Biden Administration Acknowledges Famine in Gaza

Biden Administration Acknowledges Famine in Gaza

David Satterfield, the U.S. humanitarian envoy in the Middle East, told the American Jewish Committee yesterday that a famine is taking place in Gaza. "There is an imminent risk of starvation for the majority, if not all, the 2.2 million population of Gaza," he said. "This is not a point in debate. It is an established fact, which the United States, its experts, the international community, its experts, assess and believe is real."

Samantha Power, administrator of USAID, similarly confirmed this reality while testifying before Congress yesterday, after being pressed by Rep. Julián Castro (D-Texas). “Food must flow, and food has not flowed in sufficient quantities to avoid this imminent famine in the south and these conditions that are giving rise already to child deaths in the north,” she emphasized.

Below is our latest reporting on the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the U.S. failure to hold Israel accountable.

History Will Record That Israel Committed a Holocaust

Susan Abulhawa reflects on her recent trip to Israel: "I thought I understood the situation on the ground. But I didn’t. Nothing can truly prepare you for this dystopia. What reaches the rest of the world is a fraction of what I’ve seen so far, which is only a fraction of this horror’s totality. Gaza is hell. It is an inferno teeming with innocents gasping for air."

Israel’s Achievements in Gaza: Making Gaza Unliveable

Ida Audeh outlines the scale of Israel's genocide in Gaza:

- More than 500 mosques and churches, over 300 universities and schools, more than 360,000 civilian housing units, more than 31 hospitals and dozens of vital civil centers.

- More than 200 cultural, heritage and archaeological sites, some of which are centuries and decades older than the occupation itself, including some dating back to 1,400 and 800 years ago.

- Thirty-one hospitals out of 35 have been put out of service.

- One million square meters of streets and roads have been destroyed.

- 55,000 trees have been uprooted.

- 40 wells, constituting 60 percent of the wells in Gaza City, have been destroyed.

- Sanitation and water treatment systems are inoperable.

How Biden Uses Loopholes, Courts and Congress to Arm Israel’s Genocide

"Over the past five months, the Biden administration has exploited caveats in the Conventional Arms Transfer Policy, Foreign Assistance Act, Leahy Law and Arms Export Control Act to enable that Israeli soldiers use U.S. weapons to commit genocide," Jack McGrath explains.

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