Pax Christi USA is one of 21 faith-based organizations to endorse this new statement, organized by Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), calling for Israel to halt its planned military … Continue reading CMEP statement: Latest planned Israeli military offensive in Gaza City must be halted| Pax Christi USA
Midwives in Gaza are on the front lines fighting against extermination, trying to save this generation and the next, as the Israeli-imposed famine causes a birthing crisis in the Strip.| Mondoweiss
Israel is “managing” the famine in Gaza by targeting aid shipments while allowing some goods to reach local markets only if merchants pay the military an exorbitant fee. The system accomplishes two goals: engineering starvation and creating chaos.| Mondoweiss
By Eman, MECA staff in Gaza There are 5 phases of declaring a situation of catastrophe/famine according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) and the Famine Review Committee (FRC), these phases are: minimal (phase 1), stressed (phase 2), crisis (phase 3), emergency (phase 4), catastrophe/famine (phase 5). Right now, in the occupied| Middle East Children's Alliance
Práta means potato, child. Prátaí póir are seed-potatoes best planted on Good Friday. Iomaire is a potato bed and taobhfhód its own particular sod. Bachlóga are potato sprouts; millíní are the buds. Báinseog phrátaí is a patch of potatoes in bloom, lovelier than you might think. Caldar is a big potato. Práta préacháin is a potato pecked by a crow. Paidríní are tiny as rosary beads. Sliomach is soggy, prátai breaca have gone off, prátai dubha are nothing but rot. Smoladh i...| Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organisations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes. Exactly two months since the Israeli government-controlled scheme, [...]| Middle East Children's Alliance
Our colleague Ghada has been stuck abroad during the genocide, like many other Palestinians from Gaza. It’s been 582days. Ghada’s family remains in Gaza and below are Ghada’s reflections following her conversations with her family and friends. Her loved ones are trying to survive a genocide, while she witnesses from a distance and shares [...]| Middle East Children's Alliance
Forty-one percent of Americans, including 67% of Democrats and 14% of Republicans, believe that Israeli military actions in Gaza constitute either “genocide” (22%) or are "akin to genocide" (19%), according to a new poll released Monday by the University of Maryland Critical Issues series. Confirming a growing trend, younger respondents of both parties were more likely to say that Israel’s actions constitute genocide or the like. The poll, which surveyed more than 1,500 adults 18 and ol...| Responsible Statecraft
Though the new antibiotic “ice cream” is dangerous, few adults can deny children this small indulgence that makes life during a genocide feel worth living In Gaza, children eat frozen antibiotic syrups for the lie of something sweet is a story from Prism, a BIPOC-led nonprofit news outlet that centers the people, places, and issues currently underreported by national media. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work today.| Prism
More than 260 people—nearly half of them children—have recently died of severe hunger in Gaza as more die each day amid famine| Prism
He ate what would kill a man in the normal course of his life: leather buttons, cloth caps, anything small enough to get into his mouth. He ate roots. He ate newspaper.| Vox Populi
Israel has rejected a global classification of famine […]| The Media Line
A country that has both characteristics can do all of the typical rationing and enticing of domestic supplies. But it can also access foreign supplies in a very low-cost manner. Specifically, highe…| Economist Writing Every Day
The UN-affiliated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification is […]| The Media Line
Another Gazan child famine photo goes viral - and the media are caught again hiding the truth of underlying illness. Exclusive proof inside.| David Collier - independent investigative journalist
A new poll by the Israel Democracy Institute shows that 4 out of 5 Jewish Israelis – 79% - are not troubled by reports of Palestinian famine and suffering in Gaza.| Mondoweiss
We drink salt and water to stay standing, to keep ourselves from going dizzy and collapsing. This is what we’ve come to in Gaza, where most people will go without food for three days at a time.| Mondoweiss
The senator applauded aid entering the Strip, said Arabs should take over West Bank and Gaza| Responsible Statecraft
Hamas says Israel’s airdrops and corridors are aimed at whitewashing war crimes, not ending the hunger crisis in Gaza.| Palestine Chronicle
Gaza's Health Ministry warns of a deepening famine, and humanitarian agencies accuse Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war.| Palestine Chronicle
Watin was a happy and healthy two-year-old before the Israel-Gaza war. Now her mother fears she will starve to death before Gaza receives enough humanitarian aid.| www.abc.net.au
The failure of Western governments to address the humanitarian disasters and the corruption fueling conflicts in Africa is as short-sighted as it is tragic.| The Globalist
We uplift a call from La Via Campesina and other global movement organizations to carry out global weeks of fasting between May 19 and 30, 2025, in solidarity with the people of Palestine.| USFSA
After hours of waiting under the scorching sun, starving Palestinians stormed the militarized aid distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Live fire was reportedly opened on the crowd, as people struggled to get their hands on aid.| Mondoweiss
Illnesses that were manageable before the war are turning deadly amid “catastrophic levels” of food insecurity in Gaza, and 19 months of genocide have now led to the spread of new diseases, reaching record numbers.| Mondoweiss
Residents of north Gaza say a repeat of the early stages of the genocide is taking place, when hundreds of thousands were displaced to the south and barred from returning. Gazans fear that the latest wave is paving the way for the final displacement.| Mondoweiss
Israel’s plan to handle the distribution of aid in Gaza via a U.S. private contractor is a key part of its plan to ethnically cleanse its population. Here’s how.| Mondoweiss
96% de la population de Gaza est en haut niveau d'insécurité alimentaire. 500.000 gazaouis font face à la famine.| Contre Attaque
I'm afraid I can't quite agree, because our societal system isn't the only one in operation here. Nonhuman societies don't have "population limits" as such. Their populations are controlled by a feedback relationship with their food supply. (As their population increases, their food supply diminishes. As their food supply diminishes, their population diminishes; as [...] The post No societal system can be sustainable without population limits. I assume you agree. appeared first on Ishmael.org...| Ishmael.org, the work & philosophy of Daniel Quinn
“Over one million people in Gaza are starving,” proclaims a dramatic headline in the Wall Street Journal. Citing a new report from the International Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a partnership of 15 international agencies and non-government organisations, the Journal goes on to say: More than a million people in the Gaza Strip, around half of the enclave’s population, are experiencing famine-like conditions, according to new estimates by food-insecurity experts who found ev...| Coppola Comment
By Hyesop Shin1 and Yoosoon An2 Interviewer: (HS), University of Glasgow, UK Interviewee: (YA), Institute for Korean Regional Studies, Seoul National University, S.Korea. Introduction While there’s limited knowledge about North Korea’s farming system and food chain, it’s evident that soil degradation has been an ongoing concern for the nation. To gain deeper insights, I spoke … Continue reading How Agent-based Models Offer Insights on Strategies to Mitigate Soil Degradation in North K...| Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Urgent action, in particular immediate and unimpeded humanitarian access, is required to address the widening famine in Sudan, where almost 25 million| Green Prophet
Here’s Peter Zeihan to state what conservatives knew a decade ago: Venezuela is headed for collapse. | Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog
As Refugees International president Jeremy Konyndyk wrote in a post this week on NYU School of Law’s Just Security blog: Three months ago the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IP…| Counting Crowds
