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Saba Yemen
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Germany calls for end to Genocide in Gaza
Berlin - Saba: German Foreign Minister Florian Haan demanded an immediate end to the genocide being committed by Israel in Gaza Strip. In a written statement issued on Sunday ahead of his visit to Madrid, Haan stressed that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is unbearable and that Germany continues to advocate for a ceasefire. Earlier, Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares affirmed that his country will continue to raise its voice for a halt to military operations in Gaza, emphasizing the importance of defending justice and the dignity of Palestinian civilians. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (International)
Kiwiblog
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Kiwiblog
No there isn't a famine in Gaza
The Free Press reports: The IPC never declared a famine in Gaza. The report she cited was a projection of possible outcomes, not a conclusive finding. The next month, USAID issued its own analysis alleging that famine was underway, an indictment so serious that it required confirmation from an independent board of global experts known as the Famine Review Committee (FRC). The FRC, which functions as the IPC's final authority and quality control check, rebuked the USAID analysis, calling its conclusions insupportable. The failures were stunning. Private sector food deliveries, such as trucks contracted to commercial warehouses, were left out of the agency's estimates of the total food supply in north Gaza. As a result, as much as 82 percent of the 'daily kilocalorie requirement' in northern Gaza last April wasn't counted. In the same month, USAID's famine monitor also left out 940 metric tons (2 million pounds) of flour, sugar, salt, and yeast donated by the UN to bakeries in north Gaza, enough to make about 1,400 metric tons (3 million pounds) of bread. The IPC is the authoritative body when it comes to defining how severe food insecurity is in a region, and whether it constitutes a famine. They have never declared there is a famine in Gaza. They have in Sudan, incidentally. It was never in doubt that the Israel-Hamas war brought immense human suffering to Gaza, including from food shortages. But USAID depicted a world that had little in common with reality. There is suffering and a shortage of food. But that is not the same as a famine. Famine —like genocide , fascist , and dictator —is a word susceptible to rhetorical abuse that can dilute and even invert its meaning. 'My goal was to take famine from being a rhetorical word and make it a technical term,' Haan told me. When the IPC uses the word famine now, 'we mean famine.' If everything is a genocide, a famine or a fascism, then over time nothing is. It is important to not allow hyperbole rob terms of their meaning.
