The head of the UN’s World Food Programme has said northern Gaza is experiencing a “full-blown famine” that is moving south, which is a result of the US-backed Israeli blockade and bombing campaign.
“Whenever you have conflicts like this, and emotions rage high, and things happen in a war, famine happens,” Cindy McCain, the widow of Senator John McCain, told NBC News.
“What I can explain to you is — is that there is famine — full-blown famine — in the north, and it’s moving its way south. And so, what we’re asking for, and what we’ve continually asked for, is for a ceasefire and the ability to have unfettered access,” she added.
Humanitarian organizations have not officially declared famine, but McCain reaffirmed her view that there was already a “full-blown famine” when asked by the host, saying it was based on what the WFP has seen on the ground. “It’s horror. It’s – You know, it’s so hard to look at and it’s so hard to hear, also,” she said.
McCain is the second notable aid official to say that famine is already occurring in Gaza. Last month, Samantha Power, head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said she believed famine was already occurring in parts of northern Gaza.
Despite the admission from a high-level US official, the US has continued to back the Israeli slaughter and starvation of Palestinians, and President Biden is refusing to call for a ceasefire that’s not attached to a hostage deal.
Israel has said it’s taken some steps to increase the flow of aid into Gaza, but aid officials say it’s not nearly enough. The restrictions on aid violate US law that prohibits military assistance to countries that block deliveries of humanitarian assistance, but that has not stopped Biden from continuing to ship weapons.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said Sunday that at least 34,683 Palestinians have been killed in the US-backed slaughter since October 7. The number does not include thousands who are missing under the rubble, and it’s unclear how many have died of malnutrition caused by the siege.
What a deliberately dishonest statement. This passive bullshit that it just happens when there were deliberate actions by Israel and the rest of the west to make it happen.
Sorry, not impressed. Israel and the US are intentionally starving them. War crimes, Cindy.
Definition of crocodile tears: the headline above.
What a blatantly dishonest statement. This passive bullshit that it just happens when there were deliberate actions by Israel and the rest of the west to make it happen.
Sorry, not impressed. Israel and the US are intentionally starving them. War crimes, Cindy.
“Famine happens, you know, like a drought or hurricane, there’s just no explaining how out of the blue people start starving!” /s
Still, from a McCain, surprising.
Not really. She leaves the door open for blame. Like Hamas.
“Evangelicals” are going to Hell for supporting it.
At a time when claims are being made that there is no famine in Gaza, I am pleased that Mrs. John McCain says there is.
It doesn’t matter. She phrased it in the passive.
Starving Gazan citizens to death? ‘Thank U America fr supporting ‘the lone Zionist democracy’ in the Middle East:
“Over 2/3 of Jewish Israelis oppose humanitarian aid to… Gaza residents.” (Mondoweiss)
“democracy”
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Last month, Samantha Power, head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said she believed famine was already occurring in parts of northern Gaza.
And the month before that, on March 3rd, the VP of the US said:
“People in Gaza are starving”
It’s not like this shit just became known.
Covering their asses, but in the most passive, blame free way imaginable.
Well said E. Dread, we’ll said.
Anything Samantha Power says is a lie for political gain by leftists. Look up her history in the Obama administration.
I would never call the Obama administration leftist. How many drones did he send? How many Banks did he bail out. How did he get 40 Million in 8 years?
Yes, everyone is lying but the IDF. Another fucking tool who condones genocide. Oh wait, the genocide is just another “leftist” lie, am I right asshole?
Excessive amount of humanitarian aid has entered northern Gaza. Foreign aid groups are now requesting a reduction in the scope of goods due to the excessive quantities, as reported by the IDF. Reports of a food crisis in Gaza were evidently exaggerated, and it appears that the aid primarily benefited Hamas.
Question: Why is it that all Gazans appearing on the streets in all media broadcast are well fed and without any appearance of malnutrition?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/world/middleeast/yazan-kafarneh-gaza-starvation.html
This is the face of deliberate deception. This young lad died from an unrelated terminal illness. You cannot refute that all Gazans appearing within media filming are well fed.
You mean a related illness. Malnutrition was clearly part of the cause of death. His death is on your hands, marks your soul.
Where is your evidence that the whole of Gaza is starving?
I haven’t seen any fat Palestinians. They do admittedly wear clothes.
There are articles with pictures of starving children. I can’t know the full of it, but Israel should allow in an excess of food.
We’ll know the truth when the tally is made at the end of how many survive. We might have more killed in Gaza than members of certain groups died in WWII.
No, Israel shouldn’t “allow in an excess of food.”
Israel should be told the food is going in whether they “allow” it or not and to stay the hell out of the way if they don’t want to be run over or shot.
If the situation was reversed, and Hamas had “won”,what would your policy be.
The IF , IF, IF …. Trick question over and over.
So how many ifs shall we ask?
You actually think Knapp, of all people, would be FOR starving the Israelis if the roles were reversed? Do you actually read people’s comments or do you just pick between what seems like a small number of bullshit responses regardless of who or what you are responding to?
