Gaza is getting less than half the humanitarian aid it needs to avoid famine
Gaza is getting less than half the humanitarian aid it needs to avoid famine
Israel’s obstacles to the delivery of supplies and the way it manages the conflict may involve the use of starvation as a weapon of war, warns the UN
[The] U.N. World Food Programme estimates that at least 300 trucks of food are needed every day to meet the basic needs of the population. During the first half of March, an average of 159 trucks a day have entered Gaza, representing 40% of the minimum amount required, according to U.N. data. Before the Israeli offensive, an average of 500 trucks entered every working day, including fuel trucks.
The fact that there’s very little we can do to actually stop this besides boycotting and protesting about this, is what makes it even more awful tbh
Anecdotal, but I've spoken to Palestinians recently about how hopeless it feels. But they've responded that they've never seen so much awareness and support, not even in 2021. So this gives me some hope.
You can start comparing this to the Siege of Leningrad during the Second World War
I remember reading about it and at one point they started measuring the famine in the city by the amount of calories they could provide with the available food.
It started off at 2,000 calories per day and then over time dwindled down to 500 calories a day .... instead of saying people were starving, they just said they weren't getting enough calories to survive. (as a modern measure, it's estimated that a good healthy amount of calories per day is 2,500)
Another sign of the amount of desperation that occurred was the number of any animal life in the city .... horses disappeared, as well as dogs, cats, mice and rats. The city became devoid of all life.
You'd think humanity would have learned from that terrible lesson from the recent past .... we're recreating it again now and the world is allowing it all to happen. This isn't an Israeli problem any more .... it's a global problem where we selectively ignore humanity to our fellow humans and create the conditions of indecency and a disregard for life whenever we feel like.
We haven't evolved .... we just learned to create better window dressing to show how terrible we still are.
Israel was tightly controlling the amount of calories per capita that entered the strip long before Oct 7 even happened. Their justification was that any excess would provide Palestinians with a stockpile that would make any future sieges less effective. They weren’t even allowed to collect rainwater.
A study carried out by Johns Hopkins University (U.S.) and Al-Quds University (in Abu Dis) for CARE International in late 2002 revealed very high levels of dietary deficiency among the Palestinian population. The study found that 17.5% of children aged 6–59 months suffered from chronic malnutrition. 53% of women of reproductive age and 44% of children were found to be anemic. Insecurity in obtaining sufficient food as of 2016 affects roughly 70% of Gaza households, as the number of people requiring assistance from UN agencies has risen from 72,000 in 2000, to 800,000 in 2014.
Where’s all the Zionists now?
They are busy drawing up plans for their new beachfront condo in Gaza.
Making memes about tankies to distract you.
if only the tankies were the threat they think they are.
Biden's symbolic help was only ever meant to shore up support for himself in the US Elections whilst not really stopping Israel's execution of their Final Solution.
Zionism is just a variant of Nazism and Biden has said he's a Zionist.
I for one look forward to the punching zionists phase of this comparison, they could use a little physical perspective shifting.
Feed them the bodies of billionaires. Actually don't. Just leave the bodies on the ground for the animals. And give them the billionaires money.
So they're slowing down the genocide to achieve plausible deniability. Right. Gotcha.
Just for information, here's World Kitchen's report for the day.
https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres/status/1770925751182708837?t=zjfy_urvWBgdsFK6mabSXg&s=19