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Jørgen Jensehaugen @jjensehaugen.bsky.social · Sep 2

Together with @kgberg.bsky.social I try to explain how we got to the famine in Gaza. www.prio.org/comments/1801

The starvation of Gaza is a deliberate policy – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

In recent days, Israel has commenced new attacks on Gaza, with humanitarian aid playing a key role in its forced expulsion of Palestinians.

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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · Sep 1

Recommended reading - by Christine Evans and Nieves Molina-Clemente
opiniojuris.org/2025/09/01/t...

The European Union Human Rights Sanctions Regime and its Applicability to the Situation in Gaza and the West Bank in Accordance with International Law

[Christine Evans is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the law faculty of Lund University and a human rights practitioner/investigator who has worked for the UN. Nieves Molina is an international lawyer…

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 31

'A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump admin, modeled on Trump’s vow to “take over” the enclave, would turn it into a trusteeship administered by the S for at least 10 years while it is transformed into a gleaming tourism resort and high-tech manufacturing and technology hub.'

Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population

President Donald Trump and international partners are discussing plans to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” on the rubble of Gaza. One would establish U.S. control and pay Palestinians to leave.

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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · Aug 26

«We must not allow the belligerent state to get away with saying this is an accident, collateral damage. … It’s part and parcel of a destruction of peoplehood — a people destroyed, fragmented, eviscerated — it’s the elimination, really, of a people,” @meznaqato.bsky.social

New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · Aug 26

The number of “cides” in Gaza is growing, but beyond its destruction of schools, hospitals, farmland and entire family lineages, Israel is also engaging in historicide — the destruction of history itself — argues @lsmwilson.bsky.social in @newlinesmag.bsky.social

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Historicide in Gaza

Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told

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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · Aug 23

Utsultingen av Gaza er en villet politikk
Kronikk med @jjensehaugen.bsky.social
www.forskersonen.no/gaza-israel-...

Utsultingen av Gaza er en villet politikk

KRONIKK: De siste dagene har Israel startet nye angrep i Gaza, og nødhjelp spiller en nøkkelrolle i fordrivelsen av palestinerne.

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hauntingly official: Famine has struck Gaza, says global hunger monitor www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Famine has struck Gaza, says global hunger monitor

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system said 514,000 people - nearly a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza - are experiencing famine, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the war-torn Palestinian enclave.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 19

‘Between 7 October 2023 and 13 May this year, according to Reuters, Germany had granted export licences for military equipment worth €485 million. Will anyone be left in Gaza to benefit from the supposed turning of the tide?’

Adam Shatz in Berlin: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adam Shatz · Berlin Diary

Throughout my stay in Berlin, I kept hearing from Germans quietly critical of Israel that ‘cracks’ had begun to...

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · Aug 7

The aim is reportedly to ultimately replace humanitarian aid delivery by the UN and aid orgs.

Our latest investigation lays out this flawed militarized aid distribution system:

Gaza: Israeli Killings of Palestinians Seeking Food Are War Crimes

Israeli forces at the sites of a new US-backed aid distribution system in Gaza have routinely opened fire on starving Palestinian civilians in acts that amount to serious violations of international l...

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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · Aug 5

«No one should act surprised» www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year

Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’

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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · Aug 1

"At this very moment, UNRWA alone has 6,000 trucks waiting just beyond the border with enough food to provide for the entire population of Gaza for three months."

"No evidence has been provided to substantiate any of Israel’s countless...weaponized allegations against UNRWA"

Let UNRWA Aid Trucks Into Gaza

The region’s most experienced aid agency could feed all of Gaza’s population for three months—if Israel would just let them do their job.

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · Jul 23

“Here, we are not dead, but we are not alive either.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...

