Palestinians are starving. Airdropping of aid must begin immediately
As a British-Palestinian with a lifetime of seeing atrocities committed against my people, the current onslaught has felt worse than any other.
As an aid worker with decades of experiencing humanitarian crises, the growing suffering in Gaza seems the most severe I have seen. Sadly, this is not a feeling grounded in recency bias, this is a reality grounded in fact.
The UN’s hunger monitoring agency, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, has confirmed that “this is the highest share of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity that the IPC initiative has ever classified for any given area or country”.
In a world where the depravity of inhumanity has seldom been impeded, the people of Gaza are now enduring actions historic in our species’ ability to inflict death and destruction on others.
Catastrophic famine is being ushered in because people are being deliberately starved of the bare essentials humans need to survive - food and water.