Volker Turk, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights, said in a statement last week that evidence suggests that Israel could be using starvation as a weapon as it carries out it's genocide in Gaza.
Tag: humanitarian aid
AIPAC’S MARCHING ORDERS: DENY ISRAELI GENOCIDE CAMPAIGN OF SLAUGHTER AND STARVATION OF PALESTINIANS
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, has all but laid out its blueprint on how the messaging should be in Washington about the ongoing genocide campaign in Gaza—as politicians that the group has in its pocket—face more criticism at home about the support.
BIDEN TO PALESTINIANS: TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT PIER
U.S. President Joe Biden announced last week that he plans on building a temporary pier off of Gaza's coast on the Mediterranean to help speed up the transfer of humanitarian aid to the starving people in the enclave.
ISRAELI FOOD CONVOY MASSACRE
Nearly 120 Palestinians were killed and almost 800 seriously wounded last Thursday when Israeli troops opened fire as Palestinians, on the verge of starvation, were gathering around food trucks that had just been brought in to help feed them.
FOOD CONVOY MASSACRE IN GAZA PROMPTS MAJOR PROTESTS
Last week’s food convoy massacre in Gaza City sparked protests worldwide demanding an end to Israel’s genocide in the coastal enclave that has been bombed and starved for months.
BULLSHIT BIDEN CAUGHT BULLSHITING ABOUT CEASEFIRE PROSPECTS
U.S. President Joe Biden made a pained appearance on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers last week and said he was hopeful that a ceasefire deal could be achieved last weekend—before the White House clarified that parties were still far apart.
TOP ISRAELI MINISTER HEAPS PRAISE ON U.S.-BACKED IDF MILITANTS WHO KILLED STARVING GAZANS RACING TO FOOD CONVOY
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, praised the U.S.-backed IDF no who opened fire on hundreds of starving Palestinians at a food convoy last week because they felt threatened.
TRUCKS UNABLE TO DELIVER AID TO STARVING GAZANS
The UN said last week that just a small percent of humanitarian aid trucks that are intended for starving Gazans are reaching their destination as workers in the enclave report a societal breakdown because of the dire conditions.
BULLSHIT BLINKEN: KEEP THE GENOCIDE GOING, A LOT OF WORK REMAINS
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken continued to offer his full support of Israel’s ongoing genocide last week and said there remained a lot of work to be done before there can be a peace agreement and hostage exchange.
U.S. CUTTING OFF UNRWA AID MAKES TERRIBLE SITUATION IN GAZA MUCH WORSE
The collective punishment of Gazans by Israel and its backers only worsened after the U.S. and other countries suspended their funding for UNRWA, the UN aid agency in the coastal enclave that provides residents with food and shelter.