Israel/Palestine

Jilly_in_VA

(12,534 posts) Wed Jul 23, 2025, 01:14 PM Jul 23

Man-made mass starvation in Gaza, WHO chief says

The head of the World Health Organization has said a large proportion of Gaza’s population is starving. “I don’t know what you would call it other than mass-starvation – and it’s man-made,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

Meanwhile aid organisations urged Israel to ease its aid blockade as more Palestinians died of hunger.

At least 10 people had died from starvation in the last 24 hours, bringing the toll from hunger to 111, including 80 children, Gaza’s health authority said on Wednesday.

More than 100 aid agencies had earlier issued a warning that mass starvation was spreading across Gaza and urged Israel to let humanitarian aid into the besieged strip to alleviate the growing human-made hunger crisis.

A letter signed by 109 agencies including Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam International and Amnesty International says the Israeli government is blocking humanitarian organisations from effectively distributing life-saving aid.

“Just outside Gaza, in warehouses – and even within Gaza itself – tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items and fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them,” the agencies wrote. “The government of Israel’s restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/israel-gaza-starvation-humanitarian-groups-letter

What can you call this behavior, if not genocide?

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Man-made mass starvation in Gaza, WHO chief says (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jul 23 OP

It's genocide. A blind person can see it. jrthin Jul 23 #1

... lapucelle Jul 23 #2

More than 100 organizations are sounding the alarm to allow lifesaving aid into Gaza Eko Jul 23 #8

According to WaPo, Hamas is broke because it can no longer confiscate, sell, and tax humanitarian aid. lapucelle Jul 23 #3

You're quoting Jilly_in_VA Jul 23 #5

You're free to dispute the documented claim that Hamas's revenue has dried up lapucelle Jul 23 #6

Meanwhile, Hamas is holding up the ceasefire deal with a set of new demands lapucelle Jul 23 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author Ken Dayenu Jul 23 #7

WHO, UN, Oxfam, MSF, 100+ aid agencies are propagandists for Hamas?? AloeVera Thursday #9

jrthin

(5,204 posts)

1. It's genocide. A blind person can see it.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 01:18 PM

Jul 23

lapucelle

(20,397 posts)

2. ...

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 03:12 PM

Jul 23

Link to tweet

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IDF: No famine in Gaza, but if UN keeps holding back 950 trucks, could be

The IDF admitted that aid in Gaza is at a dangerous point, but asserted that the UN needed to move its trucks to solve the issue

However, it cautioned, the UN and other international aid groups currently have a record 950 trucks sitting on the Gaza side of the border that they are failing to bring to Gazans.

All of this comes amid worldwide media coverage, based on Hamas Health Ministry reports, claiming that 15 Palestinians have died of starvation in the last 24 hours and that 600,000 people in Gaza – nearly one third of the population – are suffering from malnutrition.

A top IDF official met with leading UN bureaucrats regarding the issue on Tuesday, demanding to know how they could accuse Israel of causing famine in Gaza, which, again, has not happened yet but might shortly should the UN continue to abandon its trucks – while simultaneously leaving the aid trucks to sit there without distributing the food.

According to the senior IDF official, the UN bureaucrats sat quietly for at least 20 seconds, struggling to come up with a response. Eventually, one of them said that they would make more of an effort to get the trucks moving again, the IDF reported.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-861899

Eko

(9,540 posts)

8. More than 100 organizations are sounding the alarm to allow lifesaving aid into Gaza

Reply to lapucelle (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 08:20 PM

Jul 23

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/more-100-organizations-are-sounding-alarm-allow-lifesaving-aid-gaza
As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organisations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes.

Exactly two months since the Israeli government-controlled scheme, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, began operating, Oxfam and more than 100 organisations are sounding the alarm, urging governments to act: open all land crossings; restore the full flow of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items, and fuel through a principled, UN-led mechanism; end the siege, and agree to a ceasefire now.

Just outside Gaza, in warehouses - and even within Gaza itself - tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items and fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them. The Government of Israel’s restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death.
An aid worker providing psychosocial support spoke of the devastating impact on children: “Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food.”

Signatories:

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
A.M. Qattan Foundation
A New Policy
ACT Alliance
Action Against Hunger

ACF)
Action for Humanity
ActionAid International
American Baptist Churches Palestine Justice Network
Amnesty International
Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz
Associazione Cooperazione e Solidarietà

ACS)
Bystanders No More
Campain
CARE
Caritas Germany
Caritas Internationalis
Caritas Jerusalem
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM)
CESVI Fondazione
Children Not Numbers
Christian Aid
Churches for Middle East Peace

CMEP)
CIDSE- International Family of Catholic Social Justice Organisations
Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud

CISS)
Council for Arab‑British Understanding

CAABU)
DanChurchAid

DCA)
Danish Refugee Council

DRC)
Doctors against Genocide
Episcopal Peace Fellowship
EuroMed Rights
Friends Committee on National Legislation

FCNL)
Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V.
Gender Action for Peace and Security
Global Legal Action Network

GLAN)
Global Witness
Health Workers 4 Palestine
HelpAge International
Humanity & Inclusion

HI)
Humanity First UK
Indiana Center for Middle East Peace
Insecurity Insight
International Media Support
International NGO Safety Organisation
Islamic Relief
Jahalin Solidarity
Japan International Volunteer Center

JVC)
Kenya Association of Muslim Medical Professionals

KAMMP)
Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation
MedGlobal
Medico International
Medico International Switzerland

medico international schweiz)
Medical Aid for Palestinians

MAP)
Mennonite Central Committee

MCC)
Médecins Sans Frontières

MSF)
Médecins du Monde France
Médecins du Monde Spain
Médecins du Monde Switzerland
Mercy Corps
Middle East Children’s Alliance

