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Denying famine, Israel threatens more curbs on Gaza aid
AMMAN, Jordan — As the Israeli military moves to displace the entire population of Gaza City, aid organizations are warning that the military offensive and new Israeli restrictions on aid groups due to be implemented next week will create an even bigger catastrophe in a territory already wracked with famine.
As part of its planned takeover of Gaza City, Israel has told residents to move south or risk being killed. But the International Committee of the Red Cross and others are warning that there is no safety, food, water or shelter in places where Israel is warning them to go.
It calls the evacuation warnings for Gaza's hundreds of thousands of civilians "incomprehensible."
After almost two years of war, aid providers say the health care system has collapsed, even as the number of injured, ill and starving Palestinians continues to rise sharply. The most prominent U.N.-backed global panel on hunger last month declared that conditions in Gaza City and the north had reached the level of famine and that it would spread to central and south Gaza by the end of this month if nothing is done.
As part of its planned takeover of Gaza City, Israel has told residents to move south or risk being killed. But the International Committee of the Red Cross and others are warning that there is no safety, food, water or shelter in places where Israel is warning them to go.
It calls the evacuation warnings for Gaza's hundreds of thousands of civilians "incomprehensible."
After almost two years of war, aid providers say the health care system has collapsed, even as the number of injured, ill and starving Palestinians continues to rise sharply. The most prominent U.N.-backed global panel on hunger last month declared that conditions in Gaza City and the north had reached the level of famine and that it would spread to central and south Gaza by the end of this month if nothing is done.
Much more at the link:
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/04/g-s1-86841/gaza-aid-famine-hunger-israel
So Israel has stopped all food and other aid going into Gaza City where about a million people, half of them facing famine, are sheltering amid the 24-hour aerial bombardments (I mean Palestinians don't need to eat, right?) It plans to "evacuate them - at least those still alive - to the Rafah area, where there are NO hospitals in operation or basic services necessary for human life. Remember, Israel has turned Rafah into rubble - Rafah of the famous "red line" - and replaced the infrastructure with absolutely nothing, all while enticing the starving with promises of "enhanced services". We saw an example of the "enhanced services" the other day, when 9 people including 5 children were massacred while fetching water - in a supposed safe humanitarian zone.
After having bombed the WHO's Gaza warehouse in July and destroying surgical and trauma supplies, medication, and treatment for malnourished children; after imposing custom fees and military escort requirements on aid agencies attempting to get supplies in through Jordan; after cancelling all air drops about a week ago; after denying 29 NGOs entry with lifesaving aid; after shutting down over 400 aid distribution sites and replacing it with 3 Death Traps known as the GHF, located a 6-hour walk from major population centres in the middle of war zones (where else, right?) where paltry aid is distributed within 23 agonizing MINUTES...
Israel has now devised yet another strategy to keep the hungry starving and deny medical help for the ill, wounded and dying. It is now demanding that aid group NGOs operating in Gaza re-register under new rules asking for personal data on all local and international staff and their FAMILIES. I can't think why most of the groups have rejected such a request, it's not like Israel goes around killing aid workers, and health workers etc and their families or something. /s
This is serious and very alarming. NGOs that do not comply with the new rule risk being shut down by Sept 9th. These NGOs - like Doctors without Borders - are the backbone of Gaza's diminishing medical system. Other aid groups provide much needed food aid - at least on the rare occasions that they have recently been allowed to enter.
This is absolute madness. I'm not talking now about Israel - a state that has been "mad" for awhile now - but the really disturbing reality that no one with any power, in the entire fricking Western world, seems to want to lift a finger to stop an actual genocide from happening and to help the unfortunate, tormented and endangered Palestinians.