Let's be clear on what it means that a famine in the technical sense is imminent for 1.1 million people in Gaza according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
One of the criteria is 2 deaths per 10,000 people from outright starvation or the interaction of malnutrition and disease... PER DAY.
The people who understand this stuff are saying that a situation is imminent where there are AT LEAST 200 starvation deaths every day.
Local officials and researchers say hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and United Nations suspended food aid.
A United Nations official in Gaza said the Monday report of famine-imminent conditions in the strip are "unprecedented" amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war....
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) director said the comprehensive famine in northern Gaza might spread south. Northern Gaza is experiencing "full-blown" famine, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Director Cindy McCain. ...
Reuters saw 10 badly malnourished children during a visit last week to the al-Awda health centre in Rafah, arranged with nursing staff who gave the news agency unimpeded access to the ward.
But what will it take for Germany, the U.K. and the US to acknowledge the atrocities being perpetrated by Israel.
From well needed sympathy after the Hamas attricities, the country has really screwed the pooch with their actions. Meanwhile journalists are being shot or barred from entry to Gaza in an attempt to hide the reality.
Liberal newspaper Liberation published a cartoon by a former Charlie Hebdo artist showing a mother scolding her child for chasing a rat to eat because it wasn’t respecting #Ramadan fasting.
Fears Israel is influencing location of dock away from the north, where famine threat is most severe. A giant floating dock is nearing completion in the eastern Mediterranean from where it will be pushed towards the Gaza shore, but there is growing uncertainty over how useful the US project will be in containing a famine....
Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza, some at the European Hospital, due to Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing.Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of...
With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth
Climate breakdown and crop losses threaten our survival, but the ultra-rich find ever more creative ways to maintain the status quo
The new paper explores the impacts on crop production when meanders in the jet stream (Rossby waves) become stuck. Stuck patterns cause extreme weather.
I wrote this a while ago, but it's getting increasingly relevant.
The thin connections that underpin the #semiconductor industry are too fragile to withstand an era of #ClimateDisaster and #war, of rationing of energy and resources, of widespread #famine, of international suspicion, and of unprecedented #migration away from coastal areas and newly forming deserts.
Today in Labor History August 22, 1917: Italian police opened fire on protesters against the hunger caused by World War I. Most of the protesters were women. The next day, workers declared a General Strike. On the 24th, a state of siege was declared, but the strike continued until the 26th. Police violence during the strike resulted in the deaths of 60 people.
Millions are facing hunger and children's lives are on the line in northeastern Nigeria amid a protracted conflict and intensifying climate change, the United Nations (UN) reports.
For months, aid groups have struggled to get food to an estimated 300,000 people in northern Gaza, where the world’s global authority on food security recently predicted a famine was either already happening or would begin before July....
Today in Labor History December 18, 1878: Joseph Stalin was born. He ruled the USSR from 1922-1952. There were up to 1.2 million executions during the Great Purge (1936-1938). Another 1.7 million died in his gulags. While up to 9 million more starved during the famines that occurred during his reign. The Ukrainian famine (1932-1933), during which 3.5 million died, is considered by many to be a genocide. Various historians estimate that anywhere from 10-60 million people total were killed under Stalin’s policies, placing him up there with Hitler and Mao as one of the top three most murderous rulers of all time.
Over 1 million people are starving in Gaza because Israel has made it impossible to get aid to the people. Israeli forces have even fired on starving people as they approached aid trucks. These attacks on unarmed civilians are being called the flour massacres. Men who left their families to get food will not return. Nobody is stopping Netanyahu. Biden has done nothing. #gaza#famine#warcrimes#FlourMassacare
Palestinian mother's can't feed their children because they are starving and without access to medicine and baby formula, these poor children have no chance whatsoever.
These poor innocent children had the bad luck of being born in the worst place on earth for children today, and the disgusting hypocrites of world don't seem to care
They are dying, one by one, while the disgusting leaders of the west cowardly looking the other way and pretend that everything is fine.
We really should be ashamed of ourselves.All of us.
"The war was both sudden and a long time coming. The short history is that of a country where, following a promising 2019 revolution that overthrew the dictator Omar al-Bashir, the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a powerful militia, ejected civilians from a power-sharing agreement between the three parties and then could not come to an agreement themselves"
Nesrine Malik on the internal conflict in Sudan
In other news from Gaza, the U.N. food agency has issued a dire warning, stating, “Over one million people — half the population of Gaza — are expected to face death and starvation by mid-July” if Israel’s war on Gaza does not end. The warning comes in a new report on global hunger that also says the risk of starvation...
"A super strong El Niño and record high global sea surface temperatures are set to deliver devastating extreme weather events all over the planet in 2024. They will be extremely costly and traumatic for many millions of people around the world. But the real concern is what the consequences of those events will show us about the fragility and vulnerability [of] our global food supply network."
Hunger kills hundreds after US and UN pause food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray region, officials say (apnews.com)
Local officials and researchers say hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and United Nations suspended food aid.
Famine-imminent conditions in Gaza 'unprecedented': UN official (abcnews.go.com)
A United Nations official in Gaza said the Monday report of famine-imminent conditions in the strip are "unprecedented" amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war....
Northern Gaza in 'full-blown' famine: Senior UN official (www.euronews.com)
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) director said the comprehensive famine in northern Gaza might spread south. Northern Gaza is experiencing "full-blown" famine, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Director Cindy McCain. ...
In Gaza, starving children fill hospital wards as famine looms (www.reuters.com)
Reuters saw 10 badly malnourished children during a visit last week to the al-Awda health centre in Rafah, arranged with nursing staff who gave the news agency unimpeded access to the ward.
‘Smokescreen’: officials voice concern over US plans for Gaza aid pier (www.theguardian.com)
Fears Israel is influencing location of dock away from the north, where famine threat is most severe. A giant floating dock is nearing completion in the eastern Mediterranean from where it will be pushed towards the Gaza shore, but there is growing uncertainty over how useful the US project will be in containing a famine....
American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life (theintercept.com)
Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza, some at the European Hospital, due to Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing.Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of...
Millions in Nigeria's North-East on the Verge of Famine, UN Warns (allafrica.com)
Millions are facing hunger and children's lives are on the line in northeastern Nigeria amid a protracted conflict and intensifying climate change, the United Nations (UN) reports.
‘Hell on Earth’: famine nears in northern Gaza despite Israeli aid pledges (www.theguardian.com)
For months, aid groups have struggled to get food to an estimated 300,000 people in northern Gaza, where the world’s global authority on food security recently predicted a famine was either already happening or would begin before July....
U.N. Warns 1 Million Gazans Could Face Deadly Starvation by Mid-July (www.democracynow.org)
In other news from Gaza, the U.N. food agency has issued a dire warning, stating, “Over one million people — half the population of Gaza — are expected to face death and starvation by mid-July” if Israel’s war on Gaza does not end. The warning comes in a new report on global hunger that also says the risk of starvation...