Miguel Afonso Caetano
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

"One metric used by the IPC to measure acute malnutrition is the mid-upper-arm circumference of children under five. By this measure some 15% of children in the governorate of Gaza are acutely malnourished, a level consistent with the IPC’s definition of phase four (an emergency) and phase five (a famine). This percentage has doubled every four weeks over the past three months. If current trends continue, more than half of children there could be acutely malnourished by the end of September.

The declaration of famine will probably change little on the ground. The food flowing into Gaza is far less than what is needed. Domestic production has collapsed. More than 98% of cropland is damaged or inaccessible. Only 26% of sheep, 34% of goats, 4% of cattle and 1% of poultry have survived the war. Fishing has ceased under Israeli restrictions. Food prices are ruinous: in July they rose by another 25%, pushing the cost of staples to nearly 100 times their level during a February ceasefire and 150 times their pre-war level. It does not help that there is little fuel or clean water with which to cook. A catastrophic situation is getting worse by the day."

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/08/22/the-evolution-of-famine-in-gaza-in-maps-and-charts

#Palestine#Gaza #Israel#Starvation#HumanRights#Genocide#EthnicCleansing
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

"One metric used by the IPC to measure acute malnutrition is the mid-upper-arm circumference of children under five. By this measure some 15% of children in the governorate of Gaza are acutely malnourished, a level consistent with the IPC’s definition of phase four (an emergency) and phase five (a famine). This percentage has doubled every four weeks over the past three months. If current trends continue, more than half of children there could be acutely malnourished by the end of September.

The declaration of famine will probably change little on the ground. The food flowing into Gaza is far less than what is needed. Domestic production has collapsed. More than 98% of cropland is damaged or inaccessible. Only 26% of sheep, 34% of goats, 4% of cattle and 1% of poultry have survived the war. Fishing has ceased under Israeli restrictions. Food prices are ruinous: in July they rose by another 25%, pushing the cost of staples to nearly 100 times their level during a February ceasefire and 150 times their pre-war level. It does not help that there is little fuel or clean water with which to cook. A catastrophic situation is getting worse by the day."

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/08/22/the-evolution-of-famine-in-gaza-in-maps-and-charts

#Palestine#Gaza #Israel#Starvation#HumanRights#Genocide#EthnicCleansing
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"There is something crazy-making about all of this: the posture of ingenuous lament by the engineers of our predicament. One wonders if this moral wakefulness is merely prelude to another nightmare. On August 8, Netanyahu’s government approved a plan to expand the war by taking control of Gaza City — ignoring the advice of its own military. As Yezid Sayigh, a Palestinian analyst in Beirut, told the London Review of Books, Israel’s leaders have cornered themselves. The civilian population in Gaza remains the principal obstacle to the colonization of Greater Israel: “Israel has set itself on a trajectory for which it has no solutions other than a final solution.”

If Israel is on the precipice of all-out ethnic cleansing, the moral plaints of western leaders appear to be late petitions for their own innocence. “People want to look like they were on the right side of history,” said Wertheim, “just before a new threshold is crossed.”

In the first week of August, Anthony Aguilar, a retired Green Beret who has said he witnessed the IDF using “indiscriminate and unnecessary force” against starving civilians in Gaza, predicted it would be “days, not months,” before Americans have a truer sense of the devastation there: “It’s going to bring the world to its knees.” It seems western leaders have summoned precisely enough political will to fail to stop a world-historic crime.

Is it actually too late? El Akkad said that of course it is and, at the same time, “there is no such thing as too late.” Despair is no use to the living."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/consensus-on-gaza-rapidly-shifting-famine-looms-israel-escalates.html

#USA #Israel#Palestine#Gaza#Starvation#Genocide#EthnicCleansing#HumanRights
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"There is something crazy-making about all of this: the posture of ingenuous lament by the engineers of our predicament. One wonders if this moral wakefulness is merely prelude to another nightmare. On August 8, Netanyahu’s government approved a plan to expand the war by taking control of Gaza City — ignoring the advice of its own military. As Yezid Sayigh, a Palestinian analyst in Beirut, told the London Review of Books, Israel’s leaders have cornered themselves. The civilian population in Gaza remains the principal obstacle to the colonization of Greater Israel: “Israel has set itself on a trajectory for which it has no solutions other than a final solution.”

