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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 624

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Activists protest the war in Gaza, in Jerusalem, April 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 22, 2025, 2:09 am
Some pro-Israel advocates are now using words like ‘genocide’ to describe the Gaza war
Having backed Israel’s military action after Hamas’s October 7 atrocities, a growing number of Jews see the recent aid blockade, high death toll, and threats of annexation as a red line
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
An undated picture of laying hens in a cage. (Animals Now)
August 4, 2024, 4:15 pm
Regulations enter into effect to ban starvation of hens to increase egg production
Denying hens food for eight to 12 days speeds up annual molting during which fewer eggs are laid and profits fall; animal welfare group: ‘Cruel practice’ crossed all lines
By Sue Surkes
Germany created the Warsaw ghetto to imprison and starve more than 400,000 Jews during World War II. (Public domain)
May 31, 2023, 4:56 am
Jewish doctors’ secret study of Warsaw ghetto starvation rediscovered 80 years later
Tufts professor sheds light on smuggled medical research conducted by imprisoned Jewish physicians on what they label ‘hunger disease’; 100 patients enrolled in the study
By Matt Lebovic
A child dying in the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto (photo by Heinz Joest, a Wehrmacht sergeant, Wikimedia Commons)
July 20, 2022, 9:42 am
How defiant Jewish doctors in Warsaw Ghetto detailed effects of Nazi starvation
Recently rediscovered book titled ‘Maladie de Famine’ records grim results of an almost complete lack of food imposed by the Germans in 1942
By Merry Fitzpatrick and Irwin Rosenberg
One-month old Haboue Solange Boue, awaiting medical care for severe malnutrition, is held by her mother, Danssanin Lanizou, 30, at the feeding center of the main hospital in the town of Hounde, Tuy Province, in southwestern Burkina Faso on Thursday, June 11, 2020. With the markets closed because of coronavirus restrictions, her family sold fewer vegetables. Lanizou is too malnourished to nurse her. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
July 28, 2020, 4:24 am
Virus-linked hunger tied to 10,000 global child deaths each month
Coronavirus and its restrictions are pushing already hungry communities over the edge, cutting off meager farms from markets and isolating villages from food and medical aid
By Lori Hinnant and SAM MEDNICK
In this March 8, 2017 file photo, the carcass of a dead goat lies in the desert in a drought-stricken area near Bandar Beyla in Somalia. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
June 5, 2019, 7:38 pm
UN: 2 million Somalis could die of famine this year
$700 million needed after rainless season that has killed livestock and crops, as climate change raises frequency of droughts
By AP
In this Oct. 1, 2018, file, photo, a severely malnourished boy rests on a hospital bed at the Aslam Health Center, Hajjah, Yemen (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
December 31, 2018, 2:48 pm
Fighters siphon off food as Yemenis starve
AP investigation finds families in Taiz are not getting international aid — often because it has been seized by armed units allied with the Saudi-led, US-backed military coalition
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
In this January 24, 2016 photo, a malnourished child lies in a bed waiting to receive treatment at a therapeutic feeding center in a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
November 16, 2017, 11:51 pm
Save the Children says 130 children die every day in Yemen
Some 150,000 malnourished kids could die in coming months if Saudi Arabia doesn’t lift blockade against Houthi rebels, UN says
By AP
A Syrian man suffering from severe legs injuries following shelling in the rebel held areas around Damascus is surrounded by his children, one of them with only one leg, at their house in the Eastern Ghouta town of Hamouria, on October 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Abdulmonam Eassa)
October 24, 2017, 7:06 pm
Syrians have hot water for dinner in hunger-hit besieged town
Red Cross says food scarcity ‘getting worse’ in rebel-held district outside Damascus blockaded by Syrian regime
By Abdulmonam Eassa and Amer Almohibany
Avidan Freedman
July 6, 2017, 1:24 pm
Avidan Freedman
Six million plus one
Israel makes money off the suffering of millions by supporting South Sudan’s terror, and only one person is protesting
Painting of Chaim Rumkowski, chairman of the Lodz Ghetto's Jewish Council, created by Lodz painter Izrael Lejzerowicz during the ghetto's four-year existence (Public domain)
March 28, 2017, 8:48 pm
‘King Chaim,’ ruler of the Lodz Ghetto, exposed in Boston exhibit
As Henryk Ross’s haunting photographs premiere in the US, a snapshot of the Lodz ghetto council’s infamous chairman Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski — who thought himself a Jewish ‘savior’
By Matt Lebovic
Eva Deutsch Costabel, a client of the Blue Card, is an accomplished painter and children's book author (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
May 3, 2016, 10:28 pm
For many Holocaust survivors, effects of wartime starvation still a plague
Seven decades after the Shoah, the after-effects of food deprivation are causing unhealthy habits and poor nutrition — even in a city of plenty like New York
By Luke Tress
Young Syrian refugees stand at the Azraq refugee camp in northern Jordan on January 30, 2016. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
January 31, 2016, 1:16 am
Syria peace talks in peril as more Syrians starve
Opposition threatens to leave negotiations as over a dozen towns remain under siege by regime forces
By Maya Gebeily and Cecile Feuillatre
A convoy of trucks loaded with humanitarian supplies are seen heading to the besieged town of Madaya, some 24 kilometers in southwest Damascus, Syria, on Thursday, January 14, 2016 (AP Photo)
January 16, 2016, 6:08 pm
UN agency: Starving Syrian teen died ‘in front of our eyes’
Aid workers warn of ‘horrific’ scenes in town of Madaya, under siege for months by government forces
By Zeina Karam
Syrians wait for the arrival of an aid convoy on January 11, 2016, in the besieged town of Madaya as part of a landmark six-month deal reached in September 2015 for an end to hostilities in those areas in exchange for humanitarian assistance. (AFP/Stringer)
January 12, 2016, 1:00 pm
UN says aid to besieged Syrian towns must continue
Humanitarian chief says convoys to besieged towns must not be ‘one-off or exceptional’; Damascus denies starvation reports
By Edith M. Lederer
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