The same — I don’t support either gang of peas-in-a-pod ethno-nationalist murderers. I do support not preventing food from reaching starving people.
No one said that “the whole of Gaza is starving”. It’s like the idiots that say there is no genocide because everyone isn’t dead yet. People are starving. When an Israeli firster like Kamala Harris blurts it out, you know it’s true.
“Before October 7th, 33% of the population were food insecure,” said Kyung-nan Park, director of emergencies for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). “We can safely say that 100% are food insecure at this moment.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-population-lacks-food-faces-malnutrition-un-food-programme-official-says-2023-11-09
Even before the war, Gaza struggled with water supply
The Gaza Strip has no streams, lakes or other surface sources of water. In the years prior to the war, water for bathing and laundry in the Palestinian territory has come mostly from a coastal aquifer that had become contaminated. About 97% of the water from that source doesn’t meet World Health Organization standards for human consumption, the U.N. says.
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/29/1221571110/gaza-water-israel-crisis-hamas
After 16 years of blockade, as of 2022, the unemployment rate in Gaza was among the highest globally at 46.6%, with youth unemployment at 62.5%. The Gaza Power Plant could only meet about 50% of the region’s electricity demand resulting in power cuts averaging 11 hours per day, and 97% of water in Gaza was contaminated and unfit for human consumption, posing serious health risks, especially to children.
https://www.telosgroup.org/updates/gaza-before-and-after-october-7-2023/
“Where is your evidence that the whole of Gaza is starving?”
He didn’t claim that: he said “malnutrition was…part of the cause of death.”
Try to keep up.
“This is the face of deliberate deception.”
Your Disqus profile doesn’t even show your face.
Carlton and all of the same viewpoint – Now just think of where did this doctor get his food whilst in Gaza? And the same for all the UN relief workers, tv crews, reporters. How is Sinwar and the battalions underground managing to eat if food is so scarce? That’s just a few examples and there are many more. Exercise the little grey cells and perhaps you will see the lies and deception.
EVERYONE isn’t starving you fucking moron. There are 2.3 million people in Gaza and you think since they all aren’t emaciated that must mean that the famine is just some made up bullshit. 33% of the people of Gaza were food insecure BEFORE Oct 7th. Do you think that 7 months of war improved that situation? Even our blood thirsty officials can’t deny the humanitarian crises but you’re so fucking stupid that you think if you can’t SEE mass starvation, then everyone is well fed. Christ, you fuckers make me sick.
1/ “This young lad died from an unrelated terminal illness.”
And you know that how? Show cerebral palsy can’t be worsened by malnutrition – and wasn’t in this case – or yr making up crap.
2/ “You cannot refute that all Gazans appearing within media filming are well fed.”
“Cannot refute”? There you go again:
First, support yr claim that “all Gazans appearing within media filming are well fed”…
…then it’ll be on posters to “refute” – aka, kick yr insupportable claim along w/yr teeth down yr throat.
So, was your comment sarcasm or are really that gullible?
The gullibility points to you, for soaking up all the lies and deception of reports from pro Hamas supporters.
McCain, Power and Harris are Hamas supporters? Sure, why not. And I take that gullible question back and replace it with: Are you that fucking stupid?
When you bring the conversation down to a gutter level, I’m out.
Condoning a genocidal attack on mainly women and children deserves “gutter level” replies.
Fucking idiot. Blocked for being British, a race I learned to loathe as I learned about history.
Your great seat of democracy has been reduced to rubbish as has been your colonial empire.
The Palestinians in Gaza have the look of a people who have been living under oppression for nearly 60 years and are now being subjected to an Israeli “Final Solution”.
I remind you that it was the Gazans on 7th Oct 2023 who killed, raped and burnt people alive. No wonder the IDF seeks to put an end to Hamas.
I remind you that collective punishment of an entire population is a War crime.
It is a major waste of time and energy to waste the effort to educate those who don’t want to learn or hear the truth.
Is that you Jake? What about the 40 beheaded babies?
No it’s not Jake – It’s Roger
Whoever you are, you’re BLOCKED.
Well then Roger, tell us about the 40 beheaded babies.
“ It was a time of great tension. The Arabs were beginning to realize that the promises and assurances they had been given at Balfour counted for nothing and their homeland was being given away. The Jewish settlers were being reinforced by the illegal immigration of thousands of Jews from war-devastated Europe and reinforced by armaments from the Soviet Union and financial support from the USA.
Holding the line between them were young British servicemen and police, many of whom had come straight from the war in Europe and had taken part in the liberation of such camps as Bergen-Belsen, only to find themselves shot at and blown up by Jewish terrorists. Their deaths left a lasting bitterness among the veterans and their families.
The deaths included the hanging by piano wire of two 20-year-old British Army sergeants, Mervyn Paice and Clifford Martin, who in 1947 were kidnapped by Irgun and held hostage for three weeks. Their bodies were left hanging in a eucalyptus grove and were booby trapped with land mines.
