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Kids, Adults in Gaza Starving to Death
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE, JUL 25 – Over 16% of children in Gaza are acutely malnourished as aid deliveries remain blocked amid ongoing Israeli military restrictions, international groups warn of mass starvation.
- On July 21st, Amande Bazerolle, MSF head of emergency response in Gaza, said `What we are seeing is unconscionable; an entire population being deliberately cut off from food and water, amid daily military violence at aid sites.`
- Amid a 145-day blockade of Gaza, Gaza Government Media Office wrote, and limited aid truck entries since late May have exacerbated attacks on civilians seeking food.
- Amid warnings of mass starvation by over 100 aid organizations, the UN human rights office reported that one in five children in Gaza City is malnourished.
- Across Australia, health workers initiated a chain hunger strike, urging the Australian Government and health organisations to take meaningful action.
- Calls are growing for a ceasefire, as the International Crisis Group warned only a ceasefire can alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
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Kids, adults in Gaza starving to death
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Five starving children at a Gaza City hospital were wasting away, and nothing the doctors tried was working. The basic treatments for malnourishment that could save them had run out under Israel's blockade. The alternatives…
Gaza is Starving – how Israel’s Allies can go beyond Words and take meaningful Action
By Simon Mabon, Lancaster University (The Conversation) – In the past two months, more than 1,000 people seeking food have been killed, according to the UN Human Rights Office. While the figure has been disputed by Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation which was set up to distribute aid, 28 nations this week condemned the “horrifying” killing of Gazans trying to get food. As the Israel Defense Forces continues its assault in the city of De…
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where, according to the United Nations (UN), “millions of civilians are trapped in a small space, fighting hunger, disease and constant displacement,” was the subject of attention by European media this week, following the denunciation of a hundred NGOs about the “mass-hambruna” in Gaza. BBC, El País, Libération and The Guardian, to name a few, reported that the Gazan civilian population, especially children, is …
Israel’s starvation campaign ravages Gaza
The cries of hungry children echo through tent camps in Gaza City, with over 50 Palestinians in the enclave starving to death in the past five days alone. The post ‘Death has more dignity than this life’: Israel’s starvation campaign ravages Gaza appeared first on +972 Magazine.
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Scenes of starving people in Gaza ‘deplorable’, says Reeves
Rachel Reeves said the Government’s focus was on getting aid in to Gaza, rather than Palestinian statehood.
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