This is the reality of what Israel is doing (part 2)

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/28/one-in-five-pregnant-women-in-gaza-clinic-are-malnourished-doctors-warn

I don’t want to derail the thread, but in short I am certain that as ordinary citizens, and in the grand schemes of things, we are seen as entirely dispensable and insignificant to the majority of those in power. Some people in my opinion will only care when it’s inconvenient for them not to. Minority groups and vulnerable people are often really easy for them to not care about.

A joint US/Jordanian initiative airdropped 38,000 meals (on 66 pallets) into Gaza yesterday.

This was covered on the news this morning. It's unbelievable. The evil of Israel knows no bounds. Absolutely deplorable carry on.

I saw a video of one of those meals being unwrapped on another . It included a packet of sweets, ‘Skittles’, I think, and packets to make up ‘chilli con carne’ - maybe by adding water ( ?)

The food is probably made so as to pack up neatly and not be too heavy for an airdrop. Perhaps these meals were originally made for soldiers’ knapsacks.

Packets like these must help, but probably are not adequate at all for easing large scale malnutrition.

See that Canada is also re-starting funding for UNWRA but if Israel won't let them deliver food aid it doesn't help the starving people

It's actually not the US flour that WFP tried to deliver yesterday - enough to feed 1.5 million - that's still stalled

Why isn't the US getting really angry about this?

So what's the excuse? Is the World Food Programme anti-semitic/Hamas?

No explanation, no reason given - it is the UN WFP so maybe that's the problem

It's such a huge amount to withhold - also wonder what happened to the 1000 containers of dried goods donated by Turkey stranded at a port in Israel that went went out of the news before any signs of it being delivered

This is the report

US flour shipment to Gaza still stalled weeks later: Report

A large US shipment of flour intended for Gaza remains stalled 46 days after the White House first announced it and nearly two weeks since a new framework was agreed with Israel for its delivery, a US official has told the Times of Israel.

The official did not elaborate on what was causing the delay to the delivery of the flour, which is capable of feeding 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza for five months. The official said the shipment “should be delivered in the coming days”, the Times of Israel reports.

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich blocked the flour’s transfer in early February, stating that it would be distributed through UNRWA, which he called “a central part” of Hamas’s “war machine”.

The revised framework stated that the US flour shipment would be distributed by the UN’s World Food Programme.

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Hideous. How anyone can treat Israel like a civilised democracy at this stage is beyond me.

@Efacsen I read this yesterday regarding the flour shipment. Apparently Biden is really angry that it still has not been allowed through but clearly not enough to do anything significant about it. Its enough flour to feed 1.5million Gazans for 5 months and should have been delivered weeks ago.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/2-weeks-since-new-framework-okayed-for-sending-flour-to-gaza-us-shipment-still-stalled-official/#:~:text=A%20large%20US%20shipment%20of,tells%20The%20Times%20of%20Israel.

I think what's causing the delay is probably a case of "we don't really want to do that and we don't think the US will make us do it so we're not doing it".

And as said before, will cause Jews all over the world so much grief- as people around the globe see what is happening and will associate it with them. EVen more so in the arab and african world, and all non 'western' countries, but even there, as it becomes impossible not to be aware of the genocide now taking place and the plans for the future of Palestine.

Israel has the right to defend the 1948 territory- but few people seem to be aware that current Israel is more than 10 times over 1948, and has been ILLEGALLY settled, by the foulest of means, since then. How can anyone have the right to defend territory which has been illegally taken?

It shouldn't make Jewish people around the world unsafe and It would be wrong for people to associate it with them. The same way it was wrong when people associated 9/11 with all Muslims.

Miller commented yesterday on the flour which is why it was reported in the times, maybe je thinks criticising openly will make a difference which I'm hoping it does.
"You have seen ministers in the Israeli Government block the release of flour from the port at Ashdod; you have seen ministers of the Israeli Government supporting protests that blocked aid from going in to Kerem Shalom,” he says, referring to far-right cabinet members Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir respectively. “All of those things are obstacles coming from ministers inside the Israeli Government that we have called out, that we have said are unacceptable, and that we have said should end.”

Cameron is meeting with Gantz today where he said he is going to tell him that the UK's 'patience is running thin' with Israel constantly blocking aid into Gaza

From sky

"I spoke some weeks ago about the danger of this tipping into famine and the danger of illness tipping into disease - and we are now at that point.
"People are dying of hunger; people are dying of otherwise preventable diseases," he said, adding that the amount of aid entering Gaza last month was half that in January.
"The patience needs to run very thin and a whole series of warnings needs to be given, starting, I hope, with a meeting I have with minister Gantz when he visits the UK tomorrow."

We are way past the patience running thin stage!!

The time for warnings has come and been.

90% of children are affected by an infection disease. The world has failed these children.

‘Unicef has highlighted that 90% of children under five eat fewer than two food groups a day, which is defined as “severe food poverty”, while roughly 90% are affected by an infectious disease, including 70% with diarrhoea’

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/06/colleagues-starvation-gaza-no-precedent-famine

Someone who has just left Gaza.

I'm sorry you feel so confused by it all.

It much be difficult to be in such emotional turmoil.

It's difficult to watch people and states supporting genocide, definitely. I'm sure you'll agree.

I can't agree when it is "alleged" genocide - it hasn't been proved.

The law must take it's course, that's how it works.

So what do you call the deliberate starvation of millions of people? And does it not bother you? @Littlebowiepeep

It's not 'alleged genocide' as per the ICJ it's 'plausible genocide' - quite different

Still, it hasn't come back to court has it?

Until there's a resolution/ruling I'm not going to get involved with speculations and emotive hyperbolic rhetoric.

And the situation in Gaza has significantly deteriorated in the 5 weeks since the ICJ made that ruling

Plus the ICJ aren't the only experts in the field

You have made a couple of unproved assumptions. viz that "millions" are starving, and that it is "deliberate".

I'm not going to lose sleep over speculations.

There is so much misinformation coming out of Gaza it isn't possible to know what the answers are.

No doubt the ICJ will review the situation at some stage.