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According to the UN, 2.2 million people are in Crisis food insecurity (level 3 of 5), and more than half a million people are in what they call Catastrophe (level 5 of 5, the worst level of food insecurity a population can be in and still be alive). Amnesty International released a statement talking about how Israel is not only failing to comply with the ICJ ruling that steps must be made to protect civilians, they are actively obstructing aid. Right at the start of the war the military and political leaders of Israel made it explicitly clear they were going to starve the Gazans, and yet people still want to believe this wasn't the plan the whole time.
Now the spin from Israel that is being put forth in the media is that the Palestinians are to blame for being desperate. When your entire population is halfway down the ladder to starvation with over 500k folks literally on the verge of dying from hunger, what do you expect? The desperation isn't a Palestinian failing, it's a human reaction that any population would have to months of illegal collective punishment via starvation.
I could not be more ashamed of supposedly moral Western nations like the USA, Germany, Britain and my own country of Canada who are not just being silent while the most intense humanitarian crisis of my life takes place, but are actively funding and giving diplomatic cover to it.
Shame on our Canada for being a part of this.