Dozens of community kitchens in Gaza shut down on Thursday after running out of supplies due to the total Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory, which is starving millions of civilians.
Amjad al-Shawa, director of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO) in Gaza, told Reuters that the majority of the 170 community kitchens in Gaza have already shut down, and the few remaining will soon run out of supplies.
Just a day earlier, the World Central Kitchen, a US-based charity, announced it was forced to halt operations in Gaza.
“Everyone in Gaza today is hungry. The world must act now to save the people here,” Shawa said. “The remaining kitchens will be closing soon. The hunger catastrophe is beyond words. People are losing their lone source of food.”
Shawa said that people had relied on the community kitchens for one and a half meals per day, but in recent weeks, it was cut down to one single meal. Palestinians who are able to cook for themselves are forced to use expired and contaminated flour. Babies have been suffering, and some have died of malnutrition, since their mothers are struggling to produce breast milk, and Israel is blocking the entry of baby formula.
Israel first imposed its total blockade on March 2, and the collective punishment of Gaza’s civilian population has been strongly backed by the US. Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), who was recently elected in the House in a special election for Mike Waltz’s seat, said in a post on X that Palestinians in Gaza should “starve away.”
Reports say Israel is expected to announce a new aid mechanism soon that would involve American private security contractors controlling the aid, a plan the UN and aid groups have said is not sufficient to bring real relief to the starving population.
Israel is planning to establish the aid hubs in southern Gaza, where, under the recently approved plan for the Israeli military to escalate its offensive, Israel plans to “concentrate” the entire civilian population in Gaza before pressuring them to leave the territory. That means Israel will likely use the aid to lure Palestinians to the south as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign.
Alan MacLeod ® @AlaRMacLeod
May 6
This photo of a starving Palestinian child looking at her previous self should be seared into the public consciousness of the world.
This is what they're doing in Palestine. And the West is complicit. https://x.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/1919725692960268593
i've been homeless
ive been hungry
for days on end
Sleeping under a tree
it was not very pleasant
solo in a strange land
i was angry
i was sad
i was suicidal
i was scoffed at
by those who
didnt want to know me
but i never
had to ever
go through
1/1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
of what these human beings
are going through
So if you feel offended
in between gulps
of your cheeseburger and fries
tsk tsk too friggin' bad for ya
we all need to deal with it
its what we're for
Our taxes pay for this crime
our complicity and fear
feeds this nightmare
Maybe just maybe
some good inside you will snap
and you'll then do something about it
So i will
not shirk
i will not sanitize
i will not betray
never ever
again
This was me
so long ago
and i was alone
But i will not forget
i will not bend
what needs to be
If you find this starvation
distasteful or unsavory
good i hope you put it in your net
Do more than strike a keystroke
dare to call your rep
stare into your mirror
Feel what looks back
answer your heart
feed a fired up kickstart
Doncha think
mine does too
just another inept fool
Poignant!……!………!
The pen is a powerful friend to our collective cause: World Peace!
Or: whirled peas…..!
;-/
”The pen is mightier than the sword!”
Just one more reason for Hamas to lay down their arms and release all the hostages. Hamas has had this option for 19 months, which would have saved the good people of Gaza 19 months of grief and chaos.
Hamas deliberately and purposely invited Israel into Gaza on October 7h.
But…that doesn't fit into the narrative!
Sez aliyah booster piss stain:
'Just one more reason for Hamas to lay down their arms…
…and for you to make aliyah!
Because there's nothing more gratifying than righteously starving to death a child!' https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8455ffa3503c50169d73ac90a895284eb24542cbe53097aa285cabe6ffcc94db.png Come to Israel – Come to Zionist Paradise!
I love all children, but Hamas initiated this mess and could have stopped it at any point in the last 19 months. Israel's job is to finish Hamas so they can never again kill Israelis.
Do I need to post pictures of Hamas's handiwork to make my point? All death's in Gaza is on Hamas. They chose death over life and are very honest about that.
Dear piss stain grand dad,
One of your grandkids here, all grown up.
My child and I are dying of radiation poisoning from the latest dirty bomb here in Tel Aviv.
