I grew up on food stamps. This new report is especially painful. Per the UN: A quarter of Gaza’s population is now starving. STARVING. That’s 550,000 people, including ~275,000 children.
“It doesn’t get any worse,’’ said Arif Husain, chief economist for the U.N.’s World Food Program. “I have never seen something at the scale that is happening in Gaza.”
Think about this reality as you celebrate Christmas this week. We must demand and do better.
I’m running for U.S. Congress to…
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…uphold human rights and dignity for all people. It is unacceptable to me that my opponent sits in a position of power, and still refuses to raise his voice to call for a ceasefire. What could be so important to him that he’s convinced watching a half million people starve is better than having the courage to call for ceasefire? This is not leadership.
I am deeply pained outraged. And my resolve has never been stronger to demand international human right law and justice for all people.
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Please educate yourself on the situation. Yes it is unacceptable that so many are starving. But the aid that is entering Gaza isn't able to reach a majority of the Gaza population because it is being seized by armed terrorists.
A ceasefire means nothing to a group that consistently breaks it
@QasimRashid you should be demanding for the return of the hostages and for the immediate surrender of all Hamas operatives, and not for a ceasefire that will only prolong the suffering of the Gazan people due to the corrupt and murderous government which started all of it.
@QasimRashid I appreciate your empathy. Hamas and its wealthy leaders in exile have spent millions or even hundreds of millions stockpiling supplies and building tunnels. People in Gaza should be asking them for food.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/world/middleeast/palestine-gazans-hamas-food.html
The World Food Program's biggest donor is the US, footing the bill for Hamas's neglect. 80% of Gazans before this war depended on international aid. WFP cut off 200k Palestinians in May due to funding shortages. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/world-food-programme-suspend-aid-palestinians-due-funding-shortage-2023-05-07/
@QasimRashid Generally, UN organizations like WFP have a sordid track record of singling out and demonizing Israel.
For example, just this year, the WFP has published 21 press releases about Palestine and only 8 about Democratic Republic of Congo, where nearly 7 million people are at risk of starvation due to conflict.
@QasimRashid Only 6 news releases this year about Malawi, where WFP had to halve food rations for refugees in July due to funding shortages and in March Cyclone Freddy put 3.8 million people at risk of acute food insecurity.
https://www.wfp.org/news?f%5B0%5D=country%3A2025&f%5B1%5D=year%3A2023
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