Article Starmer’s DIY move on Palestine statehood + Anger at Israel washes over Netanyahu

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Since MR lacks the intellectual honesty to address it elsewhere:

87% of the UN's 2,010 food trucks in Gaza (85% by tonnage) from May 19–July 29 were intercepted

Central to the international pressure on Israel for a ceasefire with Hamas are claims of widespread starvation and even accusations that Israel is deliberately using hunger as a weapon.

But the Press Service of Israel’s closer examination of the humanitarian aid pipeline found that a combination of United Nations policies, Hamas looting, and black market profiteering prevents much aid from reaching Gaza civilians and inflates the prices of items that do reach market shelves.

Most damningly, according to the UN’s own numbers, a staggering 85% of the aid entering the Gaza Strip by truck since May 19 has been stolen.

“There is some hunger in Gaza, and it exists only in places Hamas is pursuing it, not in other areas,” said Professor Eytan Gilboa, an expert in international relations and media at Reichman University in Herzliya.
- https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-862878

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Source: https://app.un2720.org/tracking
And if you don't know what the UN2720 Mechanism for Gaza is: https://www.un.org/unispal/document/upda...m-04jul24/

UN Refuses to Cooperatively Distribute Aid as Reported Hunger Grows in Gaza
The GHF has even offered to distribute the UN's 950 truckloads of aid for free, yet the UN has refused to feed Gaza.

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Seven more people have died from malnutrition in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry in the Palestinian territory has said.

It says the total number of malnutrition deaths since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in 2023 has now reached 154 - including 89 children.
- https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2x813jm0zo

Does that sound like genocide? 154 since Oct 2023?

What about this comparison?

A growing number of California’s oldest residents are dying of malnutrition, a yearslong trend that accelerated during the COVID pandemic.

Deaths attributed to malnutrition more than doubled, from about 650 in 2018 to roughly 1,400 in 2022, according to preliminary death certificate data from the California Department of Public Health. The same trend occurred nationwide, with malnutrition deaths more than doubling, from about 9,300 deaths in 2018 to roughly 20,500 in 2022, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/...in-the-u-s

Is this intentional euthanasia? Is this a crime against humanity too?