Posted on 07/03/2024 6:48:17 AM PDT by SJackson
Putting lies to rest.
The monstrous regiment of anti-Israel campaigners have been accusing Israel of deliberately withholding food aid so that a “famine” is taking place in Gaza. In fact, more aid trucks laden with food have been entering Gaza today than went into the Strip before October 7. And as several academic studies have concluded, there is no famine in Gaza. There is food insecurity, which is a different thing, the result of continued looting of aid trucks by Gazans and, especially, by members of Hamas who seize food off the trucks for themselves, their extended families, and fellow Hamas members. Now a UN panel of experts in food security has weighed in, and concluded that there is no famine in Gaza. More on this startling, and welcome admission, can be found here: “UN Committee Says Not Enough Evidence to Declare a Famine in Gaza,” by Corey Walker, Algemeiner, June 19, 2024:
The United Nations Famine Review Committee (FRC), a panel of experts in international food security and nutrition, has cast doubt on the notion that the northern Gaza Strip is suffering through a famine.
In a report released earlier this month, the committee responded to a claim by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) — a US-created provider of warning and analysis on food insecurity — that a famine was likely underway in northern Gaza. FEWS NET said that northern Gaza began experiencing famine in April and projected that the embattled enclave would endure famine until at least July 31.
The FRC rejected the assertion that northern Gaza is experiencing famine, citing the “uncertainty and lack of convergence of the supporting evidence employed in the analysis.” The panel carries out evaluations of humanitarian conditions on behalf of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an international famine monitoring initiative.
The FRC added that there is not sufficient evidence to confirm the existence of a famine within northern Gaza and called for more humanitarian access into the warzone, providing experts an opportunity to give an accurate assessment of the conditions….
Several aid agencies, media outlets, and politicians, as well as pro-Palestinian activists, have repeatedly accused Israel of inflicting famine on Palestinians since beginning its military operations in Gaza following Hamas’ Oct. 7 slaughter of over 1,200 people throughout southern Israel. Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, accused Israel of using starvation as a “weapon of war.”
Despite these allegations, data produced by the United Nations showed that Israel allowed more than 100 food trucks to enter Gaza per day in March, an increase from the daily average of 70 trucks before the war. Moreover, many trucks transporting aid into Gaza have been hijacked and seized by Hamas terrorists, increasing the difficulty of distributing food to civilians.
By June, more than 300 trucks have been transporting food into Gaza each day, through both the Kerem Shalom and Erez crossings. Israel would also like the Rafah crossing to be opened for the delivery of aid, but Egypt insists on keeping it closed.
When even a UN-affiliated panel of experts in international food security and nutrition, the United Nations Famine Review Committee (FRC), concludes that there is no “famine” in Gaza, one hopes that at least that canard — there are so many about Israel — will no longer be invoked.
But all the media reports is what Hamas tells them: send us more stuff!!
Wut? The screechers keep telling us is sooooo baaaaddddd
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I have an interesting idea! Give the Pali's a whole bunch of super-tasty food, until they are too fat to do terrorism!
The MSM has been pushing the famine in Gaza caused by Israel lies. Will they now report truthfully?
The left isn’t just ignorant of facts but affirmatively rejects reality. They don’t want to know.
This can’t be correct. Just a few days ago, a lib friend sent me a hysterical story claiming wide spread famine. It even had a photo of a skinny kid.
I’ve no doubt some people are starving. We and the Euros send the aid, Hamas steals it then sells it. I assume no money, no eat
Thanks SJackson.
McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Wendy’s, and IHOP in honor of Rachel Corey. That’ll fix ‘em.
TAQIYYA. Their religion grants them the right to lie for political reasons.
I see the Gaza inhabitants have discovered the Maduro diet.
They could have avoided this situation entirely by not supporting HAMAS.
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