Tragic footage shows the impact of the occupation’s criminal starvation blockade
Israel’s total blockade of food and other essentials for life in Gaza has been in place for almost two months – an unequivocal crime under international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions – and the people of Gaza had already been grossly deprived of adequate nutrition for sixteen months of Israel’s genocide before it started.
Now, while bombs and missiles continue to rain down on Gaza’s desperate survivors, children are dying of hunger – and an even greater number are close to death:
Children have been Israel’s particular target throughout this genocide, from snipers’ bullets to its bombs and its denial even of pain relief for the maimed and dying – and now of its deliberate starvation of innocents. The United Nations said this week that Palestinian children are “going to bed starving” while ample food is just a few kilometres away but prevented by the occupation regime from reaching them:
The siege on Gaza is the silent killer of children… Families – whole families, seven or eight people – are resorting to sharing one can of beans or peas. Imagine not having anything to feed your children. Children in Gaza are going to bed starving.
We have just over 5,000 trucks in several parts of the region with lifesaving supplies that are ready to come in.
This decision is crippling the humanitarian efforts…and threatening the lives and survival of civilians in Gaza, who are also going through heavy bombardment day in, day out.
The UK government and its ‘mainstream’ media continue to ignore these crimes.
Israel is demanding help from the international community to fight massive wildfires that its own extremists started to attack Palestinians in the West Bank. None should be given until it lifts the blockade and ends its bombing and extermination in Gaza and lifts the siege completely.
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I’m sure that Starmer will soon say “Israel does NOT have that right…” But I might be wrong ….
https://www.defenddemocracy.press/feed-gaza-just-feed-gaza/
“Feed Gaza, Just Feed Gaza
30/04/2025
by Paul Larudee*
April 28, 2025
Today the World Food Program, the biggest supplier of food to Gaza, ran out of food. Its supplies inside Gaza are gone, and Israel is allowing no food, no water, no medical supplies or anything else to get in. The WFP distributed the last of its food, mainly to kitchens that feed as many hungry as they can, perhaps enough for a few days more. Send as much money as you like to relief agencies and to persons in Gaza. Few will find anything to buy.
After that, there are the hoarders and smugglers, both Israeli and Palestinian, who will make money, while reserving enough for themselves. They will hide in their closets to eat, and will have to find ways to protect themselves from the starving skeletons that will try to feed themselves by any means possible.
Adults in good health can survive without food for 2-3 months. But how many in Gaza are adults, and how many in good health? And if they don’t have enough clean drinking water, they might last much shorter in their weakened state. That describes the rule, rather than the exception.
That’s Israel’s plan. It has destroyed everything that sustains life: the pitiful attempts at agriculture, the bakeries, the animals, the food storage centers, the water treatment facilities, the sanitary and hygiene infrastructure, the hospitals, the shelters, everything. If they can manage this for 90 days, there will be only two million skeletons and lots of rubble to bulldoze. Not even insects or vermin, which will have long since been consumed by the skeletons. Perhaps even the skeletons will have been consumed by skeletons. The most vulnerable will die in the first month, but the pace will accelerate in the second, and then taper off to nothing by the end of the third.
That’s Israel’s plan. They don’t mind if the population flees Gaza or is carted away by some other country. But it seems unlikely. Gaza’s only borders are with Israel, Egypt and the sea. Egypt will not take them. Israel will not take them. Only the sea will take them, with the same but quicker results as remaining in Gaza.
What will the world do? We know what the US will do. It will supply the weapons and economic support to enable Israel to fulfill its plan. Some of the European nations and their allies will do the same. Most of the rest will sit on their hands while simultaneously wringing them, which is not as difficult as it sounds. Much of the world will follow suit, to the refrain of “What can we do?” Yemen is the only country, along with some non-state actors in the Axis of Resistance, that will do its part to destroy the perpetrator of the greatest crime of our century as it happens before our eyes.
And what will we do? Write letter and articles like this one? Demonstrate? Call corrupt and criminal elected representatives? Obtain legal judgments against Israel and its leadership in court? Resolutions at the UN? Will we destroy the interests and the representatives of the criminal enterprise in our own countries and communities? Will we assure that everything Israeli will be subjected to expurgation from our societies until Israel ceases and desists from committing the unspeakable?
Will we? I’ll check back with you in 90 days.
Paul Larudee is a retired academic and current administrator of a nonprofit human rights and humanitarian aid organization.”
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Larudee is unfortunately accurate in his assessment. On the basis of the available evidence, writing letters, demonstrating and attempting to pass judgments in courts with no teeth and no clout is not going to stop this ongoing crime and save what is left of an entire people who are considered surplus to requirements and therefore disposable.
And once that precedent has been set of destroying an entire people, the question arises as to who is next to be considered surplus to requirements and chosen to receive the same extermination treatment by whatever means is deemed appropriate by the psychopaths running the collective West and their Zionist proxies in Israel; Jihadist head choppers and Uighur associates proxies in Syria and elsewhere in the Rimland and beyond; and the neo-Nazi knuckle draggers in Eastern Europe?
It would seem reasonable in the light of all the available facts and evidence to conclude that the only way to stop these criminals in their tracks are for citizens to take the law into their own hands and end the existence of all those perpetuating such crimes along with all those who are deliberately and knowingly directly and indirectly aiding and abetting them materially, politically and “morally”.
Because, appealing to the ‘better nature’ of people who have consistently demonstrated they have no better nature is not working and time is running out.
Paul Larudee is partly right, a human can live only about a week without food and water.
Adults in good health can survive without food for 2-3 months.
Here in the UK I attempted to prosecute Starmer as a litigant in person..I feel that I have been tricked by the Wirral MC into filling in another complaint form on 15th April 2024, when they knew my complaint would be out of time. the Wirral Magistrates Court officer said, “Thank you for your letter requesting a private prosecution” and “This must be submitted the application to us on the correct form” sic. In my opinion, ‘must’ in this context is an imperative, which in my opinion is wrong (and an abuse of process). Here are two articles refuting WMC Officer of the courts interpretation of the requirements…
5. A written information is ‘laid’ as soon as it is received in the clerk’s office, even if it is not considered by a clerk or a magistrate until later (R v. Manchester Stipendiary Magistrate ex p. Hill [1983] 1 AC 238). No standard form has to be used. All that matters is that the document sent to the magistrate’s court contains the essential elements of an information about an alleged offence. R v. Kennet Justices ex p Humphrey and Wyatt [1993] Crim. LR 787. https://foregatechambers.co.uk/private-prosecution/
Here is my complaint…
Dear Sir/Madam,
As a litigant in person I wish to bring a private prosecution under section 6 of the prosecution of offenders act 1985.
I wish to make a formal complaint against Sir Keir Starmer MP for Holborn and St Pancras, who is also the leader of HM Official opposition the Labour party. He has offices at Labour Party HQ in London and at the House of Commons, London, SW1A OAA.
On the 9th October 2023, Israel’s Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, said on behalf of the Israeli government:
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel. Everything is closed.”
In addition, according to Bloomberg television, 9th October 2023, he said “We are fighting human animals.”
During an interview with Nick Ferarri, of LBC News on 11th October 2023 at the Labour party conference in Albert dock Liverpool, Mr Ferarri posed questions – regarding Israel’s intention to commit grave war crimes, including collective punishment and the withholding of food, water and energy to approximately 2.3 million men, women and children of Gaza -to Mr Starmer.
Mr Ferarri asked Mr Starmer “A siege is appropriate. Cutting off power, cutting off water?” To which Mr Starmer replied “I think that Israel must have, does have, that right. It is an ongoing situation.” I accuse Mr Keir Starmer of a flagrant breach of section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, i.e.
Causing harassment, Alarm or Distress
1/ A person is guilty of an offence if he…
a) Uses threatening words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or
b) Displays any writing or sign or other visible representation which is threatening within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby.
Because his words condoned and encouraged the Israeli government’s illegal war crimes and in effect gave the Israeli government the green light to deprive the population of Gaza food, water and energy, in effect condemning them to death, Mr Starmer’s comments were directed against all the Palestinian inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, which has caused significant alarm and distress to them and has enraged and alarmed the Palestinian population of the UK, many of whom have relatives living in Gaza. The Muslim population, and millions of other UK citizens in the UK and the wider world, are enraged by Mr Starmer’s endorsement of Israel war crimes. Also there are many local councillors who have resigned because of Starmer’s statement.
The International Court of Justice has ruled that the Israeli assault on Gaza is a plausible case of Genocide, with the necessary ‘intent’. The Israeli defence minister’s threats as endorsed by Starmer were presented in evidence at the ICJ.
Because the Palestinians are defined as a national/ethnic group, his comments do have a racially aggravated dimension to them.
I visited two police stations prior to my Magistrates court application for a summons, they said they would record the complaint, but declined to take any action;
Starmer could not have argued that he did not mean those words since in section 5 Public Order Act the Prosecutor does not need to prove intent [Mens rea]. Starmer should now have had a record.
I used this sign around Runcorn and Helsby by election today…
STARMER SUPPORTS GENOCIDE
Nick Ferrari LBC News… Does Israel have the right to cut off Food, Water and Energy to 2.3 Million in Gaza.
STARMER YES.