- 29 Feb 2024 11:36
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"These children are not suffering from drought or crop failure or some other natural disaster. Their hunger is a man-made catastrophe. The Israeli government has slowed and even prevented food aid from entering the besieged Gaza Strip. Even when trucks do get through, Israeli bombardment and, more recently, the growing desperation of hungry mobs have turned food distribution into an arduous and sometimes deadly endeavor.
“Such a decline in a population’s nutritional status in three months is unprecedented globally,” UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the U.N. World Food Program said in reporting the latest grim statistics last week.
We should not pretend these deaths were inevitable. All of this we already knew: Palestinian residents of Gaza have been reduced to eating grass. They drink fetid water. Grains meant for animal feed are pulverized into makeshift flour, but even that lowly sustenance has been running out. Palestinian starvation has been documented and reported. We knew.
The ominous absurdity of the situation is impossible to overstate. A freighter with food bound for Gaza, enough to feed more than one million people, languished for weeks at the Israeli port of Ashdod because Israeli customs authorities refused to process the food."
It takes time to ramp up aid at that level, and Israel is still blocking most aid. So far, my prediction of Israel killing 100 to 200 times as many is going as predicted. It shouldn't be long now before disease breaks out. War, famine, disease, Israel does it all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/opinion/gaza-israel-palestinians-starvation.html
“Such a decline in a population’s nutritional status in three months is unprecedented globally,” UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the U.N. World Food Program said in reporting the latest grim statistics last week.
We should not pretend these deaths were inevitable. All of this we already knew: Palestinian residents of Gaza have been reduced to eating grass. They drink fetid water. Grains meant for animal feed are pulverized into makeshift flour, but even that lowly sustenance has been running out. Palestinian starvation has been documented and reported. We knew.
The ominous absurdity of the situation is impossible to overstate. A freighter with food bound for Gaza, enough to feed more than one million people, languished for weeks at the Israeli port of Ashdod because Israeli customs authorities refused to process the food."
It takes time to ramp up aid at that level, and Israel is still blocking most aid. So far, my prediction of Israel killing 100 to 200 times as many is going as predicted. It shouldn't be long now before disease breaks out. War, famine, disease, Israel does it all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/opinion/gaza-israel-palestinians-starvation.html
Facts have a well known liberal bias