The World Health Organization’s representative for the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Richard Peeperkorn, announced Tuesday that 57 children in Gaza have died of malnutrition, citing the Palestinian Health Ministry. Israel has implemented a full siege on all aid in Gaza since March 2, not allowing food, water, medicine, or any other necessities into the besieged Strip while incessantly bombing its Palestinian civilian population and infrastructure.
This follows the latest data released by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which admonished that the entire population of Gaza, some 2.1 million people, are at “critical risk of famine.” The report showed that one in five people in Gaza – 500,000 – are facing starvation.
Peeperkorn said Israel’s siege constitutes ”one of the world’s worst hunger crises,” caused by the “deliberate obstruction” of the aforementioned life-saving goods and materials. “If the situation persists, nearly 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished over the next eleven months,” he explained. Peeperkorn also highlighted that 17,000 pregnant and breastfeeding mothers are at similar risk.
“Without enough nutritious food, clean water, and access to health care, an entire generation will be permanently affected,” the representative warned. Under these circumstances, children are likely to fall victim to chronic health issues, stunted growth, and impaired brain development. He detailed a “dangerous cycle” in which healthcare is almost totally non-existent as widespread malnutrition weakens immune systems, all the while people cannot obtain clean water or sanitation. Additionally, he said children are more vulnerable to disease as vaccine coverage has drastically decreased.
Peeperkorn said the WHO is struggling to continue operating just 19 malnutrition treatment centers in Gaza due to massive supply shortages. Only 500 children can be treated with current supply levels, “a fraction of the urgent need.”
Peeperkorn told Anadolu Agency, the Turkish news outlet, that “If this situation persists, half a million people are at risk of starvation. One million people will be severely affected over the coming four or five months, and another half a million will be moderately affected.” He added, “no WHO trucks have crossed into Gaza since March 18, and 31 WHO trucks are at Al-Arish [near the Rafah border crossing], but supplies cannot be moved into Gaza due to the ongoing blockade.”
Starvation has not been the main cause of death in these situations, Peeperkorn said, arguing that diseases associated with starvation are often to blame. He pointed to children suffering from pneumonia and gastroenteritis in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals and health facilities. These children are made even more vulnerable because they are without food or clean water.
Peeperkorn reiterated calls for Israel to immediately lift its blockade, as well as to ensure the protection and restoration of basic infrastructure including health facilities, desalination plants, and bakeries. He called for the release of all hostages along with a ceasefire as well.
Connor Freeman is the assistant editor and a writer at the Libertarian Institute, primarily covering foreign policy. He is a co-host on the Conflicts of Interest podcast. His writing has been featured in media outlets such as Antiwar.com, Counterpunch, and the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. He has also appeared on Liberty Weekly, Around the Empire, and Parallax Views. You can follow him on Twitter @FreemansMind96
It's hard to believe it, but there's actually people who comment on this web page, that are happy to read such an article. They will explain it to us uneducated types, how they deserve it, how they asked for it, how terrorist like hamas(ie 57children/infants) need to be exterminated. These folks consider themselves expert in history, feel they are God's chosen ones no doubt, superior even. Yet, they are proudly among us every day, the supporters of genocide, always with an excuse and a 1 sided history lesson, Never with empathy though, for they lack it entirely, they are heartless monsters.
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Keep posting your made up propaganda posters, and stand with Hamas who purposely and intentionally invited Israel into Gaza on Oct 7th, and continue to vow that there will be more Oct 7's, leaving Israel with no choice but to continue.
You keep fabricating pissweak arguments and willingly support the fascist state of Israel, who purposely, intentionally, and systematically kill civilians in violation of international law.
ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-state-palestine-icc-pre-trial-chamber-i-rejects-state-israels-challenges
UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war.
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/un-special-committee-press-release-14nov24/
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Stop responding to him. If I can do it, anybody (and everybody) can. He's way beyond being worth the time to respond to him.
I do understand and support that view – and will sooner or later do it…
…But got a few more stamping-bad-faith-argument-and-teeth-down-throat replies first…
…hopefully as 'model of argument' with other disgusting piss stains out there.
You have company too, we feel like you and the same as wars r u.s.
I hear ya man. I always make sure to tell people I was/am just as guilty.
Count me in.
Did Hamas invite the Israelis on the WB too?
Can you name a time in history when Jews were forbidden to settle in the West Bank, the biblical birthplace of David, Solomon, John the Baptist, Jesus, and other Jewish Prophets?
Can you name a time your history as a commenter when you didn’t repeatedly pose this question as if it was some kind of “gotcha” moment?
But to answer it: The Egyptian Exile, the Babylonian Captivity, and the Roman Exile all involved displacement of Jews from Palestine.