MECA)
Movement for Peace (MPDL)
Muslim Aid
National Justice and Peace Network in England and Wales
Nonviolence International
Norwegian Aid Committee

NORWAC)
Norwegian Church Aid

NCA)
Norwegian People’s Aid

NPA)
Norwegian Refugee Council

NRC)
Oxfam International
Pax Christi England and Wales
Pax Christi International
Pax Christi Merseyside
Pax Christi USA
Pal Law Commission
Palestinian American Medical Association
Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund

PCRF)
Palestinian Medical Relief Society

PMRS)
Peace Direct
Peace Winds
Pediatricians for Palestine
People in Need
Plan International
Première Urgence Internationale

PUI)
Progettomondo
Project HOPE
Quaker Palestine Israel Network
Rebuilding Alliance
Refugees International
Saferworld
Sabeel‑Kairos UK
Save the Children

SCI)
Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund
Solidarités International
Støtteforeningen Det Danske Hus i Palæstina
Swiss Church Aid

HEKS/EPER)
Terre des Hommes Italia
Terre des Hommes Lausanne
Terre des Hommes Nederland
The Borgen Project
The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM)
The Glia Project
The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect

GCR2P)
The International Development and Relief Foundation
The Institute for the Understanding of Anti‑Palestinian Racism
Un Ponte Per

UPP)
United Against Inhumanity (UAI)
War Child Alliance
War Child UK
War on Want
Weltfriedensdienst e.V.
Welthungerhilfe

WHH)

All of them are wrong but Israel is right?
SMH

lapucelle

(20,397 posts)

3. According to WaPo, Hamas is broke because it can no longer confiscate, sell, and tax humanitarian aid.

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Wed Jul 23, 2025, 03:15 PM

Jul 23

Hamas facing financial and administrative crisis as revenue dries up

Hamas profited “especially off the aid that had cost them nothing but whose prices they hike up,” said a Gazan contractor who has worked at Gaza’s border crossings during the war.

Over nearly two years, he said, he saw Hamas routinely collect 20,000 shekels (about $6,000) from local merchants, threatening to confiscate their trucks if they did not pay. He recalled that civil servants for the Hamas-led government said several times that they would kill him or call him a collaborator with Israel if he did not cooperate with their demands to divert aid. He said he refused. But he added that he knew at least two aid truck drivers who he said were killed by Hamas for refusing to pay.

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“Hamas sees aid as its most important currency,” said a man from Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, who helps manage the distribution of aid. He said that while most of the population had to scrape for water and food, people affiliated with Hamas had been gifted boxes of aid meant for wider distribution.

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“One of the reasons that Hamas is pushing for a return to the old system is that they have guys in all of the warehouses,” said a Western official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the news media. The presence of employees of the Gaza government allows Hamas to regulate and monitor market activities, as well as tax or seize some of the supplies at times, said a high-level Israeli official.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/21/hamas-gaza-war-financial-crisis/

No paywall:
https://archive.md/5lAWJ#selection-277.0-277.67

Jilly_in_VA

(12,534 posts)

5. You're quoting

Reply to lapucelle (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 03:38 PM

Jul 23

the BEZOS-OWNED WaPo in defense of this? Really? I kind of look askance at that these days.

lapucelle

(20,397 posts)

6. You're free to dispute the documented claim that Hamas's revenue has dried up

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Reply #5)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 03:56 PM

Jul 23

at least in part due to the fact that they no longer control the black market sale and taxation of humanitarian aid meant for the people of Gaza. Hamas running out of money is a good thing for the people of Gaza.

Personally, I look askance at terrorists confiscating humanitarian aid and selling it to the people it was donated to.

lapucelle

(20,397 posts)

4. Meanwhile, Hamas is holding up the ceasefire deal with a set of new demands

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Wed Jul 23, 2025, 03:26 PM

Jul 23

that would restore Hamas control of the "distribution" (i.e. sale and taxation) of humanitarian aid.

Hostage, ceasefire deal mediators refused to pass on Hamas's response to Israel's proposed deal on Tuesday, saying that it was not a serious answer, two sources familiar with the details told the Post.

At a meeting held Tuesday in Doha between senior Hamas officials and senior Qatari and Egyptian representatives, Hamas did present a response to the framework, but the mediators told them, “This is not a serious response. Go back and draft a new one.”

Hamas has backtracked on several issues that were already agreed upon, including humanitarian matters, an Israeli official told the Post. According to Hamas's Tuesday response, they are now demanding that all humanitarian aid enter Gaza exclusively through the United Nations, despite previous agreements stating that “aid during the days of the deal will be delivered by entities unaffiliated with either Israel or Hamas.” The official added that Hamas has also reversed its position on key understandings related to the deployment of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip during the proposed 60-day ceasefire period, as well as on the number of Palestinian terrorists to be released in the deal.

During the tense meeting on Tuesday, the mediators made it clear to Hamas leaders that “if you don’t return with a serious response, your problem will be with us - the mediators,” according to a source familiar with the details of the meeting.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-862011

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AloeVera

(3,450 posts)

9. WHO, UN, Oxfam, MSF, 100+ aid agencies are propagandists for Hamas??

Reply to Ken Dayenu (Reply #7)

Thu Jul 24, 2025, 08:21 PM

Thursday

I see.

And it is such a mystery who has been sabotaging every single unsuccessful ceasefire negotiation every single damned time.

I see.

The starvation and killing in Gaza must stop. It won't stop until Israel is no longer allowed to get away with it. Alluding to the impartial humanitarian messengers - simply giving us the horrible FACTS - as some kind of Hamas propagandists is enabling Israel's impunity. I always call that out when I see it, even when it's couched in such reasonable-sounding comments.

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