Israeli genocide by bombs and starvation of children, live-streamed around the world –
the perfect recruiting image for terror blowback.
Who could have predicted that, hm, piss stain?
You "loved all children," piss stain?
Too bad you loved your sick zionist dream more.
Do you know what you've done?
You've killed your children, piss stain grandpa.
You've murdered your own children.
I am sorry you're dead, because you escaped, and it is not fair you escaped watching us die.
Not like me, dying and watching my child die.
Not like the Gaza mothers who died watching their children die, slowly, in hunger.
Your emotional tirade will not change the fact that Hamas intentionally, voluntarily, and purposely invited Israel into Gaza on October 7, 2023, and have had 19 months to put a stop to this mess that they initiated.
The did lay down their arms, legs and torsos. See my post to squeek above.
Many Palestinians have laid down their arms, legs, and torsos. You have a mean spirit as all Zionists have. Your Rabbinical texts are the fountain of hatred and bigotry and have corrupted the minds of those who embrace Zionism and all the atrocities now exhibited in Palestine. There's no such thing as collective, racial or inherited sins or guilt.
Ethnic cleansing??? 2019 Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics had reported ahead of the 71st anniversary of the 1948 war that the number of Palestinians has increased by nine times since 1948. Wow, some ethnic cleansing! –sarcasm intended
What was the beginning number, oh pontificator of Israeli morals?
What he meant to say was: If there's no food, why do they need community kitchens? You have to put your entire head inside your colon to understand his point of view. It's not easy. You may have to break your neck while you're trying.
Sounds like you have plenty of experience with the inside of your lower colon.
Getting back to the topic, Gaza was running out of food, fresh water, fuel, medicine and all manner of human necessities after the first few weeks of the war. How have two million plus Gazans survived for 19 months and manage to have over 50,000 births in the last year.— Please give an academic response for the readers.
It is Hamas's choice not to end this? Israel has no choice until Hamas lays down their arms and releases all the hostages.
"What was [start] number…pontificator of Israeli morals?"
See yr point…But, 'Pop. increase over three-quarters of a century proves no ethnic cleansing happening right now'?
Goes beyond 'zionist talking points' and into land of 'so stupid as to be irrelevant.'
Seriously – I look at some right-wing threads on Gaza:
and though there is a whole lotta' supremacist and racist fear of Arab and Palestinian population growth – with major similarities to fascist 'white replacement conspiracy theory' discourse – you now get justification versus denial of ethnic cleansing.
Which makes sense. Because – besides the daily murder by bombing and starvation – the intention and strategy of ethnic cleansing is now so entirely declared and official, that war criminal zionist discourse is centered on excuses.
"We are finally going to conquer Gaza. We are no longer afraid of the word 'occupation'," Israeli finance minister …Smotrich has told a pro-settler conference in Jerusalem."
Sarcasm intended, depraved cynicism displayed.
You cannot argue with the math. There are two million Palestinian Arabs living in Israel proper as citizens on land that hypocritical activists say is ethnically cleansed.
The banner of Islam flies over 99.9% of the Middle East and North African land mass. Some people are just pisssed that it is not 100%
You pervert mathematics to justify the actions of people whose stated intent is the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. You marginalize the enormity of the crime by bean counting. I don't care if the banner of Islam flies over the moon, genocide must still be opposed.
Or how about the Jews who were forbidden to live in Gaza – which has been a center for Jewish learning since Roman times? I guess that's OK.
To add: The periodic removal of Jews from Gaza goes back at least to the Romans in 61 CE, followed much later by the Crusaders, Napoleon, the Ottoman Turks, the British and the contemporary Egyptians, and more recently Jews removed themselves from Gaza in 2005 and it appeased no one. Within a few weeks of every last Jew removing themselves from Gaza, Hamas rockets rained down on Israel. Lesson learned!
However, Jews definitely lived in Gaza throughout the centuries, with a stronger presence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. How many live there now?
"Ethnic cleansing???"
wowee will ya look at all those question marks!
piss stain's like, 'ethnic cleansing?' whuh??? huhh????? whut's he sayin'????? walla! walla! walla! ahm jist so conFUSED!'
