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@UN_News_Centre - UN News
“These are not conditions for human beings” - @UNRWA The latest on Gaza from UN agencies: 🔷 25,000 civilians have been killed 🔷 70% were women & children 🔷 1.7 million are displaced 🔷 570,000 people face catastrophic hunger 🔷 Health facilities are decimated https://t.co/4kSqPQ0rvh
@DrMadsGilbert - Dr. Mads Gilbert
“These are not conditions for human beings” - @UNRWA The latest on Gaza from UN agencies: - 25,000 civilians have been killed by ISrael - of which 17,500 are children and women (70%) - 1.7 million are displaced - 570,000 people face catastrophic hunger due to the ISraeli siege - Health facilities are decimated by ISrael
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
A brief history of Israel’s 33-year long policy of starving Gaza. A 🧵
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
It’s been 5 weeks since @hrw said Israel was starving Palestinians “as a weapon of war.” 5 weeks since the @UN said >1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving; 5 weeks since the @WHO said the risk of famine is “increasing each day;” hrs since the @UN said “everyone in Gaza is hungry”
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
The famine unfolding before our eyes did not begin 3 months ago. It began 33yrs ago, when, in Jan 1991, Israel required all Palestinians in Gaza to obtain permits to enter Israel. Overnight, Israel threatened the livelihoods of 40% of Gaza, then employed in Israel. Source:
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Israel's permit regime begot its lockdown regime, which is when the food insecurity in Gaza first reached emergency levels. Israel imposed lockdowns for 64 days in '94, 84 days in '95 & 90 days in '96. During periods of total lockdowns, unemployment reached 70% in the Gaza Strip. The @WFP launched an emergency food operation in 1996 in Gaza, targeting 10,000 families struggling to eat. Source: https://odihpn.org/publication/food-security-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Israel brought back its lockdown regime in the early 2000s, bringing hunger back as well. The @WFP launched another “emergency operation” from 2002-4, assisting hundreds of thousands of people in need of emergency food aid in Gaza. Source: https://odihpn.org/publication/food-security-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
The Israeli military tightened the noose around Gaza again in June 2007. Here is a graph of the # of exits of people from Gaza. From 6M in 2000 to 11K in 2007. The siege began. A declaration of war on all 2M Palestinians in Gaza. Source: https://palestine.beehiiv.com/p/no-moral-equivalency-israel-hamas
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
Israel wanted to make the people of Gaza suffer, but not starve. At the time, Israel didn’t think the world would allow it to actually starve Palestinians to death in Gaza. (Turns out they were wrong about that). And so, to ensure no starvation took place, the Israeli Health Ministry began to calculate the caloric needs of the population of Gaza & allow that much food in. Dov Weisglass, an adviser to former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, summed up Israel’s policy this way: “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” Source: https://www.haaretz.com/2012-10-17/ty-article/.premium/israels-gaza-quota-2-279-calories-a-day/0000017f-e0f2-d7b2-a77f-e3f755550000
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
By 2022, Gaza’s population was on the brink of collapse. A 2022 UN report found that: > 76% of households were worried about not having enough food to eat > 54% of Gazas had to borrow money for food > 52% had to reduce expenses on health to put enough food on the table > 46% had to reduce or cease payment on utilities like electricity to put enough food on the table. > households spent 56% of their money on food source: https://www.ochaopt.org/msna/2022/Key-Sectoral-Findings_Factsheet-Booklet_MSNA-2022_Gaza.pdf
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
I'm covering this unfolding famine in my newsletter, Palestinian in Your Inbox: https://palestinenexus.com/
@Gaza_Psych - Dr. Mustafa Elmasri
We, the hunger experts in Gaza declare it is already a FAMINE, I have seen several cases of acute malnutrion in children, very hard to secure food, thank you unicef, or do you want me to beg...
