The head of the World Food Program, Cindy McCain, acknowledged the famine in Gaza in an interview on Meet the Press:
“What I can explain to you is – is that there is famine – full-blown famine – in the north, and it’s moving its way south,” she said.
McCain called for a ceasefire to allow for humanitarian relief to reach the population. That is what humanitarian agencies have been demanding for the last six months to no avail. All of them could see what would happen to the people of Gaza if the war was allowed to continue, and they have been shouting from the rooftops that famine was coming. This famine was the most readily foreseen and most easily prevented famine in decades, and that makes the shame of failing to stop it all the greater. The international response to these warnings has been pitiful, and the response from our government has been downright criminal.