to put in your comments, you cannot make crisis, it's a live consumed by this struggle to meet the cost of simply living image to price hikes and forced evictions. and unlikely candidate can spend images for ms. quad for tom and to become the face of a groceries movement, giving hope to his community. springs housing stack. a witness documentary on al jazeera. the risk of famine is growing game does. more than half a 1000000 people are facing catastrophic food and security because of as well as war i'm siege, that's the stop warning from the food program of the un agencies. so is israel using food deprivation as a war tactics? this is inside story, the

hello welcome to the program. i'm adrian instead of going surviving it a wall that has killed more than 25000 people and injured 63000 in guns. that is not just a matter of avoiding israel's bones, bullets and brutality. survival for $2300000.00 palestinians on the siege and under attack. also means finding enough food to eat. a crisis of unprecedented scale is looming, according to the un, with everyone in guns at risk of food and security in the next few weeks. a mass of cooled for the area to be to glad assignments own well as well claims. there is enough food. so what's really happening and what needs to be done to ease the crisis. we'll be discussing all of this and more with our guest and just a moment, but 1st not a problem with separate has this report on why many people in casa a hungry, a desperate cry for help, for the most basic of human needs. when palestinians i'm looking for shelter from

east really drones and rockets, they are searching the essentials for survival, food, and clean water within 2000000 people in gaza. and that is really a take and seat facing what the united nations is cooling, catastrophic hunger. there's nothing wrong i'm, i'm not in my job. i regret to say we're not on the verge of the salmon. the real salmon rice is almost also some duck, is the 2nd most basic food item to flour. if we run lots of rice will be consumed, assemble, and this is the hush we had a ton of agencies trying to deliver 8 across guys, a se. israel's unrelenting bombardment hinders them from doing so, and nearly 3 quarters of a request to into our rejected israel. such as old deliveries it permits into the territory. this causes major denise, well some 8 doesn't get through at all. and they want to go voice that on the 11th and the 15th of january, the cutting 200 tons of wood 415000 people. 15000 people,

that's really a very, very small numbers. and this is why we're seeing people become a lot better for i think in patient to wait for distribution. because because that is part of it. they don't get to fit funds in. and they have not of confidence that these, that these come voice was comedy. israel says it is allowing 8 and there's enough food and accuses agencies of lying and creating falls narrative to allegations of deliberate. it says to stuff, palestinians, and guys over time is that the core of south africa's genocide lawsuit that is being considered in the international court of justice in the heat. more than 25000 palestinians have been killed in the school. gaza has been under siege and is rarely a tech for nearly 2 decades. the world bank and both health organizations that before the war, nutritional deficiencies and associates of health problems with wide straight into

strip with pregnant women and infants, particularly effective. the war has listened to the situation with food and all fall, most skiffs and expenses of the prices are unimaginable. one kilo of this bad quality, wheat flour, is 1012 shekels that's up from 3 in the past. for a much better quality. half of this flour is on usable. imagine that even before the war and when people had salaries, the situation was already untenable. people were suffering right now. it's many, many, many times before. the war has brought to misery for people in gaza. those have survived, as well as a text, so fall face a daily battle to find food for themselves and the families. my husband wants a bit of a 0 for inside story, a will for those suffering from hunger in cause a legal definitions. i know exactly what they will be thinking about right now, but what actually defines assignment? well, according to the integrated fluid security phase classification of food security,

nutrition and mortality. a role consider the threshold has reached what at least 20 percent of households in an area facing extreme food shortages with limited ability to change the circumstances about one out of 3 children in the population of acutely malnourished. and when there's at least 2 people dying per day for every $10000.00 inhabitants due to salvation malnutrition and disease. optical age of the rooms, statues of the international criminal court states, but intentionally using the salvation of civilians as a method of wolf. by impeding relief supplies is a little crime. so let's bring it down. guests from sullivan will massachusetts, in the us, were joined by alex deval, who is the author of mass starvation, and authoritative history of martin simons. he's analyzed food deprivation as a crime. and research forced to starvation as an instrument of genocide and war

