The worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century has been unfolding live on our screens for more than one and a half years and continues to do so unabated. The world continues to look on as students get deported, people get fired, and countries get bombed in defense of the worst ethnic cleansing since the Congo Free State of the 1880s.
Now, it has been months since the last trickle of food was stopped. The final solution to the Palestinian problem seems to be starvation and expulsion of millions, as openly advocated for by President Trump and Netanyahu.
The Israelis have given evacuation orders, and all the Gazans huddled there and then got bombed there, too. The largest open-air prison yard in the world continues to see slaughter on a scale not seen in any recent wars.
Since the 18th of March, the Israeli military has managed to displace 400,000 people yet again. About 1400 or so are dead, including more than 500 or so children. All of this is in under a month and on the American taxpayer’s dime.
The excuses they give for mass starvation get more hilarious by the day, like saying that Palestinians are not doing a good job at distribution. That somehow justifies mass starvation.
Assem Al-Nabeeh, a spokesperson for the Gaza City local government, told the media that after the series of recent evacuation orders, “people are literally being displaced everywhere, on main roads, in public parks, near garbage dumps, in squares, and even in buildings that are on the verge of collapse.”
“Even before the latest evacuation orders, only 40% of the city had access to water,” Al-Nabeeh said. He said that around 175,000 tonnes of waste had piled up across the city.
The senior OCHA official working in Gaza, Jonathan Whittall, said earlier in the week that a “war without limits” was rolled out in Gaza. In a report released Friday, OCHA stated: “Gaza faces renewed risk of hunger and malnutrition as the full cargo blockade, now entering the second month, almost halts all flour distribution and shuts all subsidized bakeries.”
The World Food Programme (WFP) stated on Thursday that all of the 25 or subsidized bakeries across Gaza had shut down because of a shortage of cooking gas and flour. It went on to say that more than one million people were under fed in March, and while the provisioning of hot meals was continuing, present “supplies will last two weeks maximum.”
The Israelis claim that“ a “structured monitoring and aid entry mechanism” to stop Hamas from getting them and to be “neutral and impartial.”
They said a new system would “support aid organizations, enhance oversight and accountability, and ensure that assistance reaches the civilian population in need, rather than being diverted and stolen by Hamas.”
This system can only be rolled out once Israel stops fighting.
WFP says that around 89,000 tonnes of food are stuck outside Gaza, while food scarcity inside is driving up prices in a massive way. A bag of wheat flour is now 450% more than it was a few weeks ago.
Meanwhile, OCHA said access to water continues to be “severely constrained” – with two-thirds of Gazan families unable to get six liters (around 200 fluid ounces) of drinking water they need daily. The water supply improved in
The sanitation situation remains very bad. “Sanitation conditions across the Gaza Strip remain alarming,” OCHA said, with makeshift displacement areas on the beach filled with fleas and mites.
‘Massacre of Palestinians’
Trump is giving the Israelis an open playing field.
Gavin Kelleher of the Norwegian Refugee Council stated at the end of last month that “more than a million people remain in dire need of tents in Gaza.” However, his group had “almost nothing left to distribute despite still seeing these massive forced transfers happening every day.”
“Many people, with no alternative shelter, are staying in structurally unsound and damaged buildings, where incidents of buildings collapsing on top of men, women, and children continue to be recorded,” Kelleher added.
UNICEF said, “again been plunged into a cycle of deadly violence and deprivation.”
UNICEF says it and other agencies “have been unable to provide clothing and other essential items even to the most vulnerable of displaced children who only have the clothes they are wearing.”
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