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.
“ ‘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.