Lawlessness will ease if ceasefire brings food
On 16 November 2024, nearly 100 aid trucks delivering humanitarian assistance to people in Gaza were looted. By all accounts, the looting took place in murky circumstances. At short notice the Israeli…
On 16 November 2024, nearly 100 aid trucks delivering humanitarian assistance to people in Gaza were looted. By all accounts, the looting took place in murky circumstances. At short notice the Israeli…
Washington (Quds News Network)- A Biden administration official pressured the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) to soften its conclusion that famine was occurring in Gaza last December and…
An estimated 130,000 children under the age of 10 have been trapped in areas of northern Gaza almost entirely cut off from aid assistance, food and medical supplies for 50…
Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan hospital told Al Jazeera that Israel is blocking the entry of food, water, medical staff and materials destined for the north. He…
The US State Department determined Tuesday that Israel is not violating international human rights law by withholding food to Gaza, effectively endorsing Israel’s policy of deliberately seeking to exterminate the…
In recent months several consensual aspects of humanitarian aid have been violated in ways that are perhaps unprecedented. This has happened particularly in Gaza and Lebanon as Israeli forces have…
The Israeli government has reportedly cut off commercial food imports to the Gaza Strip, a move that was revealed Thursday as new data showed that the besieged enclave's entire population is facing emergency-level hunger…
An Oxfam report published Wednesday estimates that war-fueled hunger is likely killing as many as 21,000 people per day in dozens of countries as parties to global conflicts weaponize starvation…
Michael Fakhri, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has published a report accusing Israel of carrying out the “deliberate starvation” of the Palestinians in Gaza as a means of…
While the United Nations still has not formally declared a famine in Gaza after nine months of Israel's near-total blockade on humanitarian aid, 10 top U.N. experts on Tuesday said they have…
United Nations World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain said Friday that Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are experiencing "full-blown famine" after nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment and invasion—and that…
(Beirut, April 9, 2024) – Children in Gaza have been dying from starvation-related complications since the Israeli government began using starvation as a weapon of war, a war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Doctors…
The International Court of Justice issued a ruling Thursday ordering Israel to provide urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza’s desperate 2.3 million inhabitants. The ruling, which starkly declares that “famine…
Amid a systematic US-Israeli campaign to deliberately starve the 2.2 million residents of Gaza, the entire population is on the brink of famine. “Famine is ever closer to becoming a…
For five long months world hegemonic USA stood by it’s beloved Israel ‘fellow’ ‘democracy’ and with its veto prevented the UN Security Council from ordering Israel to stop annihilating its…
Israel’s withholding of food from the population of Gaza may be a deliberate effort to starve the population, the United Nations’ highest human rights official said Tuesday. In a statement,…
“Those who think we are delaying [the invasion of Rafah] will soon see that there is no place we cannot reach,” threatened Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on a visit…
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing March 6 on Global Food Security, a timely topic especially so with millions starving in Gaza. It was unknown if the two…
Despite massive global protests after last Thursday’s “flour massacre,” in which Israeli troops killed at least 115 people and wounded 760 more trying to get food aid, the genocide is…
A day of speculation about a ceasefire in Gaza sparked by US President Joe Biden has exposed the vicious cynicism of all involved. Biden told reporters, “My national security adviser…
As the Israel-Hamas war passed the 100-day mark this week, the Gaza Strip continues to be devastated amid the conflict, with women and children said to be the majority of casualties --…
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