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Israel has been starving us for months. It cut off all aid to Gaza in March, only to recently approve a US-led, militarized aid site run by the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.”
The consequences are not abstract – they are visceral, immediate and devastating.
On 27 May in Rafah, thousands of hungry and desperate people surged toward the site seeking food and water. They had no option.
( Moaz Abu Taha / APA images)
Excerpt from "In Gaza you can choose only humiliation or death" by Malak Hijazi. Read the full article at https://electronicintifada.net/.../gaza-you-can.../50750
A recent study published on the Harvard Dataverse by researcher Yaakov Garb analyzes IOF military population estimates of Gaza’s population and shows that it has dropped from 2.2 million to just 1.85 million within three main Gaza “humanitarian zones” Gaza City, Al-Mawasi, and Central Gaza and compares them to Gaza’s pre-war population of approximately 2.227 million. The study finds that only about 1.85 million people are accounted for in these ‘enclaves’, leaving an estimated 377,000 Palestinians unaccounted for.
The missing 377,000 are not simply unaccounted for. They are people in northern Gaza who have endured the heaviest bombing, residents in the Rafah’s eastern district which is flattened, families in zones of total communication blackout, killed families, and families under the rubble.
Source: “Aid Distribution Compounds In Gaza” | Harvard Dataverse