@Timesofgaza - TIMES OF GAZA
Pictured below is one of the many premature babies born into the world suffering from malnutrition due to the ongoing Israeli aggression and siege imposed on Gaza. https://t.co/uFz85FH33d
@DrMadsGilbert - Dr. Mads Gilbert
Massacred by Israeli fire in Gaza while collecting food aid - 100 killed and about 750 wounded So, The ISraeli fascist army is not satisfied with starving six babies and one 17-years old to death? Now they also shoot to mass kill starving Palestinian civilians hoping for rare trucks with food? How low can they sink? Dr. Mads Massacred by Israeli fire in Gaza while collecting food aid More than 100 killed and about 750 wounded after Israeli forces fired at Palestinians trying to get flour for their families as famine stalks the Strip. More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis. The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Thursday said at least 104 people were killed and more than 750 wounded, with the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemning what it said was a cold-blooded “massacre”. The ministry said the attack was part of Israel’s ongoing “genocidal war”. It called on the international community to “urgently intervene” to forge a ceasefire as “the only way to protect civilians”. People had congregated at al-Rashid Street, where aid trucks carrying flour were believed to be on the way. Al Jazeera verified footage showing the bodies of dozens of killed and wounded Palestinians being carried onto trucks as no ambulances could reach the area. “We went to get flour. The Israeli army shot at us. There are many martyrs on the ground and until this moment we are withdrawing them. There is no first aid,” said one witness. Reporting from the scene, Al Jazeera’s Ismail al-Ghoul said that after opening fire, Israeli tanks advanced and ran over many of the dead and injured bodies. “It is a massacre, on top of the starvation threatening citizens in Gaza,” he said. The dead and wounded had been taken to four medical centres: al-Shifa, Kamal Adwan, Ahli and the Jordanian hospitals. Ambulances could not reach the area as the roads had been “totally destroyed”, said al-Ghoul. “The numbers will rise. Hospitals are no longer able to accommodate the huge number of patients because they lack fuel, let alone medicine. Hospitals have also run out of blood.” Reporting from occupied East Jerusalem, Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith said the Israeli military “initially tried to pin the blame on the crowd” saying that dozens were hurt as a consequence of being crushed and trampled when aid trucks arrived. “And then, after some pushing the Israelis went on to say that their troops felt threatened, that hundreds of troops approached their troops in a way they posed a threat to them so they responded by opening fire,” Smith added. The United States described the killings as a “serious incident”, adding that it was looking into the reports. ‘Beyond words’ One Palestinian man told Quds News Network the military attack was a “crime”. “I have been waiting since yesterday. At about 4:30 this morning, trucks started to come through. Once we approached the aid trucks, the Israeli tanks and warplanes started firing at us, as if it was a trap. “To the Arab states I say, if you want to have us killed, why are you sending relief aid? If this continues, we do not want any aid delivered at all. Every convoy coming means another massacre.” Jadallah al-Shafei, the head of the nurses’ department at al-Shifa Hospital, said that “the situation is beyond any words”, adding that “the hospital was flooded with dozens of dead bodies and hundreds of injured”. “The majority of the victims suffered gunshots and shrapnel in the head and upper parts of their bodies. They were hit by direct artillery shelling, drone missiles and gun firing,” he told Al Jazeera. Systematic attacks The mass shooting was the latest instance of systematic attacks on hungry people waiting for scraps of food. Over the past few days, Palestinians gathered in large groups waiting for aid trucks on Salah al-Din Street near Gaza City have been shot at by Israeli forces, said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah in the enclave’s south. Recently, a truck that was supposed to deliver aid to people in Gaza tragically turned into the truck carrying those injured and killed, he added. With aid agencies unable to deliver supplies to northern Gaza since January 23, many are taking a long trek towards the south by foot. Famine On Wednesday, Carl Skau, deputy executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP), told the United Nations Security Council more than 500,000, or one in four people, were at risk of famine, with one in every six children below the age of two considered acutely malnourished. “The risk of famine is being fuelled by the inability to bring critical food supplies into Gaza in sufficient quantities, and the almost impossible operating conditions faced by our staff on the ground,” he said. He described dangerous conditions for WFP trucks trying to get food to the north earlier this month. “There were delays at checkpoints; they faced gunfire and other violence; food was looted along the way; and at their destination, they were overwhelmed by desperately hungry people,” said Skau. Aid agencies claim that Israel has been delaying deliveries. Israel denies that charge. It submitted a report to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the measures taken to avert suffering in the besieged enclave. Rights groups say Israel acted in breach of the ICJ order issued in January. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said on Sunday on social media that calls to allow food distribution in Gaza amid the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Hamas have been denied or “have fallen on deaf ears”. Warning against “looming famine”, the UN official said the situation was becoming a “man-made disaster”. Israel launched a deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip following a Hamas-led attack on October 7. More than 30,000 people are reported to have been killed to date, mostly women and children. SOURCE: AL JAZEERA 🔗 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/29/dozens-killed-injured-by-israeli-fire-in-gaza-while-collecting-food-aid
@javeria_sultan1 - Javeria Sultan
Gaza | Heartbreaking to see these children in a Rafah clinic, starving and gradually fading away infront of their parents. https://t.co/zT88KhfxyW
@QudsNen - Quds News Network
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini stated that the number of children reported killed in just over 4 months in Gaza is higher than the number of children killed in 4 years of wars around the world combined. https://t.co/k7kRGyPaKg
@Fahadali682521 - Global Current News
UNICEF reports that one in three babies under two in northern Gaza are suffering from acute malnutrition. This condition causes the body to consume itself, leading to painful death for children. If treated with therapeutic feeding, these babies can survive, but often face lifelong challenges, including cognitive impairment, if they survive.
@mrjamesob - James O'Brien
@MyLordBebo - Lord Bebo
🇺🇳🇮🇱🇵🇸 Unrwa Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has warned that Israel's efforts to dismantle the agency could have devastating consequences. Accelerating Gaza’s famine and dooming generations of children to despair. https://t.co/1piCbfJ8Z2
@shiraz_lall - Shiraz Lall
Hundreds of thousands more could face starvation as Israel continues to “use starvation as a weapon of war” in Gaza, where 70% of the population is estimated to be experiencing catastrophic hunger. https://t.co/jTs2yKS5hE
@ecomarxi - Tiberius
Children are having heart attacks in Gaza because of the adrenaline. Children? Children are having heart attacks in Gaza because of the adrenaline. Heart attacks? Children are having heart attacks in Gaza because of the adrenaline. CHILDREN. HEART ATTACKS. Fuck everything.
