At least 16 Palestinian children have starved to death in the Gaza Strip over the past few days due to the US-backed Israeli siege, and the UN’s child relief agency is warning that the number of child deaths will “rapidly increase” if conditions don’t immediately change.
“Last week, we warned that an explosion in child deaths was imminent if the burgeoning nutrition crisis wasn’t resolved,” said Adele Khodr, UNICEF’s director for the Middle East and North Africa. “Now, the child deaths we feared are here and are likely to rapidly increase unless the war ends and obstacles to humanitarian relief are immediately resolved.”
The latest Palestinian child reported to die of hunger was Yazan al-Kafarna, a 10-year-old with cerebral palsy who was in the al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah. Fifteen children have also died of malnutrition and dehydration at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
The UN has previously warned that Gaza’s entire population of about 2.2 million people is facing “crisis” levels of food insecurity, and at least 576,000 Palestinians in Gaza are “facing catastrophic levels of deprivation and starvation.”
Despite the dire situation, the State Department reaffirmed on Monday that it will continue to provide military assistance for Israel’s genocidal war. The US is still not pushing for an immediate ceasefire or using military aid as leverage over Israel to allow more aid trucks into Gaza. Instead, the US dropped aid out of planes over the weekend, a move criticized by aid groups as a public relations ploy since the amount was just a drop in the bucket of what’s needed in Gaza.
According to the latest numbers from Gaza’s Health Ministry, 30,534 Palestinians have been killed by Israel, and 71,920 have been injured. About 70% of the casualties are women and children.
I am so sorry.
It’s very depressing to watch history repeat itself, and the so called leader of the free world aid in Israel’s blocking of food aid to starving civilians.
There is no free world.
Let Hamas free all the hostages at once, in return for release of some Arabs from Israeli prisons,and the food aid will no longer be blocked.VERY simple.
Of course that is given. However children shouldn’t suffer and die because Hamas is obtuse. What would have the reaction been if when Saddam Hussein took American hostages during the Gulf War, if the US simply nuked an entire city there? Israel has been breaking every law regarding human rights of civilians since this started, Geneva Convention be damned.
I am so sorry and enraged. Our government consists of war criminals, psychopathic people, really dehumanized human animals.
Come election time my dog will be my write-in candidate, he is more humane and has more common sense and decency than any elected official.
Images are starting to appear from Gaza, showing children literally starving to death. Apparently the world especially the US, learned nothing from the horrific images from Biafra years ago of starving children. Shame.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emaciated-palestinian-boy-dies-gaza-famine_n_65e5f01ae4b013678e162d03#:~:text=Mar%204%2C%202024%2C%2005%3A44%20PM%20EST%20Yazan%20al-Kafarneh%2C,in%20the%20territory%20to%20die%20of%20severe%20malnourishment.
Wow. A downvote for that???
Terje downvotes anything critical of Israel, he is their biggest cheerleader on Disqus. He can be found in his natural habitat of Political wire, however at times his downvotes migrate to other sites.
According to the latest numbers from Gaza’s Health Ministry, 30,534 Palestinians have been killed by Israel, and 71,920 have been injured. About 70% of the casualties are women and children.
Do the numbers include the people buried under the rubble and all the people who died because of lack of medical care, the incubator babies and patients in ER ?
Nope. There are no hospitals and people are trapped under collapsed buildings with no way to extract them, so the actual numbers must be much higher.
Do they also include Hamas troops?
The IDF would know and report it. They don’t need Hamas to do it for them.
These events should serve as a clarion call to de-zionize our institutions starting now. We should not procrastinate out of fear, it must be done one way or another. It is a racist and extremist ideology that is now obvious regardless of words.
Get rid of Biden and his administration and the whole state department they are Zionist first.
You will have your chance in November. What will you replace him with? Trump. What can go wrong with that plan?
There is no point to vote, they are the two sides of the coin.
Biden is baaaad,but look how Hamas miscalculated, and brought their own people to ruin.
The demented Biden Zionist got rid of Nuland, that is a start.
DC obeys the donors, not the people. And the donors want more Zionism and so that is what our federal government will promote.
The US is still not pushing for an immediate ceasefire or using military aid as leverage over Israel to allow more aid trucks into Gaza.
To the contrary. They veto bills that would do just that (Feb 20th). Those “sensitive negotiations” that resulted in absolutely nothing but what this article states should be repeated ad nauseum.
This should also be repeated until the cows come home:
In the real world, Israel’s slaughter has continued unabated. On November 9, when ABC News swore that there was “growing daylight” between Biden and Netanyahu, at least 10,812 people had been killed in Gaza. By February 8, when the Times asserted that things had become “increasingly fraught” between Biden and Netanyahu, at least 27,840 people had been killed in Gaza.
It appears whenever the Crime Minister and Gen Joe talk, more Palestinian deaths result…!
getting impossible to believe that IDF is even trying to locate hostages, or bring to justice the perpetrators of the 10/7 terrorist attacks. when the entire Palestinian society is in rubble, and the people are reduced to living out of a gym bag and begging food aid, how do you find anything out? how do you investigate anything? ask someone a question, only answer you will get is “got anything to eat?”
And who is to blame for this tragedy?-Hamas and its masters.
Israel made the decision. Israel is doing the genocide. Israel is responsible for the genocide. It isn’t complicated.
No it is not complicated. No Oct 7, no war in Gaza. It that simple.
Once more:
Netanyahu: “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told a meeting of his Likud party in 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
No Netanyahu promising support for Hamas TO THWART THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PALESTINIAN STATE in 2019 and no Hamas. No Hamas, no Oct 7th. The genocide was a decision made by Israel. Period. “It that simple”.
Eh? Who started this war-HAMAS!
Eh? Who is doing the genocide-ISRAEL.
Aaron Bushnell’s will left his savings to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. The problem is it getting to them, and without being shot at. I sent a small amount, but this situation makes you feel so out of control.
As far as I’m concerned. we the taxpayers/voters have absolutely no say in this country’s foreign policy. The people infesting DC have no moral or ethical center and know that they do not have to listen, nor are they in any way accountable to, we the people.
Our political system at the national level is a sham.
Not trying to tell you something you obviously know, just blowing steam.
I know. We have really no say in domestic policy eithet.
Biden’s policy of starving babies recalls Lord Trevelyan’s during the potato famine. He and Netanyahu are scum-brothers in ancester betrayal.
But not a word about htheHamas leader’s crimes.
Yes, we must never forget Liel Hetzroni, the 40 beheaded babies, the Nova Rave mass rape, the mutilated genitalia, ….
The West wants this Genocide, it is enriching them, because they are failing in their climate change BS, which no rational person will buy into. The EV market is going nowhere, the solar market is going nowhere, the batteries blow up and start fires, ETC. What is left, the Manufacturing KING, Military Weapons. The West has shown over and over, their lack of humanity, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., so expect ZERO compassion from the West. The ME/Africa/Russia/China are the only ones who can STOP this slaughtering of Human Beings. STOP buying goods made in Western Countries if possible, stop supporting their Entertainers who care nothing about decency, stop supporting their Sports Teams, just do whatever you can to show your displeasure with their INACTION, which means they condone the Genocide. I fear this Genocide is just the Start for the Zionist Globalist Thugs.
Connecting the war in Gaza to climate change politics!!! Well that is different. And how in heck not watching a baseball going to change the course of the war?
Glenn Greenwald
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It’s one thing to support Israel. It’s another to support its destruction of Gaza. It’s another still to demand Americans finance Israel’s wars.
But to see credible reports of mass famine for 2.2 million people, then object to a tiny amount of food dropped there, is monstrous.
Mar 4, 2024