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Gaza suffers from ‘catastrophic’ hunger

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A UN-backed report warns that mass death is imminent without an immediate ceasefire and food supplies.

Northern Gaza has already exceeded famine levels, the global hunger monitor said on Monday. Around 300,000 people remain trapped in the Palestinian enclave amid Israeli bombardment.

The UN-backed report also warned that more than 70% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million is facing “catastrophic hunger.” The Integrated Food-Security Phase Classification (IPC) said that mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and deliveries of food aid to the areas affected by the fighting.

More than a dozen children in Gaza have already starved to death, including newborn babies, and many more are at risk as malnutrition soars and urgently needed humanitarian aid is blocked from entering the Palestinian enclave, UN aid agencies warned earlier in March.

The IPC estimated that two out of every 10,000 people will die daily from starvation, malnutrition, and disease if not helped immediately.

“The actions needed to prevent famine require an immediate political decision for a ceasefire together with a significant and immediate increase in humanitarian and commercial access to the entire population of Gaza,” the report said.

Israel has been criticized by its Western partners since it began launching retaliatory strikes against Hamas militants following their attack on Israel on October 7.

“In Gaza we are no longer on the brink of famine. We are in a state of famine,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said at the opening of a conference on humanitarian aid for Gaza in Brussels on Monday. He also accused Israel of “using starvation as a weapon of war.”

Foreign Minister Israel Katz responded by saying, “Israel allows extensive humanitarian aid into Gaza,” and told Borrell “to stop attacking Israel and recognize our right to self-defense against Hamas’ crimes.”

Efforts to reach a truce between Hamas and Israel are ongoing, with no breakthrough so far as the hostilities continue. Heavy fighting erupted on Monday in and around Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital complex. The Israeli Army said it was combatting Hamas militants there and advised civilians to evacuate.

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  1. Why are the Palestinians so stupid: Stop hating Jews, stop killing Jews, stop worshipping Satan.
    They need to abandon their religion of hate and come to the light.

    If it was not for 7 October 2023 they would not be in this condition. Simple as.
    The Palestinians need to stop playing the victim when they are the very nasty and Satan worshipping aggressor.

    They need to follow the teachings of Lord Jesus: “Love they Neighbour”.
    They need to do this soon. Time is now short.

    I really hope they come to the light but that is their choice.

    • Mark, do yourself a favour, put down your jooish coloured glasses, and educate yourself abaout the REAL history of the Israhell matter.
      Maybe start with how the Rothschild cabal has managed to put the world financial system into a scam of rort, the greatest con in human history.
      From there on, just follow the ‘money’.

      • … jooish coloured glasses …
        … Israhell …

        I know about the Rothschild’s (perhaps they are Kazarian and not actually Jewish at all?)

        I am not aware that any of the 1200 or so butchered on 7 October 2023 were Rothschild’s. They were innocent people who just wanted to live and be left alone. They were butchered in their own homes by people who relished in the sick butchery.

        However, is what you are saying that because you believe that the Rothschild’s are Jews then it is OK to butcher innocent Jews? Is that what you are saying? Are you saying that it is OK to deliberately and consciously butcher innocent Jews because there are other (alleged) Jews called Rothschild’s that you do not like? That sounds to me like racism and antisemitism.

        • What happened in oktober 2023 was only a backlash provoked by israhell a d it policy of apartheid, oppression and lawless repression.
          There are NO ” innocent jews” in israhell. Israhell reated through terrorism , murder and theft of palestinians and their assets . All israhellis are tsahal members who participate in oppression and repression of the palestinians. So they all deserved the violence backlash that happened.
          Their hatred and violence were met with same sentiments.
          At last the world can now see what israhell really is. Murderers and thieves

    • You must be kidding mate. No need to counter this argument, the facts speak for themselves. israel needs to stop or forever tarnish its already ragged reputation.

      • mark, to have a terrorist mindset, you have to have at least the project to kill someone. Accusing people of your own intentions is an old trick i recognise belonging to a certain community acquainted to terrorism actions and murder of individuals .
        I never killed anyone, not like your own kindred who even kill people to steal their assets.
        I neither ever intented to kill any one. And few things i have were acquired through work and nothing else.
        Why would i hate jews ? I am totally indifferent to what people believe.
        But i can see for myself as the world does, what that kind of ” belief” does to the mindset of the ” chosen” in israhell.
        I condemn it and will applaud when it is punished

  2. Jews interloping as Israel appear to be intoxicated on their own propaganda in mimicking the Biblical Israelites when they went into the promised land and were instructed to totally annihilate the seven Canaanite tribes resident there anything that breathed men woman and children livestock least they become thorns in your sides and briers in their eyes which they did not because race mixing would ensue and YAHWAH would have to destroy them for the very same reasons he is going to destroy them

    • Saul was given the same instruction but failed to comply and which why he was replaced
      1 Samuel 15:14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

  3. Just revolting. Israel is committing genocide backed by the US and UK establishment, so what does NZ’s do, it looks for closer ties with the aforementioned creeps, backing the crimes being committed. All the while we get this woke bullshit. Hypocrisy at its VERY worst.

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