Also the 100 British Army personnel, Crown servants and civilians who were murdered by means of a huge bomb planted by the Irgun in the basement of the King David Hotel, Jerusalem in July 1946. Another 28 British soldiers died in the bombing of the Haifa Cairo train.
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2024/05/03/august-1947-kristallnacht-in-the-uk-in-response-to-jewish-anti-british-terrorism-in-palestine-to-the-sergeants-hanged-in-palestine-affair/
Hamas betrayed their own people.
“Why [do] all Gazans appearing on the streets in all media broadcast [appear] well fed and without any appearance of malnutrition?”
Advance thanks for supporting an otherwise worthless claim.
Cindy F McCain (POS) struck gold in the United Nothing!
2. If you were to watch TBN.IL you would know Israel permits something like 500 tons of relief supplies PER DAY into Gaza mostly through Egypt. Don’t forget water AND electricity come from Israel. Nobody protects non-combatants as does Israel. Fifty-three percent of Gazans voted FOR Hamas and their war against Israel; could have been stupid or coerced.
53% of Gazans voted for Hamas in 2006.
That was 18 years ago (the median age in Gaza happens to be 18).
Hamas hasn’t allowed an election since.
As of last August, Hamas was violently putting down street protests against its misrule and executing its opponents as “Israeli spies.”
As of last October, in a last-ditch attempt to save its hold on power, Hamas brought in the Israelis to be the “worse bad guy.”
There is always a trojan horse.
Gaza: The curse of Mohammed Dahlan
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2017/7/30/gaza-the-curse-of-mohammed-dahlan
Israel never left Gaza alone the biggest open air prison under complete siege for decades and brutal wars several times. Israel had Palestinian spies inside Gaza that’s a fact. Many Arab anti-resistance regimes have hand agitation against Hamas to end any type or form of Palestinian resistance and advance the Abraham accord.
re Hamas as resistance. It’s a shitty job, but someone has to do it. It’s not easy to represent and defend the prison population from within the prison.
I think that people from western countries (humorously known as democracies) are inclined by their training (laughingly called education) to look down their noses at people from the ME, Far East, and Africa and South America.
I’ll assume you are not being sarcastic and work as a paid or foolish troll since you cite an Israeli propaganda channel, so I’ll ask:
1. Something like 500 tons? How much do they need? Why do they limit aid? They don’t allow Gazans to build a ship pier to import things and attack any ships or boats who try to land aid without rare special permission.
2. You know their carpet bombing has killed 40,000 civilians thus far and has been condemned by all civilized nations.
3. Correct, Israel does not allow Gazans to build electrical generators nor water purification plants so it can cut that off when it wants. Even before October, Israel rationed water, electricity and food.
The restrictions on aid violate US law that prohibits military assistance to countries that block deliveries of humanitarian assistance, but that has not stopped Biden from continuing to ship weapons.
If Biden dies tomorrow, I will be pissed. That it wasn’t yesterday.
The man has been dead to me for years. He is one sorry excuse for a hominid and an embarrassment to evolution. He belongs in the Hague, as do his buddies in Tel Aviv, London, and select other capitals.
Since the Leahy law was first pointed to, the US line has been, ‘We’ve seen no evidence of blocked aid’ – itself a weasel word phrasing of compliance that leaves the door open for ‘oh, well we missed that’ type excuses. Running w/this playing dumb move, I recall a WH spokesperson ‘encouraging’ anyone w/info of such violations to report them to the WH.
Though there was a recent ‘And-just-what-the-f-DOES-yr-‘evidence-of compliance’-consist-of?’ demand, dunno where it went. One press meeting evasion’s been to say they ‘charged Israel w/investigating’ particular allegations.
“House Dems Voice ‘Deep Concern’ Over Biden Claim That Israel Is Legally Using US Arms” (commondreams, 4/16/24)
“House Democrats…challenged the Biden administration’s claim that Israel is using U.S.-supplied weapons in compliance with domestic and international law.”
If we got lucky would Harris get the nomination and be any different?
So now Cindy McCain is an anti-Semite according recently passed American legislation.
Israelis Craft Secret Plan to Put Anti-Hamas Palestinians in Charge of Gaza Aid
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israelis-craft-secret-plan-to-put-anti-hamas-palestinians-in-charge-of-gaza-aid-2da63078
Sounds wonderful to me.Look what Hamas has just done to Gaza.
Hamas didn’t drop 25,000 tons of bombs on Gaza, Israel did. Israel, and scum shit like yourself, can blame anyone they want but it takes a special kind of evil to respond to the Oct 7th attack with a genocidal slaughter and Israel has proven to be that special kind of evil.
Climate change will bring this everywhere.
We Americans certainly wouldn’t know since our Fake News is only interested in whether some privileged Jewish students on campus feel uneasy over pro-Palestinian protests.