Someday this War's gonna End

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“Economic life in Gaza has been decimated by sheer physical destruction, blockade and siege, and repeated forced displacement,” the experts, including a special rapporteur and three UN-backed independent experts, said in a statement. They said that in the starved and besieged enclave, most commercial, agricultural and industrial assets have been damaged or destroyed, while unemployment has surged to over 80 percent, gross domestic product (GDP) has dramatically shrunk, and trade has stalled.

“Poverty is endemic. Famine has been declared,” wrote the experts, in reference to the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report last month that officially declared famine in parts of Gaza. They pointed out that there is a liquidity crisis in Gaza as most banks and ATMs have been destroyed, Israel has blocked the inflow of new currency, and wages are paling in comparison to stratospheric inflation caused by a total siege.

The four experts noted that the occupied West Bank is also under increasing financial strain as Israel has arbitrarily diverted or withheld tax revenues owed to the Palestinian Authority in violation of the Oslo Accords. Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wants to cancel annual waivers that allow Israeli banks to process transactions with Palestinian banks, something the experts said “would cut Palestinians off from the global financial system”.

“These measures exacerbate heavy economic losses from the illegal taking of land and the illegal exploitation of natural resources by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank,” the experts said. They emphasised that Israel is violating its human rights obligations and its legal requirements as an occupying power, and is impeding the collective rights of the Palestinian people to economic self-determination and control over natural wealth and resources.

Allahu Akhbar@Al Jazeera

 

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“Poverty is endemic. Famine has been declared,” wrote the experts, in reference to the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report last month that officially declared famine in parts of Gaza. They pointed out that there is a liquidity crisis in Gaza as most banks and ATMs have been destroyed, Israel has blocked the inflow of new currency, and wages are paling in comparison to stratospheric inflation caused by a total siege.

I did read that the UN had re-defined the requirements to declare a full scale famine. Under the old requirements 22,000 deaths by starvation would have been required to declare a full scale famine, the changes (by the UN) have allowed the UN to declare a famine based on approximately 30 deaths.
This was according to Hillel Neuer.

 

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I did read that the UN had re-defined the requirements to declare a full scale famine. Under the old requirements 22,000 deaths by starvation would have been required to declare a full scale famine, the changes (by the UN) have allowed the UN to declare a famine based on approximately 30 deaths.
This was according to Hillel Neuer.

Fillyfacts™ unfortunately.

 

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MSN

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer says the IPC, which declared famine in Gaza, was a “fabricated report”.

 

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MSN

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer says the IPC, which declared famine in Gaza, was a “fabricated report”.

Yes, he's wrong.

AI overview

The figure of 22,000 deaths is most likely an approximate death toll from the Dutch famine of 1944–1945. It is important to remember that:

• This was a total death count over the course of the famine, not a minimum threshold required to declare it.
• There were no universal standards for declaring famine during the mid-20th century. The IPC system was developed much later, in 2004, to standardize the process for humanitarian aid.
• Historical famines are often analyzed in retrospect based on total estimated deaths, whereas the IPC system is designed for real-time assessment and intervention to prevent further loss of life.

If you want to show the actual rules before the change and after, then that would be a start.

 

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Hillel Neuer's Linked In page describes him as "fighting dictatorships, defending human rights" which sounds ass-backwards considering his opposition to Palestinian rights and defence of the Zionist disctatorship.

 

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ICYMI: WATCH: UN watchdog altered key metric, lowering bar to declare Gaza famine

The United Nations–affiliated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) recently declared a “worst-case scenario of famine” in Gaza but quietly adjusted one of its core measurement standards in the process—making it easier to issue such a designation, The Washington Free Beacon...

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The United Nations–affiliated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) recently declared a “worst-case scenario of famine” in Gaza but quietly adjusted one of its core measurement standards in the process—making it easier to issue such a designation, The Washington Free Beacon reported on Tuesday.

In its July 29 assessment, the IPC, a coalition of Western governments, U.N. agencies, and humanitarian groups, reported that “mounting evidence shows that widespread starvation, malnutrition and disease are driving a rise in hunger-related deaths” in the Hamas-controlled territory.
The New York Times, NPR, CNN, and ABC News cited the report to link Israeli aid restrictions to mass starvation.
Unlike past evaluations, the IPC’s latest report introduced a new malnutrition measure—the mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC)—which it has not traditionally used for famine determinations, the Free Beacon discovered.

The IPC also halved the percentage threshold of children suffering malnutrition that is necessary to establish a famine determination to 15%. Historically, famine has been declared when 30% of children suffer acute malnutrition, measured by weight and height calculations, a more labor-intensive and precise method than MUAC, which involves a simple arm measurement.

The revised criteria appeared only in a small note with an asterisk beneath a chart titled “When is Famine Classified?” and were not mentioned in the IPC’s official “Famine Fact Sheet.”
The organization’s technical manual lists MUAC as a supplementary data point—not a primary basis for famine classification. The manual underscores that the IPC can only provide a “famine classification” once it has “reliable data” using weight and height measurements, or one other metric that is not MUAC.
The change has raised concerns among veteran aid workers. “It’s a pretty big shift in standards,” one of them told the Free Beacon. “Lowering the bar makes it easier for a famine determination to be made.” Another noted that past famine declarations in Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan relied on the higher 30% weight-for-height benchmark.

In Gaza, the IPC’s MUAC-based findings show acute malnutrition is under 8% for children in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis, and 16.5% in Gaza City—just above the new 15% threshold but far below the previous 30% standard.

The July report also cited “over 20,000 children” treated for acute malnutrition between April and mid-July, including more than 3,000 severely malnourished, and at least 16 recent hunger-related child deaths. However, these figures were drawn from “internal documents” that are not publicly available.
Much of the IPC’s data comes from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry and affiliated organizations, including Ard el Insan, an aid group, which has faced allegations of ties to the militant group, the Free Beacon noted.
The IPC did not respond to the Free Beacon’s questions regarding its altered methodology or the reliability of its sources.

 

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That's a bad stutter you've got there, lol...

 

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'Newsrael' is a Zionist foghorn spreading Netanyahu's lies and disinformation far and wide.

That is all.

 

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'Newsrael' is a Zionist foghorn spreading Netanyahu's lies and disinformation far and wide.

That is all.

He complains that everyone in the UN, thousands of them, are documented terrorism supporters, then posts that. Wat a plonker...