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World Bank report finds imminent risk of catastrophic famine in Gaza Strip
(www.theguardian.com)
When you're dead set on -making- your propheses come true...
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Revelations is going to be entirely man-made, huh?
And then it'll blow over without a Judgement Day at the end, just another, "Whoops... How did we let that happen?"
That seems to be on point with how our species' legacy's gone so far.
Oof. Sometimes the truth just hurts to read...
Citing the sheer number of people facing catastrophic hunger, Guterres said leaders needed to “act now before it was too late”. He also renewed calls for Hamas to release all the Israeli hostages unconditionally.
Where is the call for israel to release their hostages unconditionally? Israel has currently kidnapped more children in their torture jails than Hamas has total hostages. Israel has more than 3000 Palestinian hostages in their torture prisons.
Maybe I am a radical, but I see this as a foreshadowing of what's to come to the rest of us with global climate change.
It's foreshadowing brutal xenophobic authoritarianism in the West
This has nothing to do with climate change, except for the likely possibility that billions of climate displaced people will (through no fault of their own) fuel xenophobia across the globe by their mere presence throughout the next century, potentially resulting in several holocausts that our children's children will be dealing with.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Half the population of the Gaza Strip is at imminent risk of famine as food shortages approach catastrophic levels for more than a million people, the World Bank has warned.
“I call on the Israeli authorities to ensure complete and unfettered access for humanitarian routes throughout Gaza,” he said before a meeting with the European Commission’s president in Brussels.
The World Bank said the projected famine could happen at any time between now and late May and conditions were being exacerbated by a number of factors including relentless hostilities, widespread damage to infrastructure and restricted humanitarian access, hindering the delivery of essential supplies and services.
In hardened language, the latest draft declaration now says “full, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access” to Gaza must be given “to provide the civilian population with life-saving assistance and basic services at scale”.
Médecins Sans Frontières, which was given access two days ago to Rafah to set up a makeshift care centre, said it was seeing diarrhoea due to poor sanitation and respiratory infections in children caused by sleeping in tents during winter.
On Tuesday 30 April, 7-8.15pm GMT, join Devika Bhat, Peter Beaumont, Emma Graham-Harrison and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad as they discuss the fast-developing crisis in the Middle East.
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