Back at Nasser, we see Asil Hamad who, when born three months ago, weighed 3.5 kilos (7.7 pounds). Since then she has only gained 400 grams (14 ounces). Hamad wasn’t diagnosed with an illness. From her mother’s account, the reason for her low weight is clear: “I had tried to breastfeed, but I was also starving.”
Dr. al-Farra explains that the mother had wanted to buy formula, but the prices were sky high. One salesman demanded no less than $100 for a tin.

« Children who undergo a thing like that – their brain is finished. Even those who survive will suffer from severe ret*rdation. »

“In Israel, too, there are various illnesses, but we never ever see children in this condition. There is nothing even resembling it.”

We also see Ayad, who’s 16. During one of his attempts to get his hands on food at a distribution center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, he was shot – a routine occurrence around GHF sites. Formerly considered healthy, he’s suffering from malnutrition and his bones are protruding.
Later during our virtual tour we are introduced to Othman, who was also shot at an aid-distribution center and is paralyzed on his right side, as well as suffering from a serious head wound. His body, too, has been wracked by severe acute malnutrition.

Almost all the hospitals have been damaged in attacks during the war, and some have ceased to function. They face a chronic shortage of medication and equipment, they don’t have enough fuel to operate their electric power system and their personnel are buckling under the tremendous load, which is further compounded by mass-casualty events – frequent occurrences in the Strip.

Deaths from hunger began to be documented on a daily basis in late July, but tell-tale signs of the looming crisis were there beforehand. In early March, the Israel government announced that it would no longer allow food to enter the Gaza Strip. For more than two and a half months “not a single grain” entered, in the words of Finance Minister and security cabinet member Bezalel Smotrich.

[In February 2024,] UNICEF, the UN’s emergency fund for children, declared that 90 percent of the children in Gaza below the age of 5 were suffering from food insecurity. Another month passed and the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to allow food to flow into the Strip. The court explained that under Israel’s commitments as a signatory to the international convention to prevent genocide, and against the backdrop of the spread of famine and starvation, it must allow food distribution amid full cooperation with the UN.
Two months later, a request was filed for the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the defense minister at the time, Yoav Gallant. The first charge cited was using starvation as a method of warfare.

From Caitlin Johnstone : https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/only-liars-and-manipulators-say-gaza

This comes as the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) formally declares that the people of Gaza are suffering from a famine that “is entirely man-made”, which must be halted and reversed with extreme urgency.

Israel has of course denounced the IPC’s findings as antisemitic Hamas propaganda, with the Israeli Foreign Ministry saying that “The entire IPC document is based on Hamas lies laundered through organizations with vested interests,” and Benjamin Netanyahu branding the report “a modern blood libel, spreading like wildfire through prejudice.”

They’re attempting to force gazans to flee through the south. Does it change something to know the plan in advance ?