{"id":42827,"date":"2025-07-23T13:26:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=42827"},"modified":"2025-07-23T13:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:26:57","slug":"famine-expert-israels-starvation-of-gaza-most-minutely-designed-and-controlled-since-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/famine-expert-israels-starvation-of-gaza-most-minutely-designed-and-controlled-since-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"Famine Expert: Israel’s Starvation of Gaza Most ‘Minutely Designed and Controlled’ Since WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, a 1-year-old Palestinian boy from Gaza City, faces life-threatening malnutrition as the humanitarian situation worsens due to ongoing Israeli attacks and blockade, on July 21, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0(Photo: Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is preventable starvation,” said Alex de Waal. “It is entirely man-made.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BRETT WILKINS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jul 22, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A leading global authority on famine on Monday accused Israel<\/a> of orchestrating a carefully planned campaign of mass starvation in the Gaza<\/a> Strip, remarks that came amid a steadily rising death toll from malnutrition caused by the 654-day U.S.-backed Israeli siege and obliteration of the Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’ve been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled,” Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, told Al Jazeera<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is preventable starvation. It is entirely man-made,” de Waal added. “And every stage of this has been predicted, and at every stage action could have been taken\u2014by Israel, by the international authorities, [the] international community, those who back Israel\u2014to prevent what is happening now… Those steps have simply not been taken.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alex de Waal is one of the world's foremost experts on famine. Listen to every word he says about Israel's forced starvation of the people of Gaza:

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" pic.twitter.com\/MylTCW31xj<\/a><\/p>— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) July 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>