Gaza’s Government Media Office released a statement on Monday that said over 3,500 Palestinian children under the age of five are at risk of starving to death in Gaza due to the Israeli siege.
The media office said the children are suffering from “acute malnutrition, affecting their bodies, exposing them to infectious diseases, hindering their growth, and threatening their survival.”
The statement said the children were at risk of dying due to “a severe shortage of milk and food, a lack of nutritional supplements, and the denial of vaccinations.” The media office pointed to the fact that the Rafah border crossing has been closed since May 7, and barely any aid has entered Gaza since then.
On Saturday, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that a 13-year-old boy died due to malnutrition. “A 13-year-old Palestinian child has died due to starvation in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip amidst the closure of the Rafah border crossing,” the report said.
Wafa added that so far, 37 Palestinians have died of malnutrition and dehydration due to the Israeli restrictions on aid, although it’s unclear if every starvation death has been recorded. Gaza’s Health Ministry’s latest death toll update said at least 36,479 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli military operations since October 7.
The US continues to arm Israel and support the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians despite US laws prohibiting military aid to countries that block humanitarian assistance shipments. The State Department claimed in a report that Israel was not blocking aid, allowing the weapons shipments to continue to flow. A US State Department official resigned over the report and called its conclusions “false.”
Hamas started this genocidal war against Israel-now let them free the hostages.
And Israel saw Hamas' genocide attempt and then showed them what a real genocide looks like. And freeing the hostages won't stop that.
What is wrong with you?
Starving children to death makes them the same war victims as the children the Israelis kill with bombs and bullets and fire. It is a most cowardly war to kill unarmed civilians with bombs and by starvation. Israelis are not fighting a conventional war, like the Americans they rely on bombs and sanctions. The IDF thugs are terrorist snipers killing and kneecapping unarmed children and adults, it is very likely that white phosphor also gets used.
Israel has become a nation of viscous inhuman monsters.
The Israeli Zionist Irgun started the genocidal war almost a century ago and they never let up on it. That is why the Israelis are hated
The IRGUN terrorized Palestinians starting a almost a century ago and never stopped. .
Responsible for the King David Hotel bombing. Years ago, Geraldo had a late night show, receiving and interviewing guests. One night, his guest was Netanyahu. I didn't know that much about him, but I learned a lot that night. Geraldo, who is Jewish and Hispanic, asking him about the innocents that were killed in that bombing. Bibi's response? "They shouldn't have been there". I have remembered those words ever since. Netanyahu has not changed since that night. He has become worse.
Yes, a response like that sticks with you, and it is just what a criminal mind would come up with.
jake! Tim Burns! Don Julio! You are back! Glad to see you and be able to read your useless dribble. You know very well the history of Gaza. I know you do. You are like the kid in school who likes to trip fellow students, then run to a teacher for protection. Israel started this in 1948, stepped it up in 2006, then was complicit in the Hamas breakout of 7Oct. Your man, Netanyahu, and his bank of merry killers, knew of the plans for the incursion a year in advance. IDF was placed elsewhere. Then, the IDF assisted the Hamas fighters in killing Israelis, by lobbing tank shells into homes, Apache (American-made) helicopters firing on anything that moved (pilots admitted confusion as to where to shoot). Of the 1200 Israelis that were killed, 300 were IDF soldiers, with Israel responsible for more than 400 killed by the IDF. Hence the "trigger" for Netanyahu to 1) stay out of jail, 2) set in motion the "final solution" to the Palestinian "problem".
We have still another manure spreader to join the trio. I see you responded to him above.. Go-Nad something….. 😉
Israel/Zionism started the genocidal war in 1948.
"The Nakba was the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Mandatory Palestine during the 1948 Palestine war through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, property, and belongings, along with the destruction of their society, and the suppression of their culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations." Wikipedia
I often wonder, how Israel truly lost its own compassion for the rights of others to exist. How can such people be considered “Chosen”?…..
I wonder about the Christian Nationalists who cheer Israel blowing up Christian churches, besieging Christian churches such as the Armenian Christian Church in Jerusalem, which has been in East Jerusalem since the 4th Century.
Probably has something to do with being an ethno-supremacist state; Apartheid South Africa, Rhodesia, the Confederate States of America, for some reason they all end up this way.
This is terrible news, but not nearly as important as the "right" of pro-apartheid students to "feel safe" on college campuses, or anywhere else in this once great country that their benefactors now control.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/h… Homeland Security U. at work snuffing out speech, urinating on the First Amendment to our Constitution.
Maybe hamas can release some of the aid they have hoarded.
Maybe you can give evidence that is the case. Maybe you can turn back the clock to 1948 and there not be a Nakbha that had incarcerated Palestinians in that largest concentration camp the world has ever seen, for over 75 years. plus the brutal blockade that has existed for 17 years. It was revealed by Haaretz that the Israeli administration scientists calculated the caloric needs of Palestinians, allowing enough products into Gaza to fulfill those caloric needs of starvation plus. Potato chips were denied. Chocolate as well. Potable water restricted. Fuel restricted, Electricity shut down daily. Yes, perhaps you can turn back the clock to before 7Oct. Time did not start then.
Maybe you can find it yourself. You might come across the video of hamas executing palestinians for taking some relief supplies from hamas.
Maybe Israel should stop illegally starving civilians as collective punishment. Starving a population is a war crime, but Israel doesn't follow international law do they? They just do what they want, no repercussions.
I see you are propagandized.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-envoy-says-israel-has-not-shown-evidence-that-hamas-is-diverting-un-aid-in-gaza
“Gaza Media Office says…”? Wow. You wouldn’t know propaganda even when they announce themselves as such. Give me a break.
Or this:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/samantha-power-gaza/
Before Oct 7th there was over 500 trucks of aid going into Gaza and they still had over 30% of their population that was considered "food insecure". Since only a fraction of that aid is getting in now, it wouldn't matter if all of the aid made it to the general population, there would still be an ongoing famine. And by the way, if the US was under the same conditions as Gaza, our very own government would be well fed, and you and I would be starving.
since all medical infrastructure has been destroyed there is no way to know exact numbers of Children who starved to death, and the lifelong number of brain damaged children caused by malnutrition we will never know.
Starvation at the time the children are developing, physically and mentally, means an ongoing genocide for years to come.
In other news: https://www.msn.com/en-us/h… also: https://www.msn.com/en-us/n… one article shows that the "other" college Homland Security U. is doing a good job of snuffing out peaceful protests, while targeting speech. The other article relates the same old, same old killing of Iranians in other countries. In a third article that I am looking for again, a very wealthy (Jewish) person, an alum of Columbia U. donated a staggering $260 million to a university in Israel. Then I read about president Bidette "cutting some slack for Israel concerning Gaza.