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The Hamas terrorist organization is starving Palestinians in Gaza by stealing food that arrives in humanitarian aid shipments and then selling it on the black market, according to Zvika Klein, editor of the Jerusalem Post. Those who cannot afford to pay the exorbitant prices are going hungry, he said — not for lack of aid deliveries, but because Hamas seizes the aid on entry and uses it to enrich itself and fund its ongoing war against Israel. Klein’s account of the situation in Gaza corroborates anecdotal information from social media videos, showing people selling food supplies delivered through international humanitarian...

Lisa Putnam is a fifth grade teacher in the Chicago Public School system. She and her students were very excited about participating in the Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move kickoff even in the Windy City. The event was being held at the McCormick Place, billed as the largest convention center in all of North America. Their day of fun and excitement turned out to be anything but fun and exciting. The students spent over 7-8 hours without food for what turned out to be nothing more than a commercial for Michelle Obama who literally ignored the 6,000 kids brought in for...

Mugabe at food forum as country starves By Basildon Peta Zimbabwe Correspondent 09 June 2002 Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, who has pushed his country into starvation through wholesale seizures of productive white farms, arrived in Rome yesterday for a UN food summit, circumventing an international travel embargo imposed after he was accused of stealing the March presidential election. Mr Mugabe's continued use of UN meetings as a means of evading the travel sanctions and entering Western countries has angered civic groups in Zimbabwe, who dismiss the ban as "spineless". His attendance at the Food and Agricultural Organisation summit this week...