Palestine

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza (Guardian, 2025-07-31)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/31/the-mathematics-of-starvation-how-israel-caused-a-famine-in-gaza
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>> The #mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza. Palestinians cannot leave, war has ended farming and Israel has banned fishing, so practically every calorie its population eats must be brought in from outside.

>> Israel knows how much food is needed. It has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades …

>> “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006…

>> … Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, Cogat records show, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period.

>> Even if every bag of #UN flour had been collected and handed out, and the #GHF had developed safe systems for equitable distribution, starvation was inevitable…

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5718494

In the meeting held at United Nations headquarters on July 28-30, Cuba reiterated its firm commitment to the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. It denounced the systematic violations and atrocities committed by Israel as the occupying power.

Ambassador Yuri Gala, Charge d’Affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, affirmed in his speech at the forum that his country “has joined the call of the most international community for decisive action to end one of the longest-standing injustices of our time.”

He said injustice has worsened in these last two years, during which “Israel has perpetrated crimes against humanity, collective punishment, Apartheid, and genocide against the Palestinian people with impunity.”

Ambassador Gala recalled on Wednesday the high number of dead, injured, and displaced persons, as well as the destruction of hospitals, schools, mosques, and other civilian infrastructure, in clear violation of International Humanitarian Law, which “places us before a painful reality that lacerates the conscience of humanity.”

Gala emphasized that concrete actions are urgently needed in the UN Security Council to stop the ongoing genocide, allow for the delivery of sufficient and unrestricted humanitarian aid, and guarantee the vital work of UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East).

The Cuban representative also recalled that more than 145 countries already recognize the State of Palestine and emphasized that its admission as a full member of the UN cannot be delayed further.

Justice for Palestine cannot wait any longer. “Let us act with the urgency that humanity demands, that the Palestinian people need, as an unavoidable condition for achieving a just, lasting, and permanent peace in the Middle East,” he concluded.

Over the past week, Tel Aviv-Jaffa saw a myriad of protests, each with its own message. But the movements must now truly join forces – Gaza's children and Israel's hostages can't wait for us to build the perfect coalition

from Haaretz Today via email Israel News, Thursday, 31.07.2025 Linda Dayan

[an Israeli liberal perspective on various protests going on in Israel right now]

Each of these demonstrations carries its own message. At one, saying "starvation isn't a Jewish value" would be considered provocative; at another, signs declare "end the genocide." Some rail against the government for allowing Haredi youth to dodge the military draft, while others call for wholesale refusal to serve in the military at all.

Apartheid in the West Bank

https://farid.ps/articles/apartheid/_in/_the/_west/_bank

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Trump’s ‘Pastor’ Paula White:

I am truly honored to be seated here with those whom I believe are God’s chosen for everyone.

She also called Israel her “home.”

This is the theology behind U.S. policy: divine right, messianic destiny, and total erasure of Palestinians.

Video available on #BlueSky
https://bsky.app/profile/faab64.bsky.social/post/3lvbhbi5zus2k

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Here is a leaflet graphic for an upcoming action in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

This action has the broadest sponsorship of any pro-Palestine action since early 2024. 😀

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Matt Sledge
July 31 2025, 6:00am

They also emphasize that at this point, women and children in Gaza are in need of not just food but also specialized medical care to reverse severe malnutrition.

“The proposal is ludicrous,” said Dr. John Kahler, a pediatrician who co-founded a nonprofit group MedGlobal that supports re-feeding centers for children in Gaza. “Nothing new needs to get done. It’s a simple but not easy solution: Stop the bombing, open up the gates, and let the people who know how to do it, do it.”

Minnah Arshad
July 30 2025 2:40pm

The U.N. agency tasked with distributing aid in Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, has maintained for months that it has received no specific evidence that Hamas or other armed groups were diverting its humanitarian aid in Gaza.

“These claims are used as a pretext to justify the aid distribution system supported by the Israeli authorities and the United States of America (so called GHF), which falls far from abiding to the humanitarian principles and international humanitarian law,” an UNRWA spokesperson told The Intercept in a statement.

