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UN: "Immediate Possibility of Starvation in Gaza" [1]

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Date: 2023-11-17

Israel’s almost total siege of civilians in Gaza continues—no water, little fuel, no electricity, barely any food. The World Food Programme warns that the Gaza Strip “faces a ‘massive’ food gap” and “widespread hunger.” The WFP Executive Director has warned that food and water are “practically non-existent” and that “civilians are facing the immediate possibility of starvation.” The World Food Programme statement said that there is “no way to meet current hunger needs with one operational border crossing. The only hope is opening another, safe passage for humanitarian access to bring life-saving food into Gaza."

People of conscience are speaking out and refusing to stay silent as an unfolding genocide occurs before our eyes. The efforts to blacklist and delegitimize voices calling for a ceasefire cannot hide what the world is seeing in Gaza. Israel’s bombing campaign has reduced much of Gaza to rubble. Satellite images of northern Gaza indicate that at least 1/3 of its buildings are destroyed or damaged. Israeli leaders speak openly about expelling Gaza’s inhabitants permanently, what one minister in the Israeli cabinet declared as “rolling out Nakba 2023.” The Nakba, for those unfamiliar, was the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948. Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has called on Gazans to leave Gaza permanently as refugees to other countries. Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, who previously declared his rights in the West Bank “more important” than that of the Arabs and has been convicted of incitement to racism for calling for the expulsion of Arabs, has sought to expand the conflict to the West Bank, declaring that the Palestinian Authority should be treated like Hamas. These are not marginal figures in Israeli society—they are Israel’s government ministers.

I am now accustomed to the arguments defending Israel’s “right” to punish civilians en masse. I know they will be rehearsed in the comments section, and I will not respond to them. My declaration of support for the right of Gaza’s children to live is not AGAINST anyone. It is for life, for the equality of life, and for my fervent belief that war crimes like ethnic cleansing and starvation are unacceptable at all times. Opposing the collective punishment of civilians is not an endorsement of anti-semitism, Hamas, or the atrocities of Oct. 7.

Jewish Voice for Peace has been leading peaceful protests across the US calling for an immediate ceasefire. In their own words: We can’t stay silent as long as the Israeli military is committing atrocities in our name.

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