Horsecrap.
Israel has tried for years to balance its interests with those of innocent Palestinians. Its maritime blockade did not stop Gaza from being self-sufficient in fruits and vegetables, with enough left over to potentially export.. Despite the war, three-quarters of greenhouse acres were still available as of Feb. 15, according to a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, which has the latest available data. Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) indicates that bakeries can still provide “over 2 million breads, rolls, and pita breads a day.”
Since the war began, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have engaged in what West Point Urban Warfare Studies Chairman John Spencer described as “a remarkable, historic new standard” for wartime treatment of civilians, resulting in a civilian-to-combatant mortality ratio that is “historically low for modern urban warfare.” For example, Israel regularly provides warnings of impending attacks, assists with evacuations, and even stops its attacks on a daily basis to allow humanitarian aid to arrive.
Despite the recent tragedy, the IDF tries to ensure that Gazans don’t starve throughout the war.
According to this United Nations chart, at least half the farms in Gaza are still going, their farm exports are still reaching their foreign customers, three quarters of the greenhouses are still producing, the bakeries are still baking, yet somehow, everyone in Gaza is starving to death.
That is one funny way of running a man-made famine.
The Columbia scholars didn't deny that there was hardship in some areas, but they did point out what was happening in areas where people really didn't have enough to eat and needed to rely on food aid:
Hamas is stealing all the food.
According to Columbia's Awi Federgruen and Ran Kivetz:
Hamas, which has been hoarding food and stealing from Gazans, is the root cause of Gazans’ suffering. As Congressman Jim Himes, a Connecticut Democrat and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, stated in a CNN interview: “Hamas has a long history of stealing aid, and needs to stop that in the interest of the people that they purport to represent.”
How do you starve when you're still exporting food?
There's also this aid as well on top of what the Gazans already have:
Despite the recent tragedy, the IDF tries to ensure that Gazans don’t starve throughout the war. COGAT data show that 290,000 tons of food and beverages have been delivered to Gaza since October — recently as many as 200 truckloads a day. Full distribution of these supplies would deliver about 1.82 pounds of food daily for each of the 2 million people in Gaza (145 kg per person, during 175 days of war). Based on FAO estimates of the average daily consumption in Asia and Africa (where Gaza is situated), this alone would be enough to supply 50% of Gazans’ daily consumption needs – on top of the food they continue to produce themselves.
That's a lot of free food -- and hungry Gazans don't get enough
I have a thought:
Release all the hostages and bodies.
Or starve.
All hamas needs to do is release all hostages and this could happen. These people voted them into power so what ever happens there is terrible and unfortunate but the direct result of who they elected.
Here is an idea: Hamas could surrender. Then no more starving people. problem solved. Why don’t they want to solve this problem?
More here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4235634/posts
Awww! Kids that were celebrating 9/11 probably were flying hang gliders on 10/7/2023.
N. Gaza can go back to the south.
It’s not more than 25 miles.
Gaza is a postage stamp of dysfunction.
Dear Hamas: Release the hostages and surrender. Problem solved.
Too bad, so sad. Shouldn’t have slaughtered a bunch of innocents to begin with. Reap the whirlwind.
Food could go in via Egypt.
What about the famines in Africa?! The famines in the Middle East?’ China?!
No no… just like the leftists in the US and their insipid demands about gun violence by white people while ignoring the massive amounts of black on black crime in blue cities, the UN just uses it as a political tool.
UN? F... the UN. They support the Hamas Terrorists and support destroying the USA.
I call BS!
Al Jazeera is pure propaganda.
“Hamas hijacked a major humanitarian aid shipment in the Gaza Strip, Washington said on May 2. U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller called the incident the “first widespread case of [aid] diversion that we have seen” in Gaza, noting that the trucks were held for “some time” before Hamas released them.”
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/05/03/hamas-diverts-jordan-aid-convoys-in-gaza/
This is a lie. I was on Telegram and I saw the pictures in Gaza. They had plenty of food.
Start stupid wars, win stupid prizes
NYT headline from 1945: “Germany is facing famine, requests an immediate ceasefire from Eisenhower”
War is ugly and brutal. The civilians are part of the war machine. Israel in their ignorance has very selectively only fought the warriors and not the whole machine of war. Israel will win but at great cost due to not targeting the whole war machine.
In WWII we smoked Hiroshima and Nagasaki with great loss of life to civilians. Those two targets had some military significance but not major. We made it clear to Japan we would repeat as necessary. They surrendered. Oddly we had only two bombs ready but many others were in the pipeline to wreak death. If Japan had not surrendered they would have perished as a nation. We would have killed millions, mostly by disease and starvation and atomic bombs as needed.
War is ugly, brutal must be avoided if possible. If it can not be avoided one must prosecute it in the extreme least your enemy rise again. Civilians should not be targeted but if they are collateral damage it is a sad function of total war.
I abhor war but if it is to be, “Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.”
Bulk!
And the UnitedNazis won’t be returning.
Cindy McCain is the executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP). WFP is an international organization within the United Nations that provides food assistance worldwide. It is the world’s largest humanitarian organization and the leading provider of school meals. Founded in 1961, WFP is headquartered in Rome and has offices in 80 countries. As of 2021, it supported over 128 million people across more than 120 countries and territories.
She is participating in Hamas theatre.