Can you name a time your history as a commenter when you didn’t repeatedly pose this question as if it was some kind of “gotcha” moment?
But to answer it: The Egyptian Exile, the Babylonian Captivity, and the Roman Exile all involved displacement of Jews from Palestine.
Can you name a time your history as a commenter when you didn’t repeatedly pose this question as if it was some kind of “gotcha” moment?
But to answer it: The Egyptian Exile, the Babylonian Captivity, and the Roman Exile all involved displacement of Jews from Palestine.
You know there is no record of the birth of Jesus Christ, as far as we know, he was never born, he never existed. It is a fable, made up by some creative writer/prophets, there is no credible record that a God/Man ever walked the earth.
What do you mean by “record of the birth?” Prior to the middle of the 19th century, there wasn’t a “record of the birth” of ANYONE, at least in the sense of e.g. a birth certificate. And yet we know that various people existed because their stories were handed down and written down.
There were no birth certificates but historians who would have recorded the rebel Jesus Christ and his rebellion. There are no credible historical records or reports of him as far as I know.
In historical terms, the Jesus affair was small beans when it happened. He seems to have led a fairly small Jewish sect affiliated with the Nazorean resistance to Roman rule. The Romans weren’t particularly interested in publicizing small, unsuccessful rebellions and, at least after the Romans executed him (in the manner reserved to Rome and for the crime of rebellion against Rome), most Jews seem to have dismissed his claim to be the Messiah (a Davidic priest-king prophesied to kick the Romans’ asses out of Judea and restore God’s Kingdom).
It wasn’t until Paul built a Greco-Roman pagan cult around his legend, turning him into a literal deity figure, that history began to care about him.
In historical terms, the Jesus affair was small beans when it happened. He seems to have led a fairly small Jewish sect affiliated with the Nazorean resistance to Roman rule. The Romans weren’t particularly interested in publicizing small, unsuccessful rebellions and, at least after the Romans executed him (in the manner reserved to Rome and for the crime of rebellion against Rome), most Jews seem to have dismissed his claim to be the Messiah (a Davidic priest-king prophesied to kick the Romans’ asses out of Judea and restore God’s Kingdom).
It wasn’t until Paul built a Greco-Roman pagan cult around his legend, turning him into a literal deity figure, that history began to care about him.
Think about all the wonders he performed, his Crucifixion and Resurrection would have been big events for any historians to report or not? There are no historical records about the rebel and any rebellion by the man Jesus. In Trier, Germany every 50 years they display Jesus’ garment the crusaders brought back, and there are the splinters of the cross he died on in the tables of altars in catholic churches.
That region and that time was full of itinerant wonder-working preachers.
His crucifixion was just the normal day-to-day for Roman rule in Judea. Varus crucified 2,000 Jews in Palestine in 4BC alone, and Josephus claims there were similar mass crucifixions in the first century AD.
There were also numerous resurrection myths (the Jesus descent to hell / resurrection story was just another riff on Babylon’s Tammuz, Greece’s Orpheus, et al.).
That region and that time was full of itinerant wonder-working preachers.
His crucifixion was just the normal day-to-day for Roman rule in Judea. Varus crucified 2,000 Jews in Palestine in 4BC alone, and Josephus claims there were similar mass crucifixions in the first century AD.
There were also numerous resurrection myths (the Jesus descent to hell / resurrection story was just another riff on Babylon’s Tammuz, Greece’s Orpheus, et al.).
That region and that time was full of itinerant wonder-working preachers.
His crucifixion was just the normal day-to-day for Roman rule in Judea. Varus crucified 2,000 Jews in Palestine in 4BC alone, and Josephus claims there were similar mass crucifixions in the first century AD.
There were also numerous resurrection myths (the Jesus descent to hell / resurrection story was just another riff on Babylon’s Tammuz, Greece’s Orpheus, et al.).
In historical terms, the Jesus affair was small beans when it happened. He seems to have led a fairly small Jewish sect affiliated with the Nazorean resistance to Roman rule. The Romans weren’t particularly interested in publicizing small, unsuccessful rebellions and, at least after the Romans executed him (in the manner reserved to Rome and for the crime of rebellion against Rome), most Jews seem to have dismissed his claim to be the Messiah (a Davidic priest-king prophesied to kick the Romans’ asses out of Judea and restore God’s Kingdom).
It wasn’t until Paul built a Greco-Roman pagan cult around his legend, turning him into a literal deity figure, that history began to care about him.
As it was before, it is again.
