UN experts who first warned Israel was coordinating a deliberate, massive hunger campaign in Gaza more than 500 days ago said they could not argue that governments and businesses would not be surprised by the fears they are currently unfolding.
“Israel has built the most efficient hunger machine you can imagine. So it’s always shocking to see people starving, but no one should be surprised. All the information has been published since early 2024,” Michael Fakri said.
“Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide. It’s a crime against humanity. It’s a war crime. I’ve been doing it over and over again, I feel like Cassandra,” Fakri said.
October 9, 2023 – Two days after the start of the war in Gaza – Israel’s then-Defence Minister Joab Gallant declared a “full siege” of Gaza and said it would halt the supply of electricity, food, water and fuel. By December 2023, UN and international aid agencies figures show that Gazan accounted for 80% of the world’s people experiencing catastrophic hunger.
Currently, widespread hunger, malnutrition and disease are driving a rapid rise in hunger-related deaths across Gaza, according to the integrated food security stage classification (IPC), according to a global initiative that provides real-time data on hunger fame for the United Nations and aid groups, according to the global initiative that provides real-time data on hunger fame for hunger fame, according to the integrated food security stage classification (IPC).
The IPC warned earlier this week that “the worst-case scenario of hunger is currently unfolding” across the Gaza Strip.
Fafri was the first to warn of impending hunger, and warned of the need for urgent action to stop Israel from starving 2 million people in Gaza.
In an interview with the Guardian published on February 28, 2024, Fakri said: “We have never seen civilians made to get hungry very quickly, among hungry experts. Israel is clearly a war crime.