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Instead, what exists now is a total #siege. For 60 days, #Israel’s authorities have blocked the entry of #humanitarian #aid & commercial goods in….That has left the already beleaguered residents of #Gaza in an even more miserable predicament. The #WorldFoodProgram said this week that its warehouses are empty & that bakeries & soup kitchens are rationing their last stocks. #UN experts say that #malnutrition rates are rising & that the prospect of a full-blown #famine is now all-too real.

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After seven weeks of bombing and a genocidal blockade of all humanitarian and food aid going into Gaza, the UN's World Food Program is now announcing that it has run out of food inside the strip; which will further exacerbate a humanitarian crisis engineered by the government off Israel as part of the genocide it's conducting against Palestinians in the enclave.

commondreams.org/news/gaza-foo

UN Program Out of Food in Gaza as Israel Maintains Blockade

"No humanitarian or commercial supplies have entered Gaza for more than seven weeks as all main border crossing points remain closed," WFP said Friday. "This is the longest closure the Gaza Strip has ever faced, exacerbating already fragile markets and food systems. Food prices have skyrocketed up to 1,400% compared to during the cease-fire, and essential food commodities are in short supply, raising serious nutrition concerns for vulnerable populations, including children under 5, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and the elderly."

Over 18 months into a U.S.-backed military assault for which Israel faces a genocide case at the Interenational Court of Justice, WFP said that "the situation inside the Gaza Strip has once again reached a breaking point: People are running out of ways to cope, and the fragile gains made during the short ceasefire have unravelled. Without urgent action to open borders for aid and trade to enter, WFP's critical assistance may be forced to end."

While conditions are dire, WFP is prepared to keep feeding people, if Israel will allow aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave. The program highlighted that "more than 116,000 metric tons of food assistance—enough to feed 1 million people for up to four months—is positioned at aid corridors and is ready to be brought into Gaza by WFP and food security partners as soon as borders reopen."

The program called on "all parties to prioritize the needs of civilians and allow aid to enter Gaza immediately and uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law."

I need to stress here that this isn't an activist organization, or political representatives from Gaza talking here; this is a UN program that feeds refugees, the exploited, and folks in crisis situations. There is absolutely no reason to believe they're exaggerating the situation, which in turn means we're watching Israel commit a crime against humanity in real time. If this were anyone other than a US client state in the MENA, the entire American establishment would be able to see that there is no reason to continuously bomb Gaza while enforcing a nearly two month long blockade on food, supplies, and humanitarian aid, unless you're actively trying to kill innocent people. Which of course Israel is; they're committing a genocide, the Trump administration is happily paying for it, and a bipartisan US establishment awash in PAC and donor money, is quietly ignoring that genocide for political, financial, and ideological reasons.

Common Dreams · UN Program Out of Food in Gaza as Israel Maintains Blockade | Common DreamsThe World Food Program says it is out of food as Israel's relentless bombing and blockade have left Gaza on the brink of starvation.
#Israel#Genocide#Gaza
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⬆️ #US is removing #AidPier from #Gaza coast again due to weather. The pier should be back in place and operating again by next week.

“Although aid has been unloaded in a secure area onshore… humanitarian agencies have stopped… distributing it throughout Gaza. #UN is weighing whether it can safely and ETHICALLY keep delivering supplies from the pier”

What could be more ethical than #WorldFoodProgram #WFP distributing aid to starving #Palestinians from a secure area? 🤔

apnews.com/article/israel-hama

AP News · The Latest | US is removing aid pier from Gaza coast again due to weather, officials sayBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

"[F]or me this is unprecedented because of, one, the magnitude, the scale, the entire population of a particular place; second, the severity; and, third, the speed at which this is happening, at which this has unfolded, is unprecedented. In my life, I’ve never seen anything like this in terms of severity, in terms of scale, and then in terms of speed."

Arif Husain, chief economist, #UN #WorldFoodProgram

#Gaza is Starving

newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/gaz

The New Yorker · Gaza Is StarvingBy Isaac Chotiner
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...for the international food system. In fact, the #WorldFoodProgram, which is the #UnitedNations' #humanitarian food-assistance organization, gets 👉40% of its #wheat from #Ukraine.👈...

#China was deemed a "top market" for the export of #SunflowerOil, #IndianCorn (#Mais,) #Barley. (1)

#FarmPolicyNews puts this more succinctly with numbers:

"With respect to corn exports to #China, #ERS explained that, “In 2012/13 #Ukraine exported...