Humanitäre Organisationen fordern Krisengipfel im Kanzleramt zur Lage in Gaza - medico international (2025-07-30)

https://www.medico.de/presse/2025/humanitaere-organisationen-fordern-krisengipfel-im-kanzleramt-zur-lage-in-gaza
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>> In einem heute übermittelten Brief betonen die Organisationen die Wichtigkeit, mit dem Bundeskanzler über tatsächlich wirksame humanitäre Maßnahmen zu sprechen, um das Leid der Zivilbevölkerung und die sich ausbreitenden Hungersnot zu beenden…

Unterzeichnende Organisationen:
• Aktion gegen den Hunger
• Ärzte ohne Grenzen e.V./Médecins Sans Frontières
• Ärzte der Welt
• CARE Deutschland e.V.
• Caritas international
• Oxfam Deutschland e.V.
• Handicap International e.V.
• International Rescue Committee (IRC) Deutschland
• medico international e.V.
• NRC Deutschland
• Plan International Deutschland e.V.
• Save the Children Deutschland
• Welthungerhilfe e.V.

#StopGenocide #GermanComplicity
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Lina Qasem-Hassan
Wed 30 Jul 2025 08.00 EDT

As a #Palestinian doctor living and working in #Israel, in the midst of a longstanding conflict, I learned during my studies and work that injustice has been done to many populations living here. The occupation and coercion that Israel exercises over the Palestinian population in the occupied territories and the policy of discrimination against the Palestinian minority living within Israel cause serious harm to the right to health of these populations. Control over territories, expulsion, dispossession, violence, restriction of movement, establishment of settlements and apartheid cause great suffering to the population, prevent access to medical care and directly affect their health.

Huda Skaik
July 30 2025, 7:00 a.m.

No ceasefire will erase the smell of blood that clings to our memories. No ceasefire can bring back those we have lost. No one can compensate the orphans or widows. No one can delete the massacres, the death traps disguised as aid centers. No one can erase the images of bodies in pieces, of blood soaked into the floor, of children crushed beneath rubble, of injured and amputated people, of infants and fetuses killed in their mothers’ wombs, of starved people suffering from malnutrition. No one can make us forget the taste of nothing during starvation and the feeling of helplessness in front of seeing our futures destroyed.

Jul 30, 2025
Story by Heba Almaqadma

The deprivation from starvation and siege is visible upon people’s faces. People are looking hollow-eyed and tired. We are suffering not just from hunger, but from abandonment. Palestinians have been turned into symbols of suffering and defiance, whereas what we want is not only to survive, but also to truly live and feel alive once more. Instead, as the whole world watches, for nearly two years we have been brutally murdered and tormented in the most horrific and innovative ways that a human mind can devise.

A new report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem admitting that #Israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza

The report details Israel’s policies, systematic violence & dehumanization of Palestinians, concluding that senior officials’ statements & the outcomes of Israeli actions show a deliberate, coordinated effort to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip

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I would really like it if Chris Smalls ran for political office.

DRAFT CHRIS SMALLS 2026/2028

Trump's MAGA base defies conservative pro-Israel doctrine - US AFP News (2025-07-30)

https://us.afpnews.com/article/?trumps-maga-base-defies-conservative-proisrael-doctrine,688Q364
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>> Political scientist and former US diplomat Michael Montgomery thinks the tonal shift might in part be emotional -- with TV images of starving children resonating more profoundly than the aftermath of air strikes.

>> "Perhaps it is because no civilized people see starvation as a legitimate weapon of war," the University of Michigan-Dearborn professor told AFP.

>> Israel has always enjoyed broad bipartisan support in Congress but the rise of the isolationist MAGA movement under Trump has challenged the ideological foundations ...

>> Pro-Trump think tank The Heritage Foundation in March called on Washington to "re-orient its relationship with Israel" from a special relationship "to an equal strategic partnership."

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