Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were expected to begin airdrops in the coming days, but experts warned that the bulk of necessary aid could come only by land.
by Aaron Boxerman
Israel said on Friday that it would soon allow other countries to drop aid from the air into the Gaza Strip during a widening humanitarian crisis in which several children have died of malnutrition.
Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were expected to begin airdrops in the coming days, according to COGAT, the Israeli military agency that regulates humanitarian affairs in Gaza.
Experts criticized the drops as largely symbolic and warned that they were unlikely to provide enough aid to the roughly two million Palestinians in Gaza, who are in dire conditions after 21 months of war.
Nearly one in three people in the territory is coping with food insecurity, according to the United Nations’ World Food Program. The Gaza health authorities say that acute malnutrition is rising and that children have died.
(nytimes.com)
Jeepers-creepers, Aaron, that’s very reassuring. Only a third of the population suffers from this “food insecurity,” poor devils don’t have their larders quite up to snuff, eh, and what’s that you say about malnutrition carting off a few children, well most cities that size lose as many or more than “several” so I take it the lunatic leftwing alternative press is flat out fabricating all this alarm about genocide and such. Bless you Aaron Bookman for putting it all into a calm and reasonable perspective.
Are you providing us an example of “tongue-in-cheek” humor regarding this grotesque situation that Israel has been striving for…ever since they were allowed, by a guilt-ridden west, to steal Palestine from the Palestinians? My guess is that Palestinians are simply the agrarian “chosen ones” who stayed behind while their wealthier cohabitants of Palestine set out, voluntarily, north and south and west to settle elsewhere, intermarrying as they went.
That’s the beauty of irony, Harvey. You can read it either way. But what struck me about Aaron’s report was the detached, passive voice and vague attributions as though it was all wrought by the inscrutable Hand of God; not to mention the obscenely minimized number of victims and the cruelly indifferent tone of the reporter, the sly dog.
“ ‘There is no one in Gaza now outside the scope of famine, not even myself,’ said Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, who leads the pediatric ward at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. ‘I am speaking to you as a health official, but I, too, am searching for flour to feed my family.’
The World Food Program, an arm of the United Nations, said this week that the hunger crisis in Gaza had reached ‘new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row.’
Dr. al-Farra said the number of children dying of malnutrition had risen sharply in recent days. He described harrowing scenes of people too exhausted to walk. Many of the children he sees have no pre-existing medical conditions, he said, giving the example of Siwar Barbaq, who was born healthy and now, at 11 months old, should weigh about 20 pounds but is under nine pounds.
After 21 months of devastating conflict set off by the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the lack of available food and water is taking a heavy toll on Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians — the young, the old and the sick.”
NYT, 7/25/25
We all watch in horror as Israel, a criminal nation now, commits the atrocity of deliberate starvation of a people. Israel continues to lie every day about its intent and actions.
Israel’s been lying since long before it was stolen.
We’d think the Leftist AVA would at the very least include other Leftist sources (Democracy Now!, The Intercept, The Grayzone, etc.) for news about the Palestinian Holocaust. But we’d be wrong — for some most curious reason, the AVA, totally out of character, merely regurgitates Zionist propaganda from the notoriously Zionist NYT.
No we don’t. Citations? You’re lying. We are aggressively opposed to Israel’s genocidal assaults on Gaza and the West Bank.
You want “citations.”
I gave you citations.
I don’t expect you to monitor comments 24/7, so maybe you haven’t got to them yet.
If so, I understand.
I don’t know this guy, but he’s grasped me by my lapels and, spittle flying, “Citations! I gave you citations!” My daughter always told me I was nut magnet.
Maj. Scaramella still keeps the AVA’s Nut Repeller close at hand, I hope? This piddling little spat has an ugly edge to it, Chief. Put the cats on high alert sentry duty and make L’il Dog Sgt o’ the Guard… hold on ‘til the sheriff gets back from his fishing trip, he must have his creel limit by now.
In good faith I ignored you calling me a liar and calmly provided exactly the proof you requested.
OK, but saying we’re soft on the Israelis is demonstrably untrue. I’d peg you as an obsessive personality type obsessed with pounding everyone else with your anti-semitic-based opinions. Like all obsessives you get angry when people don’t share your unfounded views And you’re boring. Please go where crazy talk is more appreciated.
I calmly provided exactly the evidence you demanded, including evidence your lying NYT promoted more phony Zionist war propaganda.
Lacking the integrity to post it, you (surprise surprise) play your boring AntisemitismCard.
What have they got on you, Bruce? You’re embarrassing yourself.
:-)
Let me guess who “they” is.
Golly Bruce, that is a tough one…
Hmm…
… who wouldn’t want you using more credible sources than the Zionist NYT to report on the Palestinian Holocaust?
:-)
JOHNNIE THE LIAR
“On the same day Gaza health officials reported that at least 20 Palestinians died of malnutrition in the Strip’s hospitals over the past two days, the American official in charge of delivering food amid Israel’s restriction of aid declared his program a success.
‘We’ve been filling a massive gap in a way that’s direct to the people, that prioritizes the security of the situation in this very complex environment,’ said Johnnie Moore, the chair of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, on Tuesday during an event hosted by the American Jewish Congress and joined by the World Zionist Organization. ‘And despite what you may read in the press and the criticism that you hear from the United Nations and other institutions, what we’re doing has actually been unbelievably effective.’
As Palestinians continue to starve to death in Gaza, Moore, an evangelical minister and former religious adviser to the Trump administration, has spent the past several weeks defending his organization’s work. He’s appeared on mainstream TV news outlets and in interviews with pro-Israel podcasts. He and his foundation have messaged in lockstep with the Israeli government, as both cast blame on Hamas officials and the international community for a famine of Israel’s creation.”
“Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Head Boasts Success as Palestinians Starve”
THE INTERCEPT, 7/27/25