Gaza food crisis is 'worst-case scenario,' say experts
By: Laura Kelly (The Hill)
Where is the liberal and neoliberal interconnected global order? Why are the advocates for nation building completely stymied? Why has globalization completely and utterly failed?
Europe has hidden in the corner and moralized, lectured, gaslighted, and whined hoping that the United States will step in. Europe has become so helpless and ineffectual that an isolated, weakened, and shrunken terror group poses an insurmountable obstacle to their geopolitical worldview.
Let's see the interconnected global world order in action. Put troops in Gaza, kill Hamas, return the hostages, and build a new Palestinian nation. It's time for globalists to put up or shut up. We have been lectured and brow beaten into supporting a global world order since the end of World War II. Now that global world order is held at bay by a few thousand terrorists they can't control?
The globalists can tear hair, rend clothes, wail at the sky. No one cares anymore because the global order can't do shit.
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The worst-case scenario of famine is playing out in the Gaza Strip, the leading international authority on food crisis said in an alert Tuesday as aid workers urge immediate action to avoid thousands of preventable deaths.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, issued the alert but stopped short of a formal famine declaration. The warning comes amid international outrage over images of emaciated children and increased reports of death due to starvation in Gaza.
The crisis follows months of Israel's tightening of humanitarian aid deliveries in the Strip amid its war against Hamas for the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack.
On Monday, President Trump said there was "real starvation" in Gaza, signaling a break with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had said there was no starvation in Gaza.
The president said the U.S would look into setting up "food centers" in Gaza.
But the administration is drawing scrutiny and criticism for its support of the American-founded Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which has handled distribution of food in the Strip for months and is criticized for contributing to chaotic, dangerous and undignified aid deliveries with people killed and injured searching for food.
Amid international pressure and France's declaration it will recognize an independent Palestinian state last week, the Israeli government announced over the weekend it would carry out tactical pauses in fighting to allow for aid distribution.
Jerusalem said it opened up additional corridors for humanitarian assistance and carried out and granted air drops of aid. But humanitarian workers in the Strip say this is far short of the response needed to prevent thousands or potentially tens of thousands of people from dying.
"Air drops are just not a solution. They're a spectacle. They're theatrics," Bushra Khalidi of Oxfam said during a briefing of humanitarian workers organized Tuesday by the nongovernmental organization Save the Children.
"You can't feed starving children by tossing energy bars from the sky. People have already been injured by falling palettes. They've died by falling palettes, and the chaos around these drops only adds to the suffering."
The Gaza Health Ministry is reporting that 147 people, including 88 children, have died from malnutrition and starvation since October 2023, part of the more than 60,000 people killed since the start of the war. Hamas killed approximately 1,200 people and took 251 hostage in its 2023 attack on Israel.
While the health ministry does not distinguish Hamas militants in the figures, the numbers are widely accepted by the United Nations and other international organizations. Israel estimates it has killed 20,000 Palestinian militants.
The IPC alert said malnutrition has been rising rapidly in the first half of July and has reached the famine threshold in Gaza City. More than 20,000 children have been admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition between April and mid-July, with more than 3,000 severely malnourished, the report said.
"We have many children now in our child protection services saying that they wish to die. In heaven, in paradise, there is food, there is water," Rachael Cummings, humanitarian director for Save the Children International in Gaza, said in the briefing.
"Yesterday, in the clinic, one of the things that struck me, not only was the sort of visual impact of seeing so many people extremely thin, it was nearly silent … because children cry, but they're so exhausted, they're so sick, they're no longer able to cry. And that, I think for me, was really one of the most significant things I've ever seen in my career."
Tarek Loubani, a Canadian doctor working in Gaza, said the malnutrition numbers are extremely conservative and that death due to malnutrition is only classified when there is no other comorbidity.
"What we've seen every other time is that the numbers are about 10 percent of the reality, and probably that's what we're looking at here in terms of malnutrition and starvation," said Loubani, who is also the medical director for the Glia Project, which provides medical supplies to impoverished locations.
Loubani also pointed out that malnutrition is another devastating hardship on top of scarce resources for patients. Families donating blood for relatives wounded in bombings or shootings have difficulty replenishing their own blood supply because "there's no iron, there's no nutritious food."
Loubani said he has lost about 44 pounds living and working in Gaza because there is so little food to eat for medical and aid workers. He said a handful of rice was his recent meal.
