"In Somalia or Sudan, for example, when food becomes scarce, people fall back on age-old alternatives such as gathering wild grasses and berries, or modern strategies such as calling for family members abroad to transfer cash. #Palestinians in #Gaza can’t do any of this. #Israel controls every shekel, every sack of flour, every connection to the outside world." - #AlexDeWaal
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/may/starvation-in-gaza
#GazaFamine #Palestine #oPt #colonialViolence @palestine @israel
"During the past year, as starvation started to appear in #Gaza, #Israel has clashed with the United Nations and aid agencies over the very nature and significance of data on humanitarian catastrophe. [...] [W]ith painstaking caution a series of reports by international and US humanitarian analysts have explained that there is indeed #StarvationInGaza, despite Israel’s insistence to the contrary: the blindfolds are off." - #AlexDeWaal
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n02/alex-de-waal/how-to-measure-famine
#GazaStarvation @palestine @israel
"The balance of evidence is that people are perishing of starvation and related health crises and many more will do so without immediate and effective humanitarian action and restoration of essential services." - #AlexDeWaal
How Many People Have Died of #StarvationInGaza?
https://worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/how-many-people-have-died-of-starvation-in-gaza/
#Gaza #GazaFamine #GazaStarvation #WarOnGaza #oPt #Palestine #Palestinians @palestine @israel
"The al-Bashir case settled most legal questions about whether heads of state or government enjoy immunity for international crimes. They don't. [..] Khan’s case breaks new legal ground only insofar as it’s the first time that an international court is charging individuals with the war crime of starvation." - #AlexDeWaal
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/december/icc-most-wanted
#ICC #InternationalCriminalCourt #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #InternationalJustice #Gaza @palestine @israel
"We now have international standards for measuring and responding rapidly to #FoodEmergencies: mechanisms that are standardized, transparent, and based on complicated calculations. This means that those seeking to use #FamineAsAWeapon have to deny, subvert, or challenge these metrics and measurements." - #AlexDeWaal
Engineers of Calamity
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/engineers-of-calamity/
#famine #FamineDenial #FamineDenialism #GenocideDenial #Gaza #Sudan #Tigray #Palestine
“This is fundamentally a political crisis,” says #AlexDeWaal, the author of Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine, who explains that even with a #ceasefire and #HumanitarianAid, “a crisis like this cannot be stopped overnight,” and that “This will be a calamity that will be felt for generations.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/25/gaza
#Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaStarvation #GazaFamine #Palestinians #Palestine #oPt
"Epidemiologists in London and Baltimore have generated projections for the likely death toll in #Gaza from all causes over the months to August. If epidemics are included, their 'status quo' scenario projects a range of 48,210 to 193,180 deaths, while under the 'with escalation' scenario those figures range even higher."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/21/we-are-about-to-witness-the-most-intense-famine-since-world-war-ii-in-gaza
#GazaGenocide #GazaStarvation #GazaFamine #Palestinians #Palestine #oPt
#AlexDeWaal uses the term #FamineCrime - "A famine crime is an act of commission or omission, or policy, that contributes to creating conditions of mass starvation. I used the term in my 1997 book of that name." [1]
Wikipedia uses #StarvationCrime with Crime in parentheses [2].
Funny that Western mainstream media haven't picked up the term #FamineCrime in 26 years. "Oh, what a tragedy! A famine happened!"
[1] https://sites.tufts.edu/reinventingpeace/2024/02/14/a-humanitarian-lexicon-for-darker-times
"On 9 October, the minister of defence, Yoav Gallant, said: ‘I have ordered a complete siege on the #Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed.’ [..]
"In terms of the framework elaborated by David Marcus, a law professor at UCLA, this is a prima facie indication of a first-degree ‘#famine crime’."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/january/starvation-as-a-method-of-warfare
#Israel #Palestine #Palestinians #GazaStarvation #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #GenocideConvention #ICJ
