Israel largely shut off entry of food, water, medicine and other supplies after launching its assault on Gaza following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel — allowing only a trickle of aid trucks through two crossings in the south.
After months of warnings over the risk of famine in Gaza under Israel’s bombardment, offensives and siege, children are starting to die.
The ultimate, intended outcome of Israel’s humanitarian blockade of Gaza is beginning.
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Diarrheal diseases, rampant in Gaza due to lack of clean water and sanitation, leave many unable to retain any of the calories they ingest, said Anuradha Narayan, a UNICEF child nutrition expert.
Also, distribution within Gaza has been crippled, U.N. officials say convoys are regularly turned back by Israeli forces, the military often refuses safe passage amid fighting, and aid is snatched off trucks by hungry Palestinians on route to drop-off points.
With alarm growing, Israel bent to U.S. and international pressure, saying this week it will open crossings for aid directly into northern Gaza and allow sea shipments.
Most people eat a weed that crops up in empty lots, known as “khubaiza.” Fatima Shaheen, a 70-year-old who lives with her two sons and their children in northern Gaza, said boiled khubaiza is her main meal, and her family has also ground up food meant for rabbits to use as flour.
He died due to extreme muscle wastage caused primarily by lack of food, according to Dr. Jabr al-Shair, head of the children’s emergency department at Abu Youssef Najjar Hospital.
Aya al-Fayoume, a 19-year-old mother displaced to Rafah, had brought her 3-month-old daughter, Nisreen, who has lost vast amounts of weight over the winter months, sick with persistent diarrhea and vomiting.
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I was listening on the radio about this new aid boat, they’re trying to work out how to do it because people are so hungry and desperate that they will drown trying to be the first to the boat.
Begin? My brother in Christ, they’ve been dying for the last 75 years.
I didn’t write the headline.
If you’re referring to my comment, that is only in reference to the current aid blockage being intended to bring about a famine.
The famine is now much worse it seems, so it’s not wrong to refer to it as recent development in the headline of a news article.
Speaking of which, the headline currently reads:
It’s not just Israeli bombs that have killed children in Gaza. Now some are dying of hunger too
Which is different from the post’s title. Did the headline change, or did you editorialize?
They changed the headline. I copied the original verbatim.
I almost screamed at my phone when I read that
It’s hard to imagine what it feels like to watch your newborn baby starve to death.
It’s hard to imagine the desperation, the sorrow, the helplessness.
It’s hard to imagine the rage, the impotence, the desire for justice and revenge.
Its hard to imagine that Hamas will ever run out of new recruits.
That’s my take away from this. Living in that circumstance, it becomes more about whoever will give you a weapon to fight your oppressors than it does fighting for any one ideological goal.
Its hard to imagine that Hamas will ever run out of new recruits.
“If I were a Palestinian I would have joined a terrorist organisation.”
–Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
It’s easy if you try.