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0ff4ea1d7f5abb637d48220b64303935f7a6f01ab697a33084fbb163e0b03d1b.png
"Tide Turns On Israel As Right-wing Newspaper And Conservatives Denounce West's Shame," Owen Jones, Youtube
So it goes, the righteous,moral Israel being itself for all to see.
"being itself for all to see."
"drunk on impunity" (Zimet, commondreams and consortiumnews)
Strange how those who survived a Holocaust, seem intent upon imposing human suffering upon others, less fortunate…..
The modern state of Israel is the Synagogue of Satan
https://scheerpost.com/2025/05/08/why-is-us-congress-silent-on-the-manmade-nightmare-it-is-enabling-in-gaza/
Well, the RCC has a new pope Will he exhibit a righteous anger and denounce in the strongest terms the atrocities in Gaza/Palestine, or will he just pussy foot around it like the previous pontiff? And, he's an American, so I'm sure Trump will give himself credit for the election, and surely he will include the white smoke with the other smoke Trump is constantly blowing.
Trump already did more or less. He also told the fib on Airforce One that the new pope already called him after he was chosen.
Welcome to Zionist Paradise.
On the positive side, Gaza is learning from DOGE. No need for "Community Kitchens" if you have NO FOOD. That's what they call, "American Leadership." You're welcome. It's a dirty, filthy, and horrific job, but somebody has to do it.
Humankind’s inhumanity is present in this photo!
Feed the hungry children!
Who will give these people bread (food) so that they might eat and not starve?! Food and fire!…..
Trump said he is going to feed them and Israel said that they with the help of America (Trump) will administer food in a controlled setting. Which in the end will amount to brainwashing or threatening the Palestinians to leave or be transported to some other country. I guess El Salvador or Libya will take them if the US pays for them.
Shame on the West and many Arab Countries.
They won't move…! They rather die in Gaza…!
How can democratic societies be so evil? Hitler must have lots of company in hell.
"How can democratic societies be so evil? Hitler must have lots of company in hell."
“Everyone has their Jews. For the Israelis they are the Palestinians.”
– Primo Levi, writer and Auschwitz survivor
(Stop the War Coalition, "From Albert Einstein to Noam Chomsky: famous Jews who have opposed Israel," 12 Aug 2014)
It is a fact of history, well established, that Bill Clinton's sanctions on Iraq directly caused the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children from starvation and lack of medical care. I don't remember any of my damned fellow Americans caring even a little for even a single one of those children. The Gazans keep crying mass starvation but we know what mass starvation looks like and Gaza hasn't even come close. Although the Israelis appear to want them to starve, sooner the better. They could wipe Gaza clean tomorrow and still be way behind us on the Muslim Civilian Butchery score card.
Nice one. Bringing up American apathy for the pig Cliton's sanctions must somehow justify Israel starving the Palestinians. And since it isn't "MASS STARVATION", what's the problem, right? But your "sooner the better" addition to the rest of that tripe makes you a special kind of sick motherfucker.
Apropos: During the Clinton years, I was only slowly becoming an anti-interventionist, and was particularly bothered by or ashamed of my participation in Desert Storm. But after that statistic about the half-million children dying under the sanctions, aerial destruction of water systems leading to cholera, etc., I started having dreams with those kids asking me why I helped kill them. The dreams got rarer later and I haven’t had one in several years, but I’m grateful for them. They pushed me over the line into the territory of morality.
”Give us your tired, your hungry and your poor!”….. …… ……. ……….
https://www.presstv.ir
”Don’t gives your tired, your hungry, your pooor!… We’re too busy making war!”…. …. …..
From Simplicius the Thinker's Substack: Even arch-neocon Thomas Friedman now says in the NYT that Israel's government is extremist and genocidal.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-establishment-slowly-wearies
Netanyahu allying with extremist parties so that he can stay in power and avoid corruption charges:
Simplicius is an excellent commentator on Palestine, Ukraine, and the foreign-affairs follies in the EU and Washington.