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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
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
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
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
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Irwin Rosenberg
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
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SAM MEDNICK
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
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AP
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
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
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AP
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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