*Israel’s “targeted starvation campaign” against Palestinians in Gaza is a form of “genocidal violence,”* they said. by Sharon Zhang, Truthout, July 9, 2024 https://truthout.org/articles/un-experts-israels-genocidal-starvation-has-created-famine-in-all-of-gaza/ . . . Indeed, Israel has worked diligently in the last nine months to destroy all systems that support life in Gaza — a goal that was apparent from their concerted attacks on food, water, education and health systems just in the first weeks of the genocide. In recent months, Israel has only worsened its humanitarian aid blockade, forcing tens of thousands of children in Gaza to experience crisis levels of hunger.
Since October, at least 34 Palestinians have died from malnutrition, according to Palestinian officials. However, the true number of deaths from Israel’s starvation campaign is likely unable to be accounted for due to Israel’s destruction, and may be far, far higher. . . . *UN Experts Say 'Targeted Starvation Campaign' by Israel Has Led to Famine Across Gaza* *The starvation of Palestinians in Gaza "is a form of genocidal violence," said 10 rights experts.* by Julia Conley, Common Dreams, July 9 https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-famine-2668710120 . . . Michael Fakhri, special rapporteur on the right to food, was joined in the statement by other experts including Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, and Paula Gaviria Betancur, special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons. They said the recent deaths of three children in various parts of the enclave led the experts, who do not speak on behalf of the United Nations as a whole, to declare a famine has taken hold. . . . The U.N. experts said that with the first death of a child from malnutrition and dehydration, it should have been considered "irrefutable that famine has taken hold." "When a two-month-old baby and 10-year-old Yazan Al Kafarneh died of hunger on February 24 and March 4, respectively, this confirmed that famine had struck northern Gaza," they said. "The whole world should have intervened earlier to stop Israel's genocidal starvation campaign and prevented these deaths... Inaction is complicity." . . . In May, Human Rights Watch co-founder Aryeh Neier, who had previously hesitated to say Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, said Israel's "sustained policy of obstructing the movement of humanitarian assistance into the territory" ultimately convinced him that Israeli officials are "engaged in genocide." In March, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to ensure its military refrain from violating the Genocide Convention by preventing humanitarian aid from reaching people in Gaza, saying that "the catastrophic living conditions of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have deteriorated further" and that "famine is setting in." . . . The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on the U.S. government, the biggest international funder of Israel's military and a persistent defender of its actions in Gaza, to ensure that a cease-fire agreement is reached and that Palestinians receive necessary humanitarian aid. "The intentional starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza can only occur with the active complicity of the Biden administration in Israel's campaign of genocide," said Ibrahim Hooper, national communications director for the group. "This complicity must end, and the Palestinian people must be offered a future in which they are free of occupation and can live in dignity." # # # -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31079): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31079 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107134226/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
