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Starvation in Gaza [1]
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Date: 2023-12-10
Half of Palestinians in Gaza are now Starving; Depriving Civilians of Food is a War Crime
by Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan
12/10/2023
Juan Cole reports today that the United Nations warned on Saturday that half the population of Gaza is now starving.
The World Food Programme (WFP) had reported at the end of November that in the north of Gaza, about half of the people were suffering “severe levels of hunger.” Meanwhile, nearly everyone had inadequate levels of food consumption, i.e. they were getting less than the recommended calories per day. While a couple of weeks ago 37% of the people in the south of Gaza were experiencing severe levels of hunger, the relatively better condition of people in the south has since deteriorated as Israeli bombardments and ground operations ramped up in Khan Younis and elsewhere.
Already on December 7, the WFP posted at X about Gaza that “Almost no one has enough food. In some areas, 9 out of 10 people have gone a full day and night with nothing to eat.”
On Saturday, Corinne Fleischer of the World Food Program posted a video of herself in Gaza where she remarks, “Look at the people.….They’re pleading to us to bring more food…. We are seeing the food on the other side, and we can’t bring it in. Since the beginning of this conflict, we managed to bring only 10% of the food that is required here for 2.2 million people in Gaza. We absolutely need a ceasefire. She said the only answer to the hunger was for World Food Programme to be able to deliver food to families, which in turn requires an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and more border crossing points (all but Rafah in the far south are closed, and often no trucks come through Rafah either).
Samer Abdeljaber, the World Food Programme country director for Palestine, posted to X of Gaza that “families are desperate, exhausted, hungry and living in overcrowded shelters with nowhere to go. It has been 2 months of unrelenting suffering…..people are exhausted.”
Professor Cole emphasizes that “The Rome Statute underpinning the International Criminal Court forbids starvation as a method of warfare.” He provides these details:
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