@HoyPalestina - Palestina Hoy
Un joven palestino del norte de Gaza llora por su hija, que corre riesgo inminente de morir a causa de la desnutrición severa. https://t.co/nvHLBD8Lc2
@MiddleEastEye - Middle East Eye
Displaced Palestinian children living in tents in central Gaza are suffering from skin infections which are exacerbated by the extreme heat inside the tents, the lack of clean water and hygiene products, and by sewage pollution, which has no drainage channels https://t.co/UDSAU2h5aS
@Robert_Martin72 - Robert Martin 🇵🇸
There are “catastrophic levels of hunger” across the Gaza Strip resulting from “human action,” Unrwa chief Philippe Lazzarini said on Monday. “In the last nine months, we have witnessed unprecedented failures of humanity in a territory marked by decades of violence,” Lazzarini told the UN agency’s advisory commission. “Children are dying of malnutrition and dehydration, while food and clean water wait in trucks.” Israeli forces have in recent weeks tightened their eight-month siege of the Gaza Strip, blocking the delivery of life-saving food and medical items. They have also increased attacks on aid and service workers. The Israeli policy has worsened the starvation crisis, especially in the northern Gaza Strip, where four children died of malnutrition over the past week. “The breakdown of civil order has resulted in rampant looting and smuggling that impede the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid,” Lazzarini said.
@BronzyGuevara - 🇮🇪 Brónzy 🇮🇪
Starving children in Gaza are forced to eat tree leaves and plants, as the Israeli regime continues to illegally deny the entry of food aid into northern Gaza where famine occurs. #CenturyCrime #Gaza #Famine https://t.co/aspjx8O5pa
@MiddleEastEye - Middle East Eye
Dangerous skin diseases are spreading among displaced Palestinian children in Gaza. According to the World Health Organization, more than 150,000 people in the Palestinian territory have contracted skin diseases due to the squalid conditions displaced people in the enclave have been forced to live in since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.
@ShaykhSulaiman - Sulaiman Ahmed
Palestinian children search for food in the trash amid the famine in Gaza. This is we are funding https://t.co/lpIeYLIvdH
@Raminho - Rami Ayari
Chilling #UNSC briefing from @save_children's Operations Lead in the Emergency Health Unit in #Gaza Louisa Baxter. Am told it's the first briefing SC has received via video from the Strip since war began. Speech focus was on polio but this quote stands out as well: "Our protection teams in Gaza are working with children released from the Israeli military detention system. These children report sexual violence, including rape. They report being denied food, beaten, and attacked by dogs. They report seeing their parents stripped and beaten in front of them. These children are struggling to cope with the profound trauma and mental and physical harm that this has caused."
@malsaafin - Mohammad Alsaafin
Save the Children’s Operations Lead in Gaza on children released from Israeli detention: “These children report sexual violence, including rape.”
@Raminho - Rami Ayari
Chilling #UNSC briefing from @save_children's Operations Lead in the Emergency Health Unit in #Gaza Louisa Baxter. Am told it's the first briefing SC has received via video from the Strip since war began. Speech focus was on polio but this quote stands out as well: "Our protection teams in Gaza are working with children released from the Israeli military detention system. These children report sexual violence, including rape. They report being denied food, beaten, and attacked by dogs. They report seeing their parents stripped and beaten in front of them. These children are struggling to cope with the profound trauma and mental and physical harm that this has caused."
@UNRWA - UNRWA
Our latest on the situation in the📍#GazaStrip and the📍#WestBank 🔹#Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees per capita anywhere in the world. 🔹945,000 displaced people in Gaza are at risk of exposure to cold weather and rain this winter. 🔹As of 1 December, due to lack of safety, UNRWA has had to pause aid delivery through Kerem Shalom/Karem Abu Salem, the main crossing point for humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-150-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-jerusalem
@EyeonPalestine - Eye on Palestine
A displaced child (smiling) after long hours of waiting to receive their share from the communal kitchen. If today's meal isn't lentil soup, then it's pasta with tomato sauce. The scene is no longer just tragic, absurd, or painful; it is beyond description, expression, or even endurance. Famine is ravaging the children of Gaza.
@AbujomaaGaza - Motasem A Dalloul
Nine-year-old Maryam abdul Aziz Dawas from Gaza lost the ability to walk due to lack of food! https://t.co/KRjmSaG1de
@QudsNen - Quds News Network
Gaza Hospitals have recorded 11 deaths in the past 24 hours due to famine and malnutrition, raising the total number of such deaths to 212, including 98 children, according to the Ministry of Health. https://t.co/38pWfbhpsg
@_ZachFoster - Zachary Foster
A brief history of Israel’s 33-year long policy of starving Gaza. A 🧵