SourceTue, 19 Mar 2024 07:20 UTC
© SAID KHATIB / AFPChildren walk past the rubble of a collapsed building in Gaza, March 16, 2024.
A UN-backed report warns that mass death is imminent without an immediate ceasefire and food supplies
Famine conditions now exist in the northern part of Gaza, a UN monitor group warned on Monday. Around 300,000 people remain trapped in the area, following
months of Israeli bombardment that has left over 31,000 people dead.The UN-backed report also warns that
more than 70% of Gaza's population of 2.3 million faces "catastrophic hunger." The Integrated Food-Security Phase Classification (IPC) said that
mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and deliveries of food aid to the areas affected by the fighting.
More than a dozen children in Gaza, including newborn babies, have starved to death and many more are at risk from soaring malnutrition. UN aid agencies warned earlier in March that urgently-needed humanitarian aid is being blocked from entering the Palestinian enclave.
The IPC estimated that two out of every 10,000 people will die daily from starvation, malnutrition, and disease if not helped immediately."The actions needed to prevent famine require an immediate political decision for a ceasefire together with a significant and immediate increase in humanitarian and commercial access to the entire population of Gaza," the report said.
Israel has been criticized by its Western partners since it began launching retaliatory strikes against Hamas militants following their attack on Israel on October 7.
"In Gaza we are no longer on the brink of famine. We are in a state of famine," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said at the opening of a conference on humanitarian aid for Gaza in Brussels on Monday. He also accused Israel of "using starvation as a weapon of war."
Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded by saying, "Israel allows extensive humanitarian aid into Gaza," and told Borrell "to stop attacking Israel and recognize our right to self-defense against Hamas' crimes."Efforts to reach a truce between Hamas and Israel are ongoing, with no breakthrough so far as the hostilities continue. Heavy fighting erupted on Monday in and around Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital complex. The Israeli Army said it was combatting Hamas militants there and advised civilians to evacuate.
Comment:
Israel appears to keep bombing enough to create conditions that make the starvation and death of most of the remaining a matter or course, all the while claiming the need to defend itself and repeating that enough human aids gets through.
And what do the supporters of Israel do? Probably they follow the lead:
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War on Gaza: Israel's leftists quickly lost their compassion for Palestinians
The concept that the most the subject can aspire to is the master's recognition of his being human, a recognition that can be withheld as easily as it was given if the subject "disappoints", is the hallmark of the colonial situation.
In this situation, the master deems himself so superior to the subject that the latter should be thankful for every moment in which the master's grip on his throat remains loose, while any resistance to the ever-present threat of a chokehold is tantamount to ingratitude.
These are the same "leftists of the past" who, alongside their disappointment in the Palestinians, have also suddenly discovered the joys of embracing tribalism - as Tzufit Grant evidently has done.
Since 7 October, she says, she has wanted to walk all day through the streets and kiss Israelis: "I have become very Israeli, very Jewish."
Lamentably, disastrously, in today's Israel, this would seem to involve parting not only with the "humanitarian portion" of the brain, but with the brain itself.
And they said "never again"! Apparently it is easy to proclaim at a distance, in time and space, but when closer to a sore point in history, does it become more difficult and ambiguous as the mind filters the information attempting to uphold an idea that little has changed from before?
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The "Dahiya Doctrine" specifically calls for the deliberate targeting of civilian populations and civilian infrastructure for the specific purpose of causing suffering and severe distress throughout the targeted population. The goal was to simultaneously destroy any enemy in the targeted area, to intimidate the targeted population into turning on the militants (in the case Hezbollah), and to deter other population centers from supporting Hezbollah. The "Dahiya Doctrine" was used extensively against Gaza since 2008, killing thousands of civilians. In its definition and through its execution, the "Dahiya Doctrine" amounts to nothing less than state terrorism, which means that the Israeli military, through its implementation of this policy, has become a state sponsor of terrorism.
Perhaps the people in Gaza experience what will become more common:
The Globalist's SECRET Message!
For the completely clueless, the points that pop up again and again in the oligarchs' oratory are:
- Humanity is the enemy.
- We must reduce the population.
- Billions of commoners must die that we and our progeny may live.
That's it. It's right there in black and white in their major publications, security memoranda, white papers and speeches. Heck, it's even engraved in stone . . . or at least it used to be until some enterprising individuals turned that stone into rubble. The point is: there is no secret message. There's only a completely out-in-the-open one.
Only Mismanagement of Human Resources by the Aristocratic Kakistocracy of Human Excrement aka Freemasons.
It is a deliberate act of sabotage of the Human Race by a small group of selectives.
Who are they? Whom do they serve?
The answer is not to be found on this planet!