Posted on 11/03/2025 2:56:22 AM PST by Milagros
Critics have long said that accusations of famine in Gaza have a gaping hole right in the middle: the staggering amount of emaciated, dead bodies, part and parcel of a famine, are simply nowhere to be found.
When the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a United Nations-linked food-security agenda, determined in August that a famine was indeed ongoing in parts of Gaza, those behind the report said that the sheer devastation in Gaza did not allow for an accurate accounting of starvation-related deaths.
Instead, they said, they were using another key criterion for famine that generally goes hand in hand with malnutrition deaths, and that extrapolating on the former to determine the latter was taking place.
That key criterion, called mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), appears to have never been met, according to data recently released by the Global Nutrition Center, which is staffed by UNICEF, the U.N.’s agency for children. The measurement serves as an easy and generally accepted way to gauge malnutrition. The IPC standards say that when 15% of children sampled show signs of malnutrition, it’s indicative of a famine.
The IPC’s August alert, determining that famine was already taking place, said there was a rapid rise in child malnutrition, based on a two-week data sample from mid-to-late July.
The newer information, released on Sept. 17 by the “State of Palestine” Nutrition Cluster, reveals that IPC-standard age-weighted MUAC data—as opposed to the unweighted data in the IPC’s famine report—did not meet the IPC’s own famine criteria.
And without MUAC data showing famine levels, it becomes impossible for the IPC to extrapolate famine level deaths, said Mark Zlochin, a former artificial intelligence researcher who has spent months poring over data from Gaza.
“They said that because the malnutrition was rising so rapidly, they can reasonably infer that the mortality is also rising, and they’re not just catching all the deaths that are actually occurring,” Zlochin said of the IPC. “So they need both of those parts, both the crossing of this threshold, but also the very, very rapid crossing of this threshold. So once you see that it didn’t happen, everything falls apart.”…
What, demonic creatures lie? Who’d-a-thunk-it?
Israel supplied food with 4430 calories per person per day to Gaza.
Strange behavior for a country trying to starve people. They suck at genocide.
If there was intentional starvation, it was perpetrated by hamas.
Hear! Hear!
“Israel will not allow any humanitarian aid to enter Gaza...blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with the population.” - Israel Katz (Defense Minister) 4/16/2025
“We are putting a complete siege on Gaza...No electricity, no food, no water, no gas - it’s all closed” - Yoav Gallant (Defense Minister) 10/9/2023
“We must stop humanitarian aid. As long as we give food to those who fight us- we are endangering our hostages and our soldiers.”....”There is no problem bombing their food and fuel reserves. They should starve.” - Amichay Elihahu (Heritage Minister) January 2025
“No one in the world will allow us to starve 2 million people, even though it might be justified and moral in order to free the hostages.” - Bezalel Smotrich (Finance Minister) August 2024
You might try to argue that Israel was right to starve the people of Gaza but you simply cannot argue that they didn’t try to do it.
Hamas stole the food!
Re fascist Nitzy copy pasting from Qatar’s al jihadzeera and the likes.
1. Yoav Galant said it at the heat of a moment within 48 hours of genocide Hamas attacks. He then clarified that it will not be implemented. It is Also what US oficial Jack Lowy explained to New Yorker mag.
2. The last two by unrelated ministers to war or army or international decisions and don’t mean anything.
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