With each passing day, the alarm sirens about famine in Gaza are screaming louder than ever, but the mainstream U.S. media continues to hide or downplay Israel’s responsibility for the mass starvation.
Just the other day, one of the world’s leading experts on mass hunger, Alex de Waal, said, in the Guardian: “We are about to witness in Gaza the most intense famine since the second world war.” de Waal is no ordinary commenter. He has spent decades researching and writing about famine in various parts of Africa, including Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia, and he is known for being rigorous and cautious.
The sub-head on his article was also ominous: Gaza’s health crisis has its own dreadful momentum. Even if the shooting ends today and the aid trucks begin to roll, the dying will carry on for some time.”….more