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velcrohn | 5 months ago

Just to address one of your points: 2 in every 10,000 people are dying daily. With a population of 2.1 million, that fraction is 420 people a day. Can you provide a source for that claim? Your link to the Guardian has roughly 20% of that number, which was provided by Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health

There is certainly hunger. It is an active war zone. But your numbers are grossly exaggerated.

When you mention the relatively small amount food entering between March and June, you neglect to mention the 6 months supply of food that was provided in January. That seems to be an important factor.

Also of note - there have been warnings of imminent mass starvation in Gaza since October 2023, and none of those warnings came about until recently, at which point Israel increased the amount of food entering Gaza.

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piltdownman|5 months ago

You carefully avoided the actual BBC citation directly underneath, which links to the IPC report and a separate BBC article I link now.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05ed5rgld3o

The IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) report issued on August 22, 2025, confirmed Famine (IPC Phase 5) in Gaza Governorate, marking the first official famine declaration in the Middle East. The report, based on a special snapshot for the period of July-September 2025, projected famine to expand to other governorates and highlighted catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity, particularly among children

IPC Report Confirms Famine in Gaza: Joint Statement by UN Security Council 14 Members https://www.un.org/unispal/document/joint-press-statement-se...

As you're a green account, I won't be responding to any more of your ghoulish bad-faith engagements.

// The United Nations chief has described the famine confirmed in Gaza City and its surrounding areas as a "failure of humanity".

Antonio Gutteres said the situation was a "man-made disaster" after a UN-backed body, which identifies hunger levels around the world, raised its food insecurity status in parts of the territory to Phase 5 - the highest and most severe.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) says more than half a million people across Gaza are facing "catastrophic" conditions characterised by "starvation, destitution and death".

The report was labelled an "outright lie" by Israel, which has denied there is starvation in the territory.//