"In terms of the physicians and health care workers I work with, they are suffering. Their families are suffering. Everybody here is suffering," he said.
The IPC report said the sufficient delivery of humanitarian assistance can only be possible with a ceasefire, and that would require scaling up the flow of goods, restoring basic services and ensuring safe, unimpeded access to life-saving assistance.
Trump's special envoy for peace missions left talks with Hamas last week blaming the U.S.-designated terrorist group as being the obstacle to a deal. He said the administration will consider "alternative options to bring the hostages home and try to create a more stable environment for the people of Gaza." Hamas holds about 20 living hostages it kidnapped from Israel on Oct. 7 and about 30 bodies.
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So load up landing craft with supplies and drive them onto shore. Build an adequate shipping port on the Gazan coast. Provide troops to escort the aid convoys. Negotiate with Egypt to create a larger staging area and open more entry points into Gaza. Dumping shipping containers along the coast and letting them drift onto shore would be more effective than showboating airlifts.
Show us what the interconnected global world order can do. So far all we've seen is a lot of posturing, scapegoating, gaslighting, and moralizing. But that's not getting it done.
Well, there was this:
What went wrong with the U.S.-built floating pier designed to get aid into Gaza
Joe Biden's folly? Obviously a floating pier is not a substitute for an adequate shipping port.
Did Gaza have the ability to feed it's population before attacking Isreal?
Before the Oct. 7th terror attack, Gaza produced enough fruit, vegetables, and grain to feed itself. Before the terror attack both Israel and Egypt blockaded Gaza to control Hamas which forced trade goods through designated entry points. While a lot of attention has been focused on the imports, Gaza also exported some agricultural products. Hamas screwed that up, too.
Gaza could have been a quite different place if the Palestinians had rejected Hamas.
they did it to themselves
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The food that could be grown in Gaza was being exported to buy the food that couldn't be grown in Gaza. And Hamas pissed it all away.
Somewhat, but had Hamas not gained control it was better at being able to feed themselves.
Maybe distribute what is already there. This is all leftist lies and propaganda.
No one need starve if the Hamas Palestinians really cared about the innocents.
Food Is Stockpiled in Gaza and the UN Is Refusing the Group Ready to Deliver It
A little while ago, Keith Starmer, Prime Minister of Great Britain , said the UK will recognize the existence of the state of Palestine at the UN in September, unless Israel ends the war by then.
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, unless Israel ends the war by then.
Thus removing from Hamas any incentive to agree to a cease fire or release the hostages and literally rewarding Hamas for prolonging the war. The eternal question whether hostility to jews or incredibile stupidity motivate people like Starmer rages on.
This guy sums it up:
Gotta keep the ever multiplying number of islamists at home happy I guess. Maybe Starmer can go arrest more people for blasphemy against Islam as an encore.
If Hamas hasnt given up after 50,000 deaths what makes you think they will give up after 70 or 80,000 deaths? I have asked a couple people here and no reply. When killing civilians is not having you reach your goals maybe its time to stop killing civilians. Whether or not the UK will disincentivize Hamas from a deal by recognizing Palestine is a moot point now.
That's on them John. Maybe, instead of helping Hamas, progressives should be pressuring Hamas to surrender, not rewarding them for keeping hostages.
It doesnt matter who it's "on". It hasnt worked. Your argument is essentially "if we just keep killing them they will surrender". Not only is there no evidence for this it is contra-reality at the present time.
This is the first war in human history where one side is responsible for feeding its opponents. For thousands of years, refusal to surrender meant starvation and death for civilians. Its a good incentive not to start wars. Now, under Stermer rules, it means you get aid and achieve your political aims. You win by ignoring the rules of war and making propaganda videos. Make sure your own side suffers and insane people who have no idea of how humanity functions will reward the most depraved of terrorists.
What a terrible precedent and one that will only exist until Hamas and their ilk starts winning wars. Rest assured, no aid will be allowed the losers then.
Hamas will never stop killing civilians.
They are a terrorist group-- that's what terrorists do!
So Starmer is basically saying that if Israel does end the war by September he will not recognize the existence of the state of Palestine?
How long do they expect other countries to give them food?
Anybody wonder why the children in GAZA are starving and yet the HAMAS dickheads still have enough energy to have marital relations with their goats?
They make these claims while videos from Gaza show healthy people and somehow they all have the ability to charge their phones and post video.
So let me get this straight. Those that initiated and are losing this war are trying to give people information?
Sorry, not fkng buying it.
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