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#Famine Haunts the People of Gaza. $Israel Is Trying to Convince You It’s Fake.

Israeli extremist officials deny the existence of famine in Gaza as they push for harsher measures to block food.

By Wesam Abo Marq, May 7, 2025

Read more:
theintercept.com/2025/05/07/ga

Archived version:
archive.ph/2gSAg

The Intercept · Famine Haunts the People of Gaza. Israel Is Trying to Convince You It’s Fake.By Wesam Abo Marq
Gaza’s Government Media Office has stated that more than 70,000 children are being hospitalized in the enclave due to severe malnutrition amid more than two months of total occupation blockade.
“Under this systematic blockade, more than 3,500 children under the age of five face imminent death by starvation, while approximately 290,000 children are on the brink of death,” the GMO said in a statement on Sunday.
Source: @aljazeeraenglish | Gaza Government Media Office

#Gaza #Famine #Genocide #Israel #FoodAsWeapon #Politics #Starvation #SaveTheChildren #Inhumanity

Sit-in voor Palestina: Never again is now

Station Utrecht Centraal, donderdag 8 mei om 18:00 CEST

Utrecht for Palestine (bron/source)

(English below)

Waarom je mee moet doen aan de sit-in in Utrecht

Israël verhongert en vermoordt Palestijnen, valt hulpverleners aan en blokkeert tegelijkertijd iedere humanitaire organisatie die de Gazastrook binnen probeert te komen. Sinds 2 maart 2025 is elke vracht met noodhulp tegen gehouden. De blokkade is niets minder dan een misdaad tegen de menselijkheid - en de wereld kijkt weg. Oorlogsslachtoffers uit de tweede wereldoorlog worden herdacht, maar hoe oprecht is die herdenking eigenlijk als we tegelijkertijd zwijgen over de slachting in Gaza? Terwijl we stilstaan bij het verleden, zijn onze regering en vele bedrijven medeplichtig aan genocide.

Wij blijven opdagen om onze woede, verdriet en verzet te laten zien! Laat je stem horen. Kom naar de sit-in en eis: directe toegang voor hulpgoederen, bescherming van burgers in Palestina en een einde aan de Nederlandse steun aan deze genocide.

Why you must join the sit-in in Utrecht

Israel is starving and killing Palestinians, attacking aid workers, and simultaneously blocking every humanitarian organization trying to enter the Gaza Strip. Since March 2, 2025, every single truck carrying aid has been stopped. The blockade is nothing less than a crime against humanity — and the world looks the other way. Victims of World War Il are commemorated, but how sincere is that remembrance if we remain silent about the massacre in Gaza? As we pause to reflect on the past, our government and many companies are complicit in genocide.

We will continue to show up and make our anger, grief and resistance known! Raise your voice. Join the sit-in and demand: immediate access for humanitarian aid, protection of civilians in Palestine, and an end to Dutch support for this genocide.

acties.todon.nl/event/sit-in-v

Geen rode lijn voor #DickSchoof

'Veiligheidskabinet #Israël akkoord met uitbreiding oorlog'

nos.nl/liveblog/2566099-kabine

"Ook over het verspreiden van voedsel en noodhulp is iets meer duidelijk geworden. Dat gaat pas beginnen als het volgens de Israëlische regering nodig is.
Bij de bijeenkomst van het veiligheidskabinet gisteravond is volgens The Jerusalem Post gezegd dat er op dit moment genoeg voedsel in de Gazastrook is."
nos.nl/liveblog/2566099-kabine
#Gaza #annexation #genocide #warcrimes #famine

"At least 57 Palestinians starved to death under Israel’s blockade of Gaza"

aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/3/57

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Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said he had witnessed heartbreaking scenes of children rifling through rubbish, “looking for whatever is left of canned food products”. The enclave, he added, had reached a “critical” point with international organisations out of supplies and community kitchens unable to prepare meals for displaced people.
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The cruelty is the point. Specifically, the point is dehumanization and torture - they are trying to turn starving Palestinians into "beasts" so that it's easier to rationalize mass killing ("culling") under speciesist logic.

cjil.uchicago.edu/print-archiv

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“It’s frustrating and infuriating to have trucks piling up on the other side of the fence be denied entrance while the people, even children, are in dire conditions.”
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Al Jazeera · Dozens of Palestinians starved to death under Israel’s blockade of GazaBy Al Jazeera

#gaza #palestine #civilians #parents #siblings #loss #suffering #pain #trauma #deaths #killings #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #bibi #netanyahu #childmurder #famine #hunger #starvation

@palestine

Israel is starving #children to death. This little #Palestinian boy is soon going to die of malnutrition and dehydration if he doesn't get the food and medical care he urgently needs. Unspeakable #Israeli violence.
#picturesthatdontneedcaptions

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@palestine
#gaza #famine
#IsraelTerroristState
#FreedomFlotilla

