Remember that famine that engulfed virtually all of Gaza? The one perpetrated by those nasty Israelis who, for no reason at all, decided to starve a civilian population?
If so, you have one helluva memory. Because it didn’t happen.
From Jeremy Sharon’s article for the Times of Israel, via msn.com:
A report released last week by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) organization, which found that there is not currently a famine in Gaza, has confirmed doubts that were raised earlier this year about claims of mass starvation, due to the absence of evidence.
A close examination of the report reveals discrepancies not only between what has been claimed by UN agencies and humanitarian officials about the situation in Gaza, but between the rhetorical assertions of the IPC itself and the data in its own report.
The data also demonstrates that the IPC’s projection in March that some 1.1 million Gazans would be suffering from the highest level of food insecurity possible by some time in July was wildly wrong according to its new study: It was more than three times higher than the actual number of people in that category as of June 15.
These deficiencies have led some experts to question the basis of the IPC’s new projections, which again predict an increase in famine in the Gaza Strip.
The allegations of approaching famine have also formed a central part of the legal processes against Israel’s conduct of the war against Hamas in both the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the latter of which has accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of war crimes and crimes against humanity for allegedly using starvation as a method war against the Palestinians.
Israel has persistently claimed, however, that it has facilitated the transfer of tens of thousands of aid trucks with enough food to provide for Gaza’s nutritional needs, and has blamed the UN for not scaling up its logistics and distribution operations.
Hmmmmmm. Disinformation that makes Israel look bad and is then used against the one Jewish state on planet earth…which turns out to be BS. What a shock. Who ever heard of such a thing?
Well, maybe you have heard of such a thing. Like, for instance, Israel’s bombing and destruction of that hospital with 500 dead in which there was no Israeli bomb and the hospital is intact. Or the 37,000 dead Gazan civilians, mostly women and children,which turned out to be a wildly overstated myth. Or the fact that these reports indicate all casualties are civilian/there has yet to be a report that Israel took out any Hamas “fighters”. Or………
…..I think – or at least hope – you get the idea.
With 22 Arab states and 49 Muslim-majority states in the world compared to one mostly Jewish state (with 20% of its population Arab/mostly Muslim,let’s not forget) and a United Nations that hasn’t given Israel a fair shake in decades, don’t expect any apologies for the ongoing torrent of BS Israel endures.
And don’t expect that it is going to change any time soon either.
