How was Isr. able to starve 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza at unprecedented speed and intensity?I answer this question in my new report. I'll be discussing my report with the UN General Assembly on Friday, October 18.This didn’t start in October.Isr. started restricting goods into Gaza in 1991. Imposed full blockade in 2000. Military siege in 2005. The Isr. Ministry of Health measured incoming calories to ensure that people Gaza stayed hungry enough not to trigger a humanitarian crisis .
The "full blockade" he is referring to was Israel closing off Gaza in response to the wave of suicide bombings at the beginning of the second intifada. The "military siege" was after Israel unilaterally withdrew all its citizens from Gaza in 2005 and as suicide bombings continued.
It’s not just Gaza. And it’s not just restricting goods + humanitarian aid.Isr. has been destroying the Palestinian food system for 70+ years. Destroying orchards & farms. Harassing/ killing peasants, fishers & shepherds.
Also, years of working with Palestinian farmers, helping them export through Israeli ports, sometimes even advising Palestinian farmers on the best crops for them to make the most money. You know who protested this cooperation? Palestinians! Which totally refutes Fakri's theory of Israel deliberately trying to destroy the food system.
In Gaza, malnutrition, famine, and disease are killing more people than bombs and bullets. This personal and social trauma is going to be carried by Palestinians for several generations in the future.
Really? More Gazans are being killed by famine and disease than war? This is a bigger lie than the Al Ahli Hospital libel. Even Hamas says that only 36 Gazans have starved to death while they claim over 40,000 wartime casualties (of whom, of course, nearly half are Hamas members themselves.) Nobody has said what Fakhri s claiming - not UNICEF, not UNRWA, not WHO, not OCHA, not even Al Jazeera.
Lying is apparently a qualification for the job of UN Special Rapporteur.
Why is this happening? This about land.In 2023, Isr. seized more Palestinian land than in any given year in the past 30 yrs. Isr. wants to erase the Palestinians from their homeland + territory and deny them their right to return to Palestine.
If Israel is only interested in Gaza to take over the land then why, exactly, did Israel withdraw from Gaza in 2005? Why did it sign the Oslo Accords giving Palestinians the first land they've had in their short history to begin with?
Fakhri's analysis doesn't stand up to two seconds of thought. Maybe it flies at the UN and with his college students at the University of Oregon, but it is not just wrong but maliciously wrong.
His solutions are antisemitic by definition.
What can be done now? Ceasefire now. All countries have a duty to end the starvation and genocide. Countries and corps. supplying Isr. with money and weapons are complicit. Other countries should impose economic, political and cultural sanctions. Institutions should divest.
And Hamas must survive to plan more October 7ths.
What can be done for the future of Palestinians?Any discussion about 1-state, 2-state or whatever political configuration must prioritize two things:-the Palestinian people’s right to return to Palestine; and - the full realization of their human rights and dignity.
But not Israel's security.
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