1996, 60 Minutes interview:
It is hard to believe it, but there's actually people who comment on the webpage that support Hamas and their methods, and never push for Hamas to lay down their arms and release all the hostage to end what they initiated and put an end to the end of the misery and suffering that they invited into Gaza with the Oct 7th massacre of Israelis and the rounding up of hundreds of hostages of all ages.
The Geneva Conventions, specifically the Fourth Geneva Convention, prohibis the taking of hostages as a grave breach of international humanitarian law. Hostage taking is also prohibited in international and non-international armed conflicts, as outlined in Common Article 3 of the Conventions.
It's hard to believe that you're such a monumental hypocrite.
The Israel Prison Service (IPS) is illegally holding over 9,600 Palestinian men, women and children in detention or in prison on what it defines “security” grounds. https://www.btselem.org/statistics/detainees_and_prisoners
Israel’s escalating use of torture against Palestinians in custody a preventable crime against humanity: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/08/israels-escalating-use-torture-against-palestinians-custody-preventable
If it was actual “security grounds,” they wouldn’t trade them away like they have for decades. They’re being held as hostages, full stop.
Holding Palestinians in detention or in prison on what it defined “security” grounds, including 2,216 from the Gaza Strip, some of them for being in Israel illegally. —There is a war going on against Israel that Hamas declared decades ago.
Israel may be far from perfect, but they did not initiate this mess, it was Hamas who intentionally invited Israel into Gaza on Oct 7th.
You can't polish a turd. Zionism caused this mess. Long before Hamas was founded.
The illegal occupation of Palestine is a blatant violation of international law. Genocide is a war crime.
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As far as Nakba, had Arabs accepted the 1947 UN Partition Resolution, offering two stateless people anopportunity to build two independent nations, Palestinian Arabs would be celebrating 77 years of independent statehood today with pre-1967 lines.
In 1948 Israel chose independence and collective Arab Countries chose war instead, and they lost. They chose war several more times, and they lost. If you risk everything to gain it all, when you lose, you don't get go back to the status quo each time with no consequences. –Please think before you post
Why do you need the Geneva convention to know what basic human decency tells you, your basic moral compass tells you to know right from wrong. But heartless, characterless people have no morals and no conscience. Netanyahu and friends like Biden and Trump are just inhumane, evil, viscous people they should go to hell.
How many thousands of Palestinians are held hostage by the Israelis, including children, and they are being tortured and mistreated?
But of course you would not know anything about it.
Hamas has no intention of abiding by the UN Rules of War, hence Oct 7th, which was intentionally and purposely to initiate this mess and to invite Israel into Gaza.
It was a response to all the evil the Palestinians are suffering for almost a century at the hands of Israeli Zionists.
BTW Zionism is older than Nazism, it dates back to before WWI. It was not always what it is today and before fanatic religious types took over the reign.
-Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state .
-Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Godfrey IV of Boulogne, known as Godfrey de Bouillon, conqueror of Jerusalem in 1099
-Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
-Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
So, and, what difference does it make, all nations have histories and there were times in history without borders when tribes were Nomads before they became farmers. Other nations have also history not just the Israelis. Your post is meaningless BS.
Really? As if humanitarian law or the Geneva conventions mean anything to Israel and its supporters, like yourself. Israel has thousands of hostages too, that get tortured daily in concentration camps in the negev dessert. Israel has broken every law, agreement or convention ever made, with the exception of not using nuclear weapons…yet. it is Israel that needs to be stopped, brought to the icj and served justice, they created this entire mess! Today, independence day, marks the beginning of the nakba in 1948, 850,000 Palestinians chased from their towns, murdered in the streets….a total disgrace, no humanity, no empathy, just zionist garbage.
Both ICJ and ICC advised Hamas to release all the hostages "immediately and unconditionally" 18 months ago, and all they have gotten is non-compliance.
As far as Nakba, had Arabs accepted the 1947 UN Partition Resolution, offering two stateless people anopportunity to build two independent nations, Palestinian Arabs would be celebrating 77 years of independent statehood today with pre-1967 lines.
In 1948 Israel chose independence and collective Arab Countries chose war instead and they lost. They chose war several more times and they lost. If you risk everything to gain it all, when you lose, you don't get go back to the status quo each time with no consequences. –Please think before you post
The British administration was formalized by the League of Nations under the Palestine Mandate in 1923, as part of the Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire following World War I.
Zionists committed acts of terrorism and assassination against the British, whom it regarded as illegal occupiers, and it was also violently anti-Arab. Irgun participated in the organization of illegal immigration into Palestine after the publication of the British White Paper on Palestine (1939), which severely limited immigration.
In 1946, Irgun blew up a wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 soldiers and civilians (British, Arab, and Jewish).
