My Dear Friends:
Democracy Now, August 22, 2025: U.N. Declares a Famine in Gaza, Where Over 500,000 Face “Starvation, Destitution and Death”
The U.N.’s top humanitarian official, Tom Fletcher, spoke from Geneva earlier today:
It is a famine in 2025, a 21st-century famine, watched over by drones and the most advanced military technology in history. It is a famine openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war. It is a famine on all of our watch. Everyone owns this. The Gaza famine is the world’s famine.
smