https://nytimes.com/world/middleeast/houthis-yemen-us-strikes-ga…
Famine experts say the proportion of Gaza residents at risk of famine is greater than anywhere since a United Nations-affiliated body began measuring extreme hunger 20 years ago. Scholars say it has been generations since the world has seen food deprivation on such a scale in war.
In northern Gaza, where a crippling three-month Israeli siege has hit hardest, corpses are left in the road and starving residents stop aid trucks “in search of anything they can get to survive,” Martin Griffiths, the top U.N. aid official, told the United Nations Security Council on Friday. Saying that the risk of famine in Gaza was “growing by the day,” he blamed Israel for repeated delays and denials of permission to humanitarian convoys bringing aid to the area.
It's genuinely crazy how many people are pro-Houthi/pro-piracy now simply because of culture war BS.
@CivilLibertiesEllaGreen5mos5MO
why is it piracy when houthis block shipments bound for Israel but not piracy when Israel blocks shipments into Gaza? Or when the US and UK block shipments all around the world every day to countries they decide they don't like anymore.
Israel, the US and UK aren't attacking random merchant shipping you idiot.
@PluckyP0liticRepublican5mos5MO
its not random merchant shipping though is it? its shipping bound for Israel.
the US and UK do the exact same thing.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution5mos5MO
Pro-piracy? The USS St. Nicholas, the Federal Ship the Iranians just supposedly "hijacked" or committed a "piratical attack" on, was in fact carrying millions worth of oil the United States Empire STOLE from the Iranians. They were just taking back what's theirs. And as for the strikes Iran and other Middle Eastern nations are launching on our bases – that's also defensive. People were freaked out when on tiny Chinese balloon flew over our nation – imagine their reaction if some foreign power built dozens of military bases on our soil? We'd be launching strikes too!
Cindy McCain, the director of the World Food Programme:
"We are looking at famine. The only way we can prevent this is by a ceasefire and safe, unfettered access for our trucks and people. We've got to get in there; we have to. People are starving to death, and many of them are children.”
McCain mentioned the need for more gates to be open and access to a port. However, she emphasized that nothing would have the impact that a ceasefire will.
She noted that famine will significantly and permanently affect children's development.
She also stated that airdrops would not materially impact the hunger issue. To mitigate this, she needs the ability to send in many trucks, which is only possible with a ceasefire.
@BillOfRightsRonnieGreen5mos5MO
And yet she's not willing to tell us what she believes would be necessary to make a ceasefire possible. An unconditional ceasefire only helps Hamas, and she's acting like Hamas and the threat it poses to Gazans, just doesn't exist.
@9J3ML7P5mos5MO
My opinion is that Israel is clearly committing genocide against Palestinian people by forcing them in an open air prison, by not allowing any UN aid through and bombing entire apartment complexes in the low probability that they hit a Hamas tunnel.
@9J3M47D5mos5MO
It’s a war crime; there has to be better efforts to get innocent people out.
@LazySealLibertarian5mos5MO
Desperate conditions in Gaza—in particular, warnings of imminent famine—are not an inevitable by-product of war. They are the result of political decisions made by an Israeli government which wants to wash its hands of any responsibility for the situation.
@ISIDEWITH5mos5MO
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