine is devouring the people of Gaza. There is more food for Famine than there is food for the people. The people are its food. If Netanyahu could unleash flesh eating bacteria on the people, he’d do it and would have Biden’s blessing.
We are not going to lift a G-d D-mn finger to help the children in Palestine. We did not sign the The Convention on the Rights of the Child. So there, we will continue to about Palestinian children crushed under the rubble of bombed buildings, starved, having limbs amputated, becoming orphans, because to the “indispensable nation”, children in Palestine have no rights to our administration.
Elon Musk said after visiting the site were Palestinians stormed into occupied Palestine, he said those who killed civilians need to be killed, while speaking to the Israeli President. Mr. Musk, your comment seems to be akin to ambulance chasing attorneys, concern for one side, the side were the major bucks will further enrich you, did most of the advertisers return? President Kennedy said “ ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. I had hoped that X indicated no longer a slave, but truly free to Xpress the truth the whole truth.
WE are the people of PEACE in the Prophecies of Nostradamus. If WE do NOT avert further war and bloodshed, it WILL be the END OF ALL OF US.
Plain and simple: WE MUST AVERT A THIRD WORLD WAR.
It will be NUCLEAR and TOTALLY DESTRUCTIVE.
END of STORY.