from also were joined by mad skill. that's a doctor of emergency medicine with low experience of working in gauze health sector, including during previous is really bump apartments from best i have in the occupied westbank. we're joined by we have jaffar if there's the communication and advocacy coordinator for action aid, palestine level, and welcome to you all alex, let's start with you. what does the word from it actually made in practical terms and can it be applied to what we're seeing right now in gaza? you just gave the the correct definition as it developed by international humanitarian agencies over the last 20 years. and under the definition of cause that is on the brink of farm, and in fact, you may already be descending in, in, in, into, from, in conditions and, and certainly it's a pies here on, on muslims time. and so essentially that so political, military decision,

either deliberate or rec, plus reckless meaning that the, those in charge know that they are producing a mess, hunger, and starvation and dest, through hunger and disease, and continue on regardless, even if it is not the stated policy to cause death through starvation, the functions of by not already triggered by this fact to not by natural calamity. alex would have to expiration of famine in gaza, actually change anything on the ground. declaration of thumb and dusting, have legal effect. it is really just an alarm signal to the international community that something needs urgently to be done. and of course, even a one step show to apartment and such as we are now. the conditions are absolutely unacceptable. people a whole ready dying on mass from, from hunger and disease,

the threshold. this is quite an arbitrary one. let's, let's talk about mount nutrition. and what happens to an adult at a child when they don't get sufficient food, or at least food with the ripe nutrients? well, it weakens the bodies, assistance, the power over the seats thing. but tara and virus, and the lights are cheap at large. we know from studies that the, the kind of chronic model nutrition that we see in garza and i, i want to make a point that this situation we have now is on ac situation of a situation that we've had during the 16 years of seats. there are a number of studies showing a chronic, low grades, protein mountain nutrition, as a result of the seats of gossip affecting children. but what do you see in the body is that you will have a weaker immune system. and then you wouldn't be more vulnerable to infection,

slight infections with the color. smallpox, acute a spit or infections, which we see actually in the southern gospel. in the smallest of the children. we have seen of search in r, s, the virus infection. you will have the chronic asthma and you will have a need. the one important point is that the pregnant woman who experience estimation or finding we'll have a child that is in the uterus, is model of attrition with a protein. and that will have 9 strong consequences for cardiovascular disease or diabetes for um, um i ordered 2 problems. and in addition to this, of course, you have the problems with a combination and with the mental development, the children who are exposed to link mountain nutrition up to all of these on a battery. so you see the medical consequences that i wanted to ask you mads off to

a period of, of severe hunger. when a person does begin to get the right kind of food and nutrition. again, i can the effects that you've just described be, be reversed. i mean, in, in children, you know, as you say, particularly with, with, with unborn children that the effects can be lifelong. of. what about adults? well, the studies that we know so far from other countries, also during your time and times of the few natural disasters that have quotes from in we see it seems that the, the problems you have while i'm being in pregnancy or the trade or suppose they are lifelong to the extent that the children we will have more kind of you lester problems then people and children who were not exposed to farming during their pregnancy for the adults. it is of course, a matter of how complex your health problem has been. and don't forget that from an order or lack of food in gaza is won't be only one aspect of this mind made

disaster. in addition, you have the complexity of the trauma, all the attacks and you have the injuries, and we hear from work, police and go. so that's a 100 percent. all the points are infected because i would like to border and probably also because because of the, my, an interesting situation. so this is a very, very complex and very dangerous situation for the people in ga. so i need to remind make cabinet a burst in the 2nd 300. give us an idea of, of, of what daily life is like. a family's trying to survive in gaza right now. we know that causes fresh water and sanitation substance and not functioning but, but how, how do people go about finding food to feed the kids? so the situation is confessed or big. it is more than that, that's a big and so many is a spending and got the interest in buying the bottles of the us.

