Earlier this week, the U.N. World Food Programme warned that continued closures of border crossings have kept the flow of food into Gaza well below the population’s daily nutritional requirements. At the same time, the director-general of the World Health Organization predicted that the effects of rampant famine and disease in the territory will endure for “generations to come.” The Palestinian journalist
confronted Israel’s mass starvation tactics firsthand before he left Gaza for Ireland earlier this year. In his contribution to our Issue Sixteen Dispatches section on the politics of food, he recounts his experience and explains why the latest “ceasefire” hasn’t ended Gaza’s hunger crisis. Read his piece online today.
Bleak and Desolate Shelves | What Starvation Looks Like in Gaza
ABUBAKER ABED
To be starved in Gaza is to gradually lose both weight and dignity. Imposed hunger not only results in skeletal babies, fatigued bodies, and death, but humiliation and a pervasive sense of helplessness as well.
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