If Israel is on the precipice of all-out ethnic cleansing, the moral plaints of western leaders appear to be late petitions for their own innocence. “People want to look like they were on the right side of history,” said Wertheim, “just before a new threshold is crossed.”

In the first week of August, Anthony Aguilar, a retired Green Beret who has said he witnessed the IDF using “indiscriminate and unnecessary force” against starving civilians in Gaza, predicted it would be “days, not months,” before Americans have a truer sense of the devastation there: “It’s going to bring the world to its knees.” It seems western leaders have summoned precisely enough political will to fail to stop a world-historic crime.

Is it actually too late? El Akkad said that of course it is and, at the same time, “there is no such thing as too late.” Despair is no use to the living."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/consensus-on-gaza-rapidly-shifting-famine-looms-israel-escalates.html

#USA #Israel#Palestine#Gaza#Starvation#Genocide#EthnicCleansing#HumanRights
Dimitri Dhuyvetter
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

On Sunday, Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the hotly contested holy site, and declared, “We are relaying a message that from today on, we are conquering the entire Gaza Strip, announcing our sovereignty on the entire Gaza Strip, taking down every Hamas member, and encouraging voluntary emigration”—his preferred euphemism for ethnic cleansing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/08/right-wing-israeli-settlers-annex-gaza/683776/

#gaza #gazagenocide #ethniccleansing #itamarbengvir #israel
Dimitri Dhuyvetter
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

On Sunday, Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the hotly contested holy site, and declared, “We are relaying a message that from today on, we are conquering the entire Gaza Strip, announcing our sovereignty on the entire Gaza Strip, taking down every Hamas member, and encouraging voluntary emigration”—his preferred euphemism for ethnic cleansing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/08/right-wing-israeli-settlers-annex-gaza/683776/

#gaza #gazagenocide #ethniccleansing #itamarbengvir #israel

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DrALJONES
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Report: "Western European opinion of Israel plummets"

In each of six countries* surveyed, "only 13-21% of respondents expressed a favourable view of Israel, while 63-70% said their opinion was unfavourable."

"Only 7-18 percent said they sympathised most with Israel".

*Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy & Spain

https://aje.io/jaudnt?update=3750667

#GazaGenocide#EthnicCleansing#USEnablement#USPol#UKPol#EuroPol @palestine#BDS .
Touaregtweet
@touaregtweet@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Fuck them all. Ze zijn allemaal medeplichtig. #EU#USA #genocide#Israel #TerroristState#Netanyahu #warcriminal#ICC#Gaza#IDF #warcrimes #ethniccleansing

https://nos.nl/artikel/2575166-eu-ministers-nemen-geen-maatregelen-tegen-israel-houden-opties-op-tafel

Het was vanaf het begin af aan duidelijk: vage onderzoeken instellen, tijdrekken en laf voor je uitschuiven, vooral geen sancties instellen, maar wapens blijven leveren en Israel geen duimbreed in de weg leggen. Veldkamp heeft bloed aan zijn handen.
#Veldkamp #notinmyname
https://rightsforum.org/concentratiekampen-zijn-de-volgende-stap-in-genocide-op-palestijnen/
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Touaregtweet
@touaregtweet@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Fuck them all. Ze zijn allemaal medeplichtig. #EU#USA #genocide#Israel #TerroristState#Netanyahu #warcriminal#ICC#Gaza#IDF #warcrimes #ethniccleansing

https://nos.nl/artikel/2575166-eu-ministers-nemen-geen-maatregelen-tegen-israel-houden-opties-op-tafel

Het was vanaf het begin af aan duidelijk: vage onderzoeken instellen, tijdrekken en laf voor je uitschuiven, vooral geen sancties instellen, maar wapens blijven leveren en Israel geen duimbreed in de weg leggen. Veldkamp heeft bloed aan zijn handen.
#Veldkamp #notinmyname
https://rightsforum.org/concentratiekampen-zijn-de-volgende-stap-in-genocide-op-palestijnen/
FREE PALESTINE ✊