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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.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; Qatar; War on Terror
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To: SeekAndFind

Al Jazeera is pure propaganda.


21 posted on 05/04/2024 10:17:58 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: SeekAndFind

“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/


22 posted on 05/04/2024 10:28:23 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a lie. I was on Telegram and I saw the pictures in Gaza. They had plenty of food.


23 posted on 05/04/2024 10:40:53 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: SeekAndFind

Start stupid wars, win stupid prizes

NYT headline from 1945: “Germany is facing famine, requests an immediate ceasefire from Eisenhower”


24 posted on 05/05/2024 12:03:16 AM PDT by KingofZion
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To: SeekAndFind

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.”


25 posted on 05/05/2024 12:15:50 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bulk!
And the UnitedNazis won’t be returning.


26 posted on 05/05/2024 12:36:58 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


27 posted on 05/05/2024 12:51:09 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I call BS, nothing but terrorists and and terrorist appeasers at the $hit hole known as the UN.


28 posted on 05/05/2024 12:56:42 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: SeekAndFind

There is this annoying fund-raising ad on YouTube with this Palestinian kid, about 10-11 years old, and he is saying, “I’ve seen …war…I’ve seen booombing… I’ve seen shoooting…” and I just think, “Wow… and in the middle of all that, he learned to speak English.”


29 posted on 05/05/2024 1:00:36 AM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Full blown famine is a far sight better and full blown decimation and turning it into a parking lot. They KNEW, they KNEW and either remained silenced, substantively helped or tacticity supported it. They KNEW and now they get everything that goes with that knowledge


30 posted on 05/05/2024 1:08:05 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind
The hostages are mostly dead -- tortured to death.

Until there is a sufficiently large death toll in Gaza that the whole episode is remembered as the "second Nakba" Israel must keep the war going.

Remember the hostages were mostly civilians, many women and children. The Palestinians voted for Hamas. Starving is far easier than being tortured. Enough of them must die to prevent a repeat.

31 posted on 05/05/2024 1:40:49 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: SeekAndFind

They brought it on themselves.

They thought Biden would hold Israel back sooner than this to save HAMAS.


32 posted on 05/05/2024 2:11:01 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Where Islam dominates freedom, civility, Jews and Christians die)
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To: SeekAndFind
Like pretty much all Hams propaganda it's total lie.

Anyone starving in Gaza is starving because Hamas wants them to starve for propaganda purposes and Hamas is responsible for their starvation by blocking readily available food aid from reaching them. It a fundamental Hamas tactic in their war against Israel.

33 posted on 05/05/2024 3:37:18 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: ilgipper

That was over 20 years ago. Palestinians should at least call for new elections.


34 posted on 05/05/2024 3:38:17 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: SeekAndFind

Cindy:

This is a closet and there is your bucket for your evacuation needs.


35 posted on 05/05/2024 4:19:16 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Surely, you won’t mind six months of being couped up.

As for baths, if we think you smell too bad we will give you a second bucket with water and a towel.


36 posted on 05/05/2024 4:24:53 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Thanks for posting. BTTT!


37 posted on 05/05/2024 4:30:27 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: logi_cal869

This is war. Its not chess or checkers or a playground dispute. You dont quit until the combatants surrender one way or another. Bomb them out, starve them out. UNTIL THEY SURRENDER ALL THEIR WEAPONS.


38 posted on 05/05/2024 4:37:50 AM PDT by Ikeon (My only issues with stupid people are, they encouraged to talk and post stupid opinions.. )
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To: SeekAndFind

BS.


39 posted on 05/05/2024 4:49:36 AM PDT by stockpirate (A group of baboons is referred to as a "Congress" of baboons.)
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To: SeekAndFind
World Food Programme head calls for immediate ceasefire and ‘unfettered access’ into besieged territory Palestinian State.
40 posted on 05/05/2024 4:50:41 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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