Tag: Starvation

  • Celebrating Nicaragua’s Gains and Feeling Anguish for Gaza

    Celebrating Nicaragua’s Gains and Feeling Anguish for Gaza

    1999: Hurricane Mitch Aftermath The image is forever seared in my mind: Francisco was two years old, his thin legs and swollen feet were covered in sores. Straw blond hair stuck to his head as he listlessly nursed from his teenage mother’s breast. He weighed 13 ½ pounds. It was the summer of 1999, and […]

  • What It Feels Like When You Die from Hunger: Gaza’s Starvation Crisis in Slow Motion

    What It Feels Like When You Die from Hunger: Gaza’s Starvation Crisis in Slow Motion

    Quds News Network In Gaza’s emergency rooms, doctors now face a wave of patients suffering not from injury, but from hunger. The Ministry of Health confirmed that unprecedented numbers of people, from infants to the elderly, are arriving at hospitals in extreme exhaustion due to starvation. The cause is not a drought or a natural disaster. […]

  • The official death toll in Gaza is a lie: The casualty numbers are far, far higher

    The official death toll in Gaza is a lie: The casualty numbers are far, far higher

    The death toll in Gaza is way too low by every imaginable metric. We need to be stressing this – all the more so when Israel’s apologists are vigorously engaged in a disinformation campaign to suggest that the figures are inflated. On 6 May, 7 months into Israel’s slaughter, there were reported to be 34,735 […]

  • Math proves that Israel’s stated goals are an epic lie

    Math proves that Israel’s stated goals are an epic lie

    Twelve buildings are destroyed every hour in Gaza. (Hadi Daoud APA images) When you’re in Gaza and see the destruction firsthand, the clearest conclusion is that Israel’s stated goals are an epic lie, on a par with “a people without a land for a land without a people,” packaged and sold to the world. The […]

  • Starvation in Gaza: The World Court’s Latest Intervention

    Rarely has the International Court of Justice been so constantly exercised by one topic during a short span of time.  On January 26, the World Court, considering a filing made the previous December by South Africa, accepted Pretoria’s argument that the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was applicable to […]

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