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Northern Gaza in ‘full-blown famine’, UN food agency chief says: World Food Programme head calls for immediate ceasefire and ‘unfettered access’ into besieged territory.
Al Jazeera ^ | 05/04/2024

Posted on 05/04/2024 8:43:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Northern Gaza is experiencing a “full-blown famine”, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has said, and warned that it is “moving its way south”.

In an interview with NBC News set to air on Sunday, Cindy McCain said that her remarks are based on what the WFP has seen and experienced on the ground. UN officials and aid agencies have for months warned of such a scenario.

“It’s horror. It’s so hard to look at and it’s so hard to hear,” McCain told the US broadcaster’s Meet the Press programme.

“What we are asking for and what we continually ask for is a ceasefire and the ability to have unfettered access, to get in safe through the various ports and gate crossings,” she said, according to a video clip of the interview.

On Saturday, a delegation from Palestinian group Hamas was in Egypt to continue negotiations on a ceasefire amid an uptick in international pressure for a deal to be reached.

Hamas’s spokesman Osama Hamdan said there had been “some forward steps”.

Yet Israel has threatened to launch its ground invasion of Rafah in the southernmost tip of the enclave, which is home to more than 1.4 million displaced Palestinians who have fled the Israeli military’s relentless bombardment in other parts of the Gaza Strip.

Israel has severely restricted the entry of critical humanitarian supplies into Gaza despite warnings from its allies and the United Nations of a looming famine in parts of the Palestinian territory. Its military has also repeatedly attacked and killed Palestinian civilians waiting to collect aid in the Strip.

(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; Qatar; War on Terror
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1 posted on 05/04/2024 8:43:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Horsecrap.


2 posted on 05/04/2024 8:43:59 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

No, Israel is not starving Gaza

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... According to a study by two Columbia University scholars, one a professor and the other a logistics expert, in a piece featured on today's RealClearPolitics in a piece that focused on actual data:

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

3 posted on 05/04/2024 8:46:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I have a thought:

Release all the hostages and bodies.

Or starve.


4 posted on 05/04/2024 8:46:26 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: SeekAndFind

bttt


5 posted on 05/04/2024 8:50:07 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: logi_cal869

Exactly.


6 posted on 05/04/2024 8:58:44 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: dfwgator

Yup. What this really means is Hamas needs more of the stuff to sell for weapons.


7 posted on 05/04/2024 9:02:30 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


8 posted on 05/04/2024 9:06:20 PM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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Here is an idea: Hamas could surrender. Then no more starving people. problem solved. Why don’t they want to solve this problem?


9 posted on 05/04/2024 9:10:12 PM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


10 posted on 05/04/2024 9:10:43 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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11 posted on 05/04/2024 9:11:36 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: SeekAndFind

N. Gaza can go back to the south.

It’s not more than 25 miles.

Gaza is a postage stamp of dysfunction.


12 posted on 05/04/2024 9:14:18 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

Dear Hamas: Release the hostages and surrender. Problem solved.


13 posted on 05/04/2024 9:15:51 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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” “Hamas has a long history of stealing aid, and needs to stop that in the interest of the people that they purport to represent.””

The only way Hamass can be reformed is by being wiped out.


14 posted on 05/04/2024 9:17:25 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Too bad, so sad. Shouldn’t have slaughtered a bunch of innocents to begin with. Reap the whirlwind.


15 posted on 05/04/2024 9:20:05 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Food could go in via Egypt.


16 posted on 05/04/2024 9:35:42 PM PDT by ealgeone
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Exactly: horsecrap.

Those pali muzzie women are as stout as they come. Their husky girth puts the fat waddling mamacitas to shame.

17 posted on 05/04/2024 9:38:29 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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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.


18 posted on 05/04/2024 10:01:00 PM PDT by Skywise
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UN? F... the UN. They support the Hamas Terrorists and support destroying the USA.

I call BS!


19 posted on 05/04/2024 10:13:13 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: ilgipper

“All hamas needs to do is release all hostages”

They cannot release the hostages, most of them are dead.

Hamas must die.


20 posted on 05/04/2024 10:15:19 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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