Illinois veteran on Gaza flotilla "unlawfully" detained in Israeli prison
Family and lawyers are calling on state senators to help with her release
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Family and lawyers are calling on state senators to help with her release
During nearly two years of war, Israel has restricted or cut off the entry of aid to Gaza. People have also been killed trying to get aid at distribution sites run by the controversial U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Israel's military has rejected the report, calling it "false, biased, and based on Hamas lies."
The IPC, a global body that monitors hunger crises, says 22 months of war in Gaza have left half a million people facing "starvation, destitution and death." Israel calls it "lies."
The leading international authority on food crises predicted "widespread death" in Gaza without immediate action.
Both aid groups and people with family in Gaza described the situation as the worst it has ever been.
The World Food Programme says warehouses are now empty, soup kitchens are serving up their final supply, and the food that is still on the market is being sold at extremely high prices.
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network, or FEWS NET, made the assessment, the first to assess whether famine is actually happening in the territory.
Israel's military said it killed scores of Hamas and other militants and seized weapons and valuable intelligence during a two-week raid on Gaza's largest hospital. But one Palestinian said, "The occupation destroyed all sense of life here."
More than a million Palestinians in Gaza are facing imminent famine, according to a new report from the United Nations, and the International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to immediately allow food and water into the Gaza Strip. Israel has been accused of deliberately starving Palestinian civilians. Dr. John Kahler, a pediatrician and co-founder of the medical nonprofit Medglobal, recently returned from his second aid trip to Gaza and shared what he witnessed.
It comes as Israel prepares for a potentially catastrophic invasion of Rafah. That's the southern Gaza city, where over a million Palestinian civilians have been taking refuge for months.
International aid organizations are saying children in Gaza are dying of starvation, and are warning of a looming famine amid the Israel-Hamas war, even as the U.S. and other countries airdrop food and work to deliver badly needed aid.
