https://nytimes.com/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-hunger
More than 90 percent of Palestinians in the territory say they have regularly gone without food for a whole day, according to the United Nations.
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.”
Eylon Levy, an Israeli government spokesman, contended that Israel did not stand in the way of humanitarian assistance and blamed Hamas, the Palestinian group that rules Gaza, for any shortages. He accused Hamas of seizing some of the aid for its own uses. He did not provide evidence, but Western and Arab officials have said that Hamas is known to have a large stockpile of supplies, including food, fuel and medicine.
The most they can hope for these days, she said in a recent telephone interview, is a can of peas, some cheese and an energy bar distributed as a family’s rations by the United Nations once a week in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza where they fled to in early December to escape Israeli bombardment farther north. It is not nearly enough to feed her family of seven.
“It’s a daily struggle,” said Ms. Zaiter, 37, whose children range in age from 9 months to 13 years. “You feel you are under pressure and hopeless, and you cannot provide anything.”
Israel’s war in Gaza has created a humanitarian catastrophe, with half of the population of about 2.2 million at risk of starvation and 90 percent saying that they regularly go without food for a whole day, the United Nations said in a recent report.
Very strange to me that anti-Israel voices can believe *both* that Hamas is gloriously defeating Israel in Gaza and that Israel is ruthlessly conducting genocide against a defenseless civilian population in Gaza.
@Sw1ngStatePaisleyDemocrat5mos5MO
My thoughts: it's an internal political issue in Israel which is nothing to do with religion. I don't believe they are the provokers of war but incidentally caused internal conflict that Hamas became opportunistic during Israel's weak moments.Much like IPV, they prey on weakness.
@ZealfulR3publicDemocrat5mos5MO
The Israeli response to 10/6 is predictably disproportionate they say. But I would argue there is no limit on response after what happened to innocent Israelis in October . Hamas must be ended. And many innocents will perish in that mission. It’s tragic, but there is no choice .
@L3gislatorBasmatiGreen5mos5MO
Sadly but it’s what the Jews want and the world is ruled by them including all the client regimes surrounding Palestine sitting back and watching this whole population of Muslims (mostly) starve to death !
Maybe if the $ sent to Gaza all these years was used to help the people, instead of Hamas and their war infrastructure, Gazans would be in this situation.
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