and the situation is of is all quantity golf courses. i'd like to think of this isn't and call and then combine limited in the didn't work together. so that is in gather, loves, have saltisha with to feed themselves a, get the cost of the bins on a fishing and come to the product. or did you want to inform the systemic bob, dean and components for the system by the door? so they do not have access to base, must have access to go inside of the products if you do the actual body 22. but it says that the got so a lot of detroit is 17 volt distribution. but what's, what's drawing as this? so the big one depends on that when he did in it. and then he went to stay in,

in the weight is more than one. this would really just call the go, but the immune leaves of the big one. so and the bins and it drives rice and the dry bus stop for the daily board. because also we have to take into consideration that there is no way to get to the board meeting board or board meeting the grid. so also the board meeting board as big it is with the vehicle. in addition, we will often a severe shortage. oh, and i'm in the ration. so they the us to me there what they don't have a no, it'd be one of the steps we do that people in order to get you,

the eagles and the mass for the green thing gets low. i the for the week, okay. re him israel and says so that is enough food and for so for people in cars, i'll come back to you just about a match is what is blaming the you and, and how may i ask for the slow distribution of a is there any merits a tool in that argument does the you and have enough stuff, has it deployed enough trucks and the delivery of all the humanitarian in human infinity? and if the doctor is being beaten is used to the continuous palm beach in june to the 4th and 5th to war. i'm also documentation of black off in gas in v, in special or donation to bruce, between the organization and the structure of the o. m b. the look i'm deliberately added to

the all these conditions they make, the human interior is made. the items are possible to it's so many miles in gas, so add to that they need to amount the through the i'm going through that in a couple sentences once i'm present borders. so it is the end of the day. yeah, that means according to the estimation of the government and the office needs nowadays more that the to the needs of residents. so before the month of october, i guess i used to receive around $500.00. is it just what was easy now? is mostly the needs of the people that i like. so i'll come back to you in another,

but not so you want to, you want to make a point that yeah, i think these allegations that, you know, it's all up to you and then on the mouse and the palestinians, and there is enough food from these really occupation army, it's a, it's another blessing fly. i mean, we, we, we have the statistics from the very punctual and accurate statistics from old shock coming every 2nd day. and that's my colleague in in the us and you know, before them this attacked, they were on average of $500.00 trucks per day. oh, then a 150, at least where trucks would food to sustain life. in garza, even with agriculture and fishing and the food basket that they could feel themselves no after it has to be an average down to a 100 trucks per day and only $7240.00 trucks with food. this is according to the last by pc, special reef on finding us out. so there is absolutely no doubt that these rope has

been blocking the entry of not only a medical release, but also for brittany. i need to set the late, but it's a deliberate plan of mental politics to advocate the people of gossip through the seas through bombing, and through the availability of medical supplies and medical services. i'm the assignment and the lack of order. this is one of the most gruesome, a concert to the tax on public health that i have ever seen. and they say so also in the i p c report. this is the worst of the scenes in modern history. so this is a modified situation aimed at diminishing hill survival among civilian the palestinians. let's call them out the name they say said waterfront, this is a weapon of mass destruction use deliberately by use rep alex what us international law say about sages and. but if the company is the cost of ation and farming and, and how does the firm in threshold have to be crossed for israel to have violates

of international law if it is violating international law with the siege. but it's more on gaza. can it be held accountable and those are all very good points. let me just preface that by endorsing something that meant to said, which is that i've been studying this topic for almost 4 years. and during that for 2 years, i have not seen or studied a situation in which a population was reduced with, with this speed to this regardless, comprehensiveness to state to stop by it is exceed unprecedented since was able to and as such, profoundly disturbing. now in terms of international law, there are, there are a number of aspects here on south africa broke the case to the international court of justice alleging genocide and the prohibition. the most relevant prohibition on

the genocide convention is and to see in the genocide convention deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in popped on the key that gives the intent, intent to destroy and hold or in part and it will take many years for b, b, i c, j to come to a decision on that. but in the meantime, they couldn't issue provisional order instructions for what israel might do. and without having to, to, to, to confirm that there is a genocidal of content. and here's the wall. crime of starvation is the relevant one. and let me read that because the, the zip codes in it, but you don't, you actually mentioned in your, in your introduction which is and so let me read it to the full intentionally using start. patients has a method of both pass by depriving them of objects indispensible to best supply

volt, including willfully impeding really surprised. so the key there is destroying objects, indispensable to survival, which is not just screwed. 6, that's based on the legal definition of starvation also includes voltage, sorry, taishan, health care, shelter, the tunnel cap of children and all of those are being destroyed. and the important thing here is not the intention is to cause death by starvation. the intention is to deprive and the community is happening deliberately. there is no question that the, the israel is, is, was strategy include space, massive destruction, of all this essential can construct. now these rainy argument is the thomas is using on civilian fields. it has, it's more, it's own more infrastructure hidden in and then civilian infrastructure of entities,