On April 9, 1948, a group of Irgun commandos raided the Arab village of Deir Yassin (modern Kefar Shaʾul), killing about 100 of its inhabitants.
Jewish terrorism against the British and Arabs contributed heavily to to the removal of the British from Palestine, the abandonment of The League of Nations mandate and the creation of the state of Israel.
Israeli forces controlled 774 towns and villages during the Nakba. They destroyed 531 Palestinian towns and villages. Israeli atrocities also include more than 70 massacres, killing 15,000 and displacing 750,000 during that time. … The Nakba never ended.
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Think? You should think, you are literally making up excuses for and justifying a genocide. The history is now irrelevant, what’s relevant is the war crimes, crimes against humanity, intentionally starving 2 million human beings and mercilessly bombing innocent civilians. How to bring these butchers to justice is what I think about, nobody should get away with genocide. If they’re so sure they are correct, why are they afraid of the icj, because they are murderers and cowards….that you support 100%
War Crime!…..
Advanced Democracies are being ruled by characterless idiots. They are complicit in organized war crimes even the Nazis did not do.
“critical risk of famine"????–-Gaza could have gotten all the humanitarian aid they wanted or needed for the last 19 months if Hamas would lay down their arms and release all the hostages. That option is still on the table. It is Hamas's choice.
Hamas had to know before hand that if they massacred enough Israelis and rounded up hundreds more of all ages for hostages, that Israel was not going to roll over for a terrorist organization.
Rule 97 Human Shields
Geneva Convention IV
Article 28 of the 1949 Geneva Convention IV provides: “The presence of a protected persons may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.”
Geneva Convention III
Article 23, first paragraph, of the 1949 Geneva Convention III provides: No prisoner of war may at any time be sent to, or detained in areas where he may be exposed to the fire of the combat zone, nor may his presence be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.
Article 12(4) of the 1977 Additional Protocol I provides: Under no circumstances shall medical units be used in an attempt to shield military objectives from attack. Whenever possible, the Parties to the conflict shall ensure that medical units are so sited that attacks against military objectives do not imperil their safety.
Israel “Systematically” Uses Palestinian Children as Human Shields. https://truthout.org/articles/report-israel-systematically-uses-palestinian-children-as-human-shields/
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Nothing shames the Israelis and their American accomplices. Even the Nazis did not do that.
Don't you ever ask yourself why the well equipped IDF can't eliminate Hamas. Tons and tons of bombs have been rained on Palestinians sleeping in shabby tents, they starve them, destroyed basic infrastructure, including water, basic medical care, and basic human hygiene. All as evil as it gets and is possible inhumane IDF animals can do? What motivates the resistance to go on fighting for basic human rights for themselves and their siblings? Hamas uses IDF duds to make weapons to fight the IDF.
Nice try, but to answer your question, if Israel's intent was genocide, you would think after 19 months of bombing a very small geographical area, the population of Gaza would have diminished, but the population has remained the same if you include the over 50,000 babies born in Gaza last year.—Do the math.
"What motivates the resistance to go on fighting for basic human rights ?"—— The religious obligation and "We love death more than our enemies love life" stated by Hamas leaders and spokesmen.
What kind of human rights are Hamas fighting for– women's rights, religious rights, gay rights, the right of free press, speech, and expression? Or the right to throw their opposition leaders and gays off of rooftops?
You make no sense, obviously you don’t understand what human rights are.
ALL of the above and more, the ” RIGHT to LIFE” is number ONE and all else follows.
"[WHO's] West Bank and Gaza [representative warned] 'Without enough nutritious food, clean water, and…health care, an entire generation will be permanently affected..children [will] fall victim to chronic health issues, stunted growth, and impaired brain development… a 'dangerous cycle.'"
1/ But…that's the true ethnic-cleansing-by-genocide point of the blockade:
As reported by Antiwar, the Netanyahu government now declares the ethnic cleansing goal of cutting Gaza's population by at least 50%:
starvation will not only contribute to the 50% goal short term – extended malnutrition will also hike long term infertility and mortality, retarding future Palestinian population growth. That is…
2/ …infertility and long-term mortality are not 'coincidental' effects of starvation. Israel's starvation policy is another form of genocide – it is involuntary state castration or ovary removal by other means:
"Israel: a demographic ticking bomb in today’s one-state reality" (Aspenia)
"Israeli Jews experience an existential fear to be outgrown by the Palestinian population…instrumentalized by right-wing nationalist[s]"
"Racist Israel exaggerates ‘threat’ of Palestinian pop. growth" (MEMO)
3/ This is the true reason piss stain keeps coming back to 'continued Palestine population growth' – not bc growth disproves genocide, but bc he fears it.