"Maltese govt will not allow stricken vessel to return to its waters for help as crew desperately tries to keep it afloat" But it allowed "an Israeli military plane to circle in its airspace for five hours while it released and controlled the drones that bombed an international humanitarian ship and its crew last night...also showed a US military aircraft circling in the same area"

skwawkbox.org/2025/05/03/video

SKWAWKBOX · Video: Malta allowed Israeli planes in its airspace 5 HOURS to bomb humanitarian flotilla shipBut Maltese govt will not allow stricken vessel to return to its waters for help as crew desperately tries to keep it afloat. Read on for the latest The Maltese government allowed an Israeli milita…
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@palestine
#gaza #famine
#IsraelTerroristState
#FreedomFlotilla

"Yasemin Acar, a media officer with the group, has now told CNN there is a “hole in the vessel” and the “ship is sinking”.
"Acar said the ship was attacked off the coast of Malta in international waters, and it is now anchored 17km (10.5 miles) from the country. The crew has “sent out SOS calls to the surrounding countries” and a “small boat” from Cyprus has been sent to help, she added"

#gaza #famine
#IsraelTerroristState
#FreedomFlotilla
@palestine

Israelis foaming at the mouth, target the Freedom Flotilla ship off the coast of Malta.
From Al Jazeera:
"Activist ship with 30 people on board sinking after drone attack near Malta
Earlier, we reported that an Israeli military drone has reportedly attacked a vessel with the Freedom Flotilla activist group as it set off to break Israel’s Gaza blockade and deliver aid to the besieged enclave"
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Instead, what exists now is a total #siege. For 60 days, #Israel’s authorities have blocked the entry of #humanitarian #aid & commercial goods in….That has left the already beleaguered residents of #Gaza in an even more miserable predicament. The #WorldFoodProgram said this week that its warehouses are empty & that bakeries & soup kitchens are rationing their last stocks. #UN experts say that #malnutrition rates are rising & that the prospect of a full-blown #famine is now all-too real.

#Gaza #famine
#IsraelTerroristState
@palestine

"Children have been Israel’s particular target throughout this genocide, from snipers’ bullets to its bombs and its denial even of pain relief for the maimed and dying – and now of its deliberate starvation of innocents. The United Nations said this week that Palestinian children are “going to bed starving” while ample food is just a few kilometres away but prevented by the occupation regime from reaching them"

skwawkbox.org/2025/05/01/gazas

SKWAWKBOX · Gaza’s children are being starved by Israel’s illegal blockadeTragic footage shows the impact of the occupation’s criminal starvation blockade Starving: little Siwa Ashour, Osama Al-Raqab and Rafah Ayad and hundreds of thousands of other Palestinian chi…
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Speaking before the International Court of Justice, the Palestinian ambassador to the Netherlands articulated what everyone who isn't openly lying to obscure a genocide already knows; Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war and its blockade of Gaza is an international crime.

commondreams.org/news/icj-hear

Palestinian Envoy to ICJ: Israel Using Starvation as 'Weapon of War' in 'Genocidal Campaign'

"The siege has created conditions that are "incompatible with sustaining life or the continued existence of Palestinians in Gaza," Hijazi said.

The ambassador noted that the ICJ hearing was taking place to consider whether Israel is violating international law.

"It is not about the number of aid trucks Israel is or is not allowing into the Occupied Palestinian Territories, especially Gaza," said Hijazi. "It is about Israel destroying the fundamentals of life in Palestine while it blocks U.N. and other humanitarians from providing lifesaving aid to the population. It is about Israel unraveling fundamental principles of international law, including their obligations under the U.N. Charter."

"Starvation is here," Hijazi added. "Humanitarian aid is being used as a weapon of war."

My friends, I honestly don't know what more I can say here when the facts speak for themselves. Israel has totally blockaded Gaza, they're bombing the shit out of the people inside, and the military isn't allowing enough food, or seemingly any medical supplies or other lifesaving humanitarian aid through to the Palestinian people its bombing. As this clearly genocidal shit is going on, a US media is largely ignoring the crisis while apparently hoping all the Palestinians will be dead before their audience notices we're helping Israel exterminate or ethnically cleanse an entire people in Gaza.

And all the while a Pig Empire establishment continues to manufacture consent for the slaughter by pretending the Netanyahu government's motives are unknowable in the fog of war, despite the fact that cabinet ministers keep blurting out their intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza and we're watching what can only be an attempted genocide unfold on Tik Tok videos day, after horrifying day. History is going to be written about the cowardice, complicity, and depraved indifference to human life on display in the Pig Empire establishment here; the only question is will we as Americans survive our own fascist chickens coming home to roost long enough to help write it.

Common Dreams · Palestinian Envoy to ICJ: Israel Using Starvation as 'Weapon of War' in 'Genocidal Campaign' | Common DreamsIsrael's brutal blockade in Gaza is causing unimaginable suffering, with people slowly dying from starvation and violence. How can the world stand by as innocent lives are destroyed?
#Fascism#Trump#Gaza

“In Gaza, World Central Kitchen is among the last organizations still able to cook meals. The IDF has shut all crossings to shipments, including humanitarian relief. We are now nearing the end of our supplies—and the limits of what’s possible.”

How can our leaders just watch children being starved on purpose? Some even delivering weapons to make it happen?

mailchi.mp/wck/4-23-25-update

mailchi.mp500: We've Run Into An Issue | Mailchimp
#Gaza#Famine#Hunger