Another famine, another use of starvation as a weapon of war. Yet again, it's the children who suffer first.
"Current IPC hunger projections suggest the majority of Tigray is experiencing “emergency” levels of hunger, with predictions that “some households will likely face ‘catastrophe/famine’ by July”.
"Last week #Ireland announced it would intervene in South Africa’s landmark international court of justice case against #Israel by attempting to widen the definition of #genocide to include blocking aid."
“Clearly an entire population is being impacted here not just through the #bombing but through #starvation. We’ve experienced #famine, we know what it’s like in our psyche”
"[…] Ireland’s colonial history has predisposed it to back the underdog."
People in northern Gaza are forced to survive on 245 calories a day
“Israel is making deliberate choices to starve civilians. Imagine what it is like, not only to be trying to survive on 245 calories day in, day out, but also having to watch your children or elderly relatives do the same. All whilst displaced … and under the constant threat of drones and bombs.”
Amitabh Behar, Oxfam International executive director
Children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says, citing a WHO team that visited two hospitals.
Famine is imminent and likely to occur by May in northern Gaza and could spread across the enclave by July, the Integrated Food-Security Phase Classification says.
People in northern Gaza are forced to survive on 245 calories a day.
I don't know why I still care about this society at all.
This organization was "featured" in the TROM II documentary. They are doing a fantastic work - they feed the ones that need to be fed. That's all they do. And now 7 of their volunteers systematically murdered by the tribe of Israel. (source)
Russia destroying big chunks of Ukraine, Israel leveling Gaza, and I bet Trump will become president again. How's China doing? Still enslaving the Uyghurs? Navalny dead?
Fucking terrible world.
Trying to stay away from these sort of news, but it is hard to. They are everywhere.
I'll try to reorganize my brain this month and star to film for the new TROM video series. Will see how that works ;).
Says "Their work was based on the simple belief that food is a universal human right. It is not conditional on being good or bad, rich or poor, left or right. We do not ask what religion you belong to. We just ask how many meals you need."
Then reminds us of the millions of meals he delivered to displaced & distraught Israeli citizens after Oct 7 and that "We have called consistently, repeatedly and passionately for the release of all the hostages."
"Back in October, I penned a column entitled “Israel is clear about its intentions in Gaza – world leaders cannot plead ignorance of what is coming”.
It required no special insight, no prophetic magic. You simply had to listen to what Israeli leaders and officials said they were going to do, which they did, to the letter.
Look where we are now..."
Owen Jones
Bernie Sanders: Israel is ‘becoming a religious fundamentalist country’
“Bottom line, Hamas committed an atrocity. ... Israel certainly had the right to defend itself, but it did not and does not have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people. ... Two-thirds of the casualties and deaths are women and children. Unacceptable.”
“All this suffering is human-made, a direct outcome of Israel’s unrelenting barrage. Like most famines, it is also the product of a longer history. Since 1967, when Israel first occupied the Gaza Strip, it has controlled the Palestinian food basket, engineering the nutritional intake of its inhabitants and using food as a weapon to manage the population. For decades Israel has systematically damaged the Strip’s capacity to produce its own foodstuffs, decreasing its access to drinkable water and nutritional food. Understanding these longer-term policies is crucial for making sense of the famine unfolding in Gaza now.”
Japan on Tuesday said it will lift its suspension of funding to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) as the relief body works to regain trust after an allegation by Israel that some of its staff were involved in Oct. 7 attacks on Israel....
Search your conscience. How do YOU feel knowing you’re funding GENOCIDE ?
33,000+ #Palestinian FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS have been slaughtered - two-thirds of them CHILDREN - hospitals, homes, aid trucks, aid convoys, water supplies, energy supplies … bombed; medical and food aid denied; …
Israel killed 5 World Central Kitchen workers today.
Israel needs to be cut off and stopped. Whatever defense support they may have had is gone.
I hated what they were doing before, but now I am actively against Israel.
They are on their own.
Let the world work together to stop Netanyahu.
Japan resumes funding to embattled Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA (www.reuters.com)
Japan on Tuesday said it will lift its suspension of funding to the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) as the relief body works to regain trust after an allegation by Israel that some of its staff were involved in Oct. 7 attacks on Israel....