In Egypt, displaced Palestinians have been forgotten

Bombing has forced some 100,000 people to flee from Gaza across the southern border. They are now living in limbo

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · Jul 31

NEW: Human rights lawyer @saribashi.bsky.social spent years litigating against Israeli military restrictions on access to Gaza. She didn't anticipate how quickly this bureaucracy would facilitate the destruction of its people, she writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

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This Is How You Conduct Genocide by the Regulations

The bureaucracy Israel implemented decades ago to control the population of Gaza has been weaponized to regulate and facilitate its destruction

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Jul 29

By continuing business as usual, Israel’s international partners are allowing the Israeli government to continue with its genocidal campaign with no consequences beyond symbolic gestures of disapproval and statements.
The time to act is now - me @theguardian.com

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I live in Britain; I grew up in Israel. It’s painful to say, but we need real UK sanctions to save Gaza | Yair Wallach

Symbolic gestures and empty statements are no longer enough. In Israel’s globalised economy, here’s what will shift public opinion, says says senior lecturer in Israeli studies Yair Wallach

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 30

I’m one of many Palestinian doctors in Israel. We’re being persecuted – but we won’t abandon our oath | Lina Qasem-Hassan

We’ve promised to provide equal care to all. Now we’re being punished for speaking out against the killing of medics and patients in Gaza, says Palestinian doctor Lina Qasem-Hassan

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 30

I lead a top Israeli human rights group. Our country is committing genocide | Yuli Novak

My generation was raised wondering how ordinary people could countenance an atrocity. In a grotesque twist, the question has circled back to us

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Jul 26

"The social breakdown that we are witnessing, the degrading of human beings, is not a byproduct of the harm that Israel is inflicting. That’s the central element of the crime: destroying Palestinian society."
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Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza | Alex de Waal

We saw famine in Biafra and Ethiopia. In the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s ‘aid distribution system’ we see an attempt to destroy a whole society, says academic and writer Alex de Waal

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · Jul 26

Must read.
"In the court of world opinion, a verdict is being handed down every day: the government of Israel is responsible for inhumanities that will scar their state for a long time, perhaps forever."

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · Jul 26

Starve, Pray, Die
In an interview, Alex de Waal discusses Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war in Gaza, and its repercussions.

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Starve, Pray, Die

In an interview, Alex de Waal discusses Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war in Gaza, and its repercussions.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Jul 26

Gaza has reached IPC Phase 5, which is the worst level of food insecurity & is associated with high amounts of death & permanent disability. For people experiencing this level of malnutrition, even if it ended today, many of the consequences (eg personal outcomes like disabilities) are irreversible.

Cade Mosley @cade76.bsky.social · May 17

IPC is projecting 22% of Palestinians in Gaza (495,000+ people) face a Phase 5 Catastrophe level of food insecurity (extreme food shortage, starvation & high death rates) June-Sept if food aid is not forthcoming & 33% (745K) at the Emergency level (high malnutrition).
www.ipcinfo.org/ipc-country-...

Gaza Strip: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for 1 May - 15 June and Projection for 16 June - 30 September 2024 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 25

‘Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to allow in, as though food were a legitimate bargaining chip. Gazans cannot afford to wait for either.’

New on the blog: Amjad Iraqi on Gaza.

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Amjad Iraqi | Walking Corpses

Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks to...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 26

‘The inability of Western powers to condemn Israel’s conduct – much less bring it to an end – has made a mockery of the rules-based order that they claim to uphold.’

Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October

The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jul 21

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled"

Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

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Olivier Monnier @olivmon.bsky.social · Jul 25

"The machinery of death must be stopped, not merely slowed."

@crisisgroup.org's latest statement on the situation in #Gaza.

www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

Open the Gates to Save a Starving Gaza | International Crisis Group

As ceasefire talks drag on, Gaza is tipping from mass starvation toward mass death. Israel must allow assistance in immediately. But that step alone will not save the strip’s depleted population. Gaza...

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · Jul 15

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

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Kjersti G. Berg @kgberg.bsky.social · Jun 29

www.dci-palestine.org/starving_a_g...

“Starving a Generation” report indicts Israel for weaponizing starvation as a tool of genocide

New report from Defense for Children International - Palestine on Israel's systematic starvation of Palestinian children in Gaza.

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Jørgen Jensehaugen @jjensehaugen.bsky.social · Jun 27

Nytt Babylon ute! I artikkelen Skyggekrigen mot UNRWA etter 7. oktober 2023 viser @kgberg.bsky.social & jeg hvordan Israel undergravde UNRWAs legitimitet. Det beredte grunnen for den katastrofen som er Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

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Visning av Skyggekrigen mot UNRWA etter 7. oktober 2023

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