obstructing and stealing pages and so on. and some of this may be true, but a violation by one party to a conflict in no way justifies a violation by the other part of the israel is responsible no matter what. if alex israel tomorrow was suddenly to allow in all fade in to feed the people of gaza. uh, would that allow it to of to, to wriggle hours have of the accusations the that it has committed the crime of starvation. you know, it put no, because the crime has, has, has already been perpetrated at scale. and let me, i'm going to all things, if, even if it allows in a. but it continues to destroy objects indispensable to survive, that would be prohibited. and also the, the, the crisis will, i'm afraid not to stop overnight. a humanitarian crisis on this scale is like

a huge heavy freight train. and if the driver puts on the brakes immediately as, as hard as, as can be put on task many to have that train will continue, but some time so the, the, it will be a weeks, months for, for, for the combined to terry and crisis. the crisis of, of hunger, of infectious disease of black of sanitation to be overcome announcement was saying earlier that there will also be the for lifelong complaints almost of ation on, on pop on, on children. this is not a crisis that can be solved over night. and the, the, the, the, the effect of going to last for many, many years we have, we're talking about objects indispensable to survival. tell us something of the situation that women in particular face right now in gaza, of the killer,

they base them. oh, okay. so the, because this is for me on the, to the means of there is so then i'm also a, been the increase the nodes on their shoulder. and because they need to find the warranty and the fish and for the, for you went to a for making the brakes. and then also they have to wait in for, oh, all you want for getting get more for me, the brakes for the day. and then so then i'm also a pregnant woman, a go to have his children, and then they might give them a sig, so that in your to, this is what i'm all. and they also they have to make sometimes impossible choices. and sometimes they will not eat and they will

give the key and i'm the one they have to be in and some of the so the, this a got this know in that little that increases the increase has been roles and responsibilities all. and it may be in been then headed at a for the day and so and for this reason, the ceasefire, the bullying of the war to be taken and you get this female, you mean just mean it is, i'm going to score 36 by a to to, to come to somebody who might be different it's, it's because it's impacts when the state for a long time. okay, that's what can we expect to see in the coming weeks, your trust on this several times before. but, but if israel doesn't allow enough aid into garza, but what's gonna happen?

well, more people will die. avoidable best avoiding people that don't forget that there are tens of thousands of award in june in the, in addition to that, you know, people with ordinary diseases who are also affected by the timing. and don't forget that when you are in a negative protein balance coming from salvation back or food, your wounds will hear much more slowly. your bones will grow together much more slowly and you are much more likely to have the affections in your woods. all of this we seeing goal setting up. so the other actually in addition to, to making life miserable for the population by not having enough food. they are also coal, same massive medical problems in that population with tens of thousands of voted were they were complicated words with complicated factors. many of them going to set these emails and die all avoid the both infections. and i'd like to add one

more point to these effect of the lack of dietary energy. meaning, you know, if you don't have enough food, you like also be energy to leave a normal and active life and the face if there is anything needed for people in government. now it is to have the energy to subdivide the cold, the, the, the, what, the weather, the lack of housing, 60 percent of the housing for people in golf sites destroyed by bumping to have medical problems to have a split. finally, all of these, the minds and the energy just to survive the, everything with the star base and the energy is be stalled and so to make life unbelievable, miserable. ok. dangerous. all of these factors are soto collectively done by his room with the starvation, the lack of water, the lack of security, the lack of medical supplies. i agree, the only the only recipe. now it is to stop the bomb be immediately and open the gates to augusta alex. we've got about a minute left and i'm going to ask you

a complicated question. i'm sorry, but be as brief as you can, please. is israel deliberately trying to delay or the rail a declaration of funding in casa? i don't think it's that israel has at this time in declaration, on its agenda. i think israel to, from what we see is pursuing its role with a determination to inflict as much damage as it can in the short term before content, national, precious in general, begin to press it towards for strange, for all packing down. i'm afraid we are headed full scale into a totally unnecessary calamity that will go down in the panels of the history as, as one of the great crimes of the century. and that we must leave the manufacture

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