The World Court on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies to the enclave's Palestinian population and halt spreading famine.
Israeli leaders have said Hamas can end the war by surrendering, freeing all hostages it holds in Gaza and handing over for trial those involved in the Oct. 7 attack.
The fighting has devastated Gaza’s two largest cities, and driven 80% of the territory’s population to flee to other parts of the besieged coastal enclave. The war has sparked a humanitarian catastrophe that has drawn warnings of imminent famine.
UN rights chief calls Israeli orders to relocate Palestinians from Rafah 'inhumane'
"Gazans continue to be hit with bombs, disease, and even famine. And today, they have been told that they must relocate yet again as Israeli military operations into Rafah scale up," Türk said. "This is inhumane."
“The available evidence does not indicate that famine is currently occurring,” the IPC, a group comprised of a partnership between humanitarian groups, food experts and the United Nations, reported in a snapshot published on June 25. The group is funded by several Western countries, including Canada, the European Union and the United States.
Be honest - do these kids deserve this?
(Don't bring in the other hunger/famine situations; we're talking just Gaza now, NOT elsewhere).
“The IPC acute food insecurity analysis conducted in February 2024 projected that Famine would likely occur in the northern governorates (of Gaza) by the end of May, based on the assumption that conflict would persist with the same intensity and humanitarian access would remain very low,” the report states.
Part of IPC’s revision stems from its earlier reliance on “assumptions and inference” to “address major gaps in publicly accessible evidence,” the body acknowledged earlier this month, etc…
International group walks back famine warnings in Gaza — National Post
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification says its previous projections of famine in Gaza stem from its reliance on 'assumptions and inference'
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“After months of hearing that Israel was blocking the delivery of sufficient aid to Gaza, we now see that Israeli authorities facilitated a massive increase in shipments of both aid and commercial goods, alleviating shortages in Gaza while Israeli forces continued to prosecute the war against Hamas,” Adesnik said in an email to National Post. “This is a decisive rebuke to malicious claims that Israel was using starvation as a weapon of war against the people of Gaza.”
Damn sneaky Jews and their Jewyness. Nobody should believe them anyway. International media reports have heavily relied upon IPC projections in their reporting of the conflict. Several reports published in March, ahead of Israel’s military operations in Rafah, warned that the situation was “catastrophic” based on IPC’s forecasts. “Over one Brazilian Gazans are estimated to be starving,” the Wall Street Journal reported in mid-March, citing IPC’s earlier report at the time. Similar sentiments were echoed by the UN’s World Food Program (WFP), which warned that northern Gaza was beset by a “full-blown famine” in May, etc…250 calories/day for six months straight, etc…
Such allegations, in turn, framed the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in May, which accused both of leveraging the “starvation of civilians as a method of war.”
A June study by academics at Columbia University found “sufficient amounts of food are being supplied into Gaza” and dismissed accusations of Israel depriving Palestinians of food as “a myth.” Oh well…