The indestructible myth of famine in Gaza

Caught between bombs and famine, Gazans lose hope of survival

“I was sleeping when an intense airstrike hit just a few metres from our house,” 21-year-old Dana Raid from the Al-Shejaiya neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City, tells The New Arab.  "I woke up shaking, trying to understand what was happening. My cousin’s voice came through the dust, urging us to leave immediately,” Dana, who was forced to flee her partially destroyed home, adds.  Like many areas across the Strip, the Israeli military had issued e…

The indestructible myth of famine in Gaza

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MELANIE PHILLIPS: The indestructible myth of famine in Gaza

Yet again, the myth has been revived that there is a famine in the Gaza Strip. This claim, which has done so much to incite attacks on Jews, has been promulgated repeatedly by mainstream Western media during the past 18 months of war. It is a lie that distorts yet another lie. Time and again, U.N. agencies and NGOs have warned that famine and starvation are imminent. But this has never happened. More food has been admitted to Gaza than people ne…