February 29, 2024 [leap year] | In Gaza City, at least 104 Palestinian refugees were killed this Thursday when Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd waiting for food aid. “This isn’t the first time people have been shot at by Israeli forces while people have been trying to access food,” says the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, who accuses Israel of the war crime of intentional starvation. Random targetting of civilians in extreme vulnerability—Amon Göth style. Absolute evil.
This comes as reports grow of Palestinians resorting to animal feed and cactus leaves for sustenance and as experts warn of imminent agricultural collapse. “Every single person in Gaza is hungry,” says Fakhri, who emphasizes that famine in the modern context is a human-made catastrophe. “At this point I’m running out of words to be able to describe the horror of what’s happening and how vile the actions have been by Israel against the Palestinian civilians.”
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