Alex de Waal in the Boston Review: The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip. ” These were the words of food insecurity experts at the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) mechanism earlier this week. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replied, “Israel is presented as though we are applying a campaign of starvation in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replied, “Israel is presented as though we are applying a campaign of starvation in Gaza. What a bald-faced lie. There is no policy of starvation in Gaza and there is no starvation in Gaza.
There is no policy of starvation in Gaza and there is no starvation in Gaza. ” To the extent that there is hunger, he says, it is the fault of Hamas for stealing United Nations aid—a claim backed by no evidence, part and parcel of the demonization used to justify all its actions in Gaza.