The people of Gaza are facing a humanitarian crisis with half the population starving and in a situation of extreme or severe hunger, according to the World Food Programme.

At least nine out of 10 people go without food for the whole day. There is an acute risk of famine if the situation remains unchanged.

    • queermunist she/her
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      11 months ago

      There’s a new acronym aid workers and doctors are using: WCNSF

      Wounded child, no surviving family. Tens of thousands of them, filling the hospitals to bursting. Hospitals that are so full there are no beds, patients lay in the blood and filth of the hallways.

      “I was unable to bid farewell to my mother, father and brother, and no funeral was conducted for them,” Kareem said. “My mother feared the prospect of us being left alone or feeling oppressed if any of us were lost. I wish I had departed with them."

      Scale. 36 children died on 10/7 (an unknown number from friendly fire) - 36 children die every couple days in Gaza. At times a child dies every ten minutes. This is a war on children.

      This is genocide.

    • تحريرها كلها ممكنOPM
      6·
      11 months ago

      Yoav Gallant is Hamas?

      Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says he has ordered a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip, as Israel fights the Hamas terror group.

      “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” Gallant says following an assessment at the IDF Southern Command in Beersheba.

      “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly,” he adds.

      https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/defense-minister-announces-complete-siege-of-gaza-no-power-food-or-fuel/