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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 584

famine

Displaced Palestinians purchase ground lentils as a substitute for making bread due to a shortage of flour in the Gaza Strip, in Khan Younis, May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Karem Hanna)
May 12, 2025, 5:04 pm
Gaza at risk of famine if Israel doesn’t lift ban on aid — food security group
International authority, which made incorrect assessment last year, says nearly half a million Palestinians face starvation, with communal kitchens virtually the only food provider
By AP and ToI Staff
Attorney-General Gali Baharav Miara (center) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court President Uzi Vogelman, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 1, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)
March 6, 2025, 2:14 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 6: Day 517 – Who will be on the squad that fires the attorney general?
Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon on the almost unprecedented steps taken to remove a legal thorn in the side of the coalition as it attempts to rebalance the scales of the justice system
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jeremy Sharon
Palestinians line up for food in Deir Balah, Gaza, on December 25, 2024. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)
December 25, 2024, 10:20 pm
US-backed monitor takes down report alleging north Gaza famine after envoy’s critique
Washington says Famine Early Warning System Network inflated estimated civilians in the area by 5 to 10 times; US ambassador to Israel called report ‘irresponsible’
By Jacob Magid
Demonstrators dressed as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, take part in a performance during a protest against the government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas terrorist group, in Tel Aviv, December 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
December 25, 2024, 2:34 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 25: Day 446 – Qatari mediators ask Israel to be more flexible
US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses latest in hostage negotiations, comments made by Trump national security pick Mike Waltz, and parting shot from US Ambassador Jack Lew
By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid
Palestinians collect aid food at Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on November 6, 2024 (Eyad BABA / AFP)
November 10, 2024, 2:41 pm
Israel said to believe US prepared to go ‘all the way’ with threats over Gaza aid crisis
Ahead of Wednesday deadline for increase of aid to enclave, US defense chief Austin reportedly gives ‘sharp’ message to new counterpart Katz that arms supply could be jeopardized
By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Aron Troen (Louis Weil)
August 23, 2024, 9:05 am
What Matters Now to Dr. Aron Troen: Dispelling claims of intentional famine in Gaza
Nutrition Science & Public Health prof dives into methodology for study showing food supply to war-torn Strip is sufficient, delves into life after his sister’s murder on Oct. 7
By ToI Staff
A boy pushes a wheelchair carrying water containers past the rubble of destroyed buildings along a street in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 8, 2024. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
July 9, 2024, 9:50 pm
Israel rejects accusations by UN rights experts that it weaponized starvation in Gaza
Jerusalem rebuts claims, pointing to its facilitation of large amounts of aid and various predictions of famine by independent studies being proven untrue
By AFP and ToI Staff
Men collect food aid ahead of the upcoming Eid al-Adha holiday in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
July 2, 2024, 5:09 pm
New Gaza famine report reveals grim March predictions were vastly exaggerated
Study appears to emphasize outlying malnutrition results, does not disclose mortality data, leading some experts to question the basis of its new projections
By Jeremy Sharon
An Israeli soldier and ultra-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall on June 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 26, 2024, 2:02 pm
Daily Briefing June 26: Day 264 – Landmark decision to draft Haredim, starting July 1
Legal correspondent Jeremy Sharon discusses Haredi draft ruling, famine or not in Gaza, as environmental reporter Sue Surkes looks at energy grid concerns over war with Hezbollah
By ToI Staff
Volunteers prepare food for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 19, 2024. (AFP)
June 25, 2024, 7:38 pm
Key food security org finds no famine in Gaza, says previous assumptions wrong
UN-linked IPC finds no mortality data to prove famine is present, but states a ‘high risk of famine’ remains, describing food insecurity situation in Gaza as ‘catastrophic’
By Jeremy Sharon
Volunteers prepare food for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 19, 2024. (AFP)
May 31, 2024, 12:33 am
Key Gaza famine report cited by UN, ICJ has systematic flaws, Israeli review finds
Health Ministry says grave methodological flaws in Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report, cited as proof Israel starving Gazans, renders its conclusions unreliable
By Jeremy Sharon
Kate Forbes, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt, February 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
May 29, 2024, 12:40 pm
Red Cross president urges humanitarian ceasefire ‘so I can do my job’
Kate Forbes, who leads the largest humanitarian network in the world, reports ‘atrocious’ situation in Rafah, pleads with ‘governments on all sides to negotiate a ceasefire’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Armed and masked Palestinians seen on trucks loaded with international humanitarian aid entering Gaza via the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing, southern Gaza Strip, April 3, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90
May 24, 2024, 9:23 am
New study finds food supply to Gaza more than sufficient for population’s needs
Food delivered through crossings ‘provided for a mean of 3,163 calories per person per day’ for Gazans, 40% higher than the accepted humanitarian standard for daily calorie intake
By Jeremy Sharon
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, April 17, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
April 19, 2024, 7:47 pm
‘We’re not like the Nazis’: Netanyahu said to chide German FM on Gaza ‘famine’ remark
Heated exchange reportedly occurs after Annalena Baerbock charges Israel pushing Gaza toward starvation; Germany complains about ‘distorted’ leaks
By ToI Staff
This handout picture released by the Jordanian army on March 31, 2024, shows humanitarian aid being airdropped from a military aircraft over the northern Gaza Strip. (Photo by Jordanian army / AFP)
April 1, 2024, 1:44 pm
Daily Briefing Apr. 1: Day 178 – Why Israel contests UN’s Gaza famine claims
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman weighs in on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s press conference, hostage talks, two UN-backed reports and where not to fly on spring break
By ToI Staff
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