Time is running out to prevent starvation in Darfur, in western Sudan, a UN agency has warned, as escalating violence devastates the African nation. People have been forced to consume “grass and peanut shells,” the regional director for Eastern Africa of the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. “If assistance...
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) director said the comprehensive famine in northern Gaza might spread south. Northern Gaza is experiencing "full-blown" famine, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Director Cindy McCain. ...
"The international furore, weak as it is, needs to subside, however, and that is what the Biden administration is seeking. Not a cessation of genocide but the means through which Israel is not viewed through the genocidal lens as it deserves."
Something with which our own media seems willing to actively assist. 🤬
One telling aspect of the targeted drone strike on World Central Kitchen is how, as Israel approaches its 200th kill of a humanitarian worker, neither Netanyahu nor the IDF even pretends there will be consequences for the soldiers or changes in policy.
You'd think that the result of this, ie. all humanitarian aid groups suspending their efforts in Gaza, was the ultimate aim of this deliberate and targeted attack on #WCK.
Israel appears to want Palestinians in Gaza to starve faster.
Don't worry everyone! Sky News' military analyst tells us that Israel killing several aid workers "looks like a dreadful mistake", before going on to explain how hard it would have been for the Israeli jet to identify the aid workers vehicles from 10,000 feet up.
Please note that the coordinates, destination, and time of departure were sent to Israeli command. It is standard practice in war zones to mark vehicle roofs in this way to prevent them being bombed.
During a speech at the Concordia Forum, Keir Starmer has condemned "terror" in Gaza, criticised "forced" starvation of Gazans and demanded immediate "end to killing of innocent Palestinians. No equivocation – that must happen now".
They said that was what they were going to do in OCTOBER, Keith. You were cool with it then. Guess they've copped on to the amount of votes they're likely to lose. #UKPolitics#TelAvivKeith#GazaGenocide#ManMadeFamine
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"In Washington, the Pentagon said three of the 18 bundles of airdropped aid into Gaza on Monday had parachute malfunctions and fell into the water"
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Saying we're doing a genocide hurts my feelings.
From the UQ in the HoC today:
Beth Winter (Lab): "Starvation is being used as a weapon of war. In Gaza it is clear Israel is engineering a famine of over 2 million civilians. What action is the government taking?"
Andrew Mitchell: "Many people in Israel will find that 'profoundly offensive'."
Oh well take a fuckin bow Biden, Sunak, Starmer and the rest of the west. Glad you didn't have to hurt anyone's feelings by calling a genocide a fucking genocide.
"This is the fastest decline in a population's nutrition status ever recorded. That means children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen."
Melanie Ward of Medical Aid for Palestinians on CNN
People eating ‘grass and peanut shells’ in Darfur, UN says, as hunger crisis engulfs war-ravaged Sudan (edition.cnn.com)
Time is running out to prevent starvation in Darfur, in western Sudan, a UN agency has warned, as escalating violence devastates the African nation. People have been forced to consume “grass and peanut shells,” the regional director for Eastern Africa of the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. “If assistance...
Northern Gaza in 'full-blown' famine: Senior UN official (www.euronews.com)
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) director said the comprehensive famine in northern Gaza might spread south. Northern Gaza is experiencing "full-blown" famine, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Director Cindy McCain. ...
Starvation: Anatomy of ‘a very cruel, slow death’ (www.aljazeera.com)
With man-made famines threatening both Sudan and Gaza, Al Jazeera breaks down how the body succumbs to starvation.