{"id":32340,"date":"2024-03-16T12:56:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T19:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=32340"},"modified":"2024-03-16T12:56:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T19:56:48","slug":"gaza-on-the-brink-of-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/gaza-on-the-brink-of-famine\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza on the Brink of Famine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Alan Taylor\/The Atlantic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rsn.org\/images\/001\/055850-gaza-031424.jpg\" alt=\"Gaza on the Brink of Famine\"><strong>Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies. (photo: Mohammed Salem\/Reuters)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>15 march 24<\/strong> (RSN.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Nations is warning that famine in Gaza is \u201calmost inevitable.\u201d Palestinians living in Gaza are struggling with extreme shortages of food, clean water, and medicine. Several countries, including Jordan, France, Egypt, the U.S., the United Arab Emirates, and now Germany, are coordinating airdrops of humanitarian aid to help alleviate the crisis, and the U.S. military is working to a build a temporary port on Gaza\u2019s coastline to bring in additional aid. Critics have pointed out that airdrops and a temporary pier are insufficient, dangerous, and haphazard operations compared with ensuring a steady and reliable supply of aid delivered by trucks, which might be achieved by a cease-fire agreement. Gathered below are recent images from the growing crisis in the Gaza Strip.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rsn.org\/images\/body_imgs\/2403152.png\" width=\"600\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parachutes carry humanitarian-aid packages to the ground after being dropped from a plane, as Palestinians wait to receive them in Gaza City on March 9, 2024.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rsn.org\/images\/body_imgs\/2403153.png\" width=\"600\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A view of makeshift tents set up by Palestinians that migrated to the south of the Gaza Strip in search of safety, in Rafah, on February 24, 2024.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rsn.org\/images\/body_imgs\/2403154.png\" width=\"600\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palestinian children collect wood, paper and cardboard to use as fuel, scavenging through the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli attacks, in Gaza City, on March 5, 2024.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rsn.org\/images\/body_imgs\/2403155.png\" width=\"600\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palestinian children who have taken refuge in Rafah due to Israeli attacks carry food distributed by charitable organizations, in Rafah, Gaza, on February 19, 2024.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rsn.org\/images\/body_imgs\/24031510.png\" width=\"600\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children wait for hours in distribution lines to gather enough water and food for their families, in Rafah, on February 25, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Taylor\/The Atlantic Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies. (photo: Mohammed Salem\/Reuters) 15 march 24 (RSN.org) The United Nations is warning that famine in Gaza is \u201calmost inevitable.\u201d Palestinians living in Gaza are struggling with extreme shortages of food, clean&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/03\/16\/gaza-on-the-brink-of-famine\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32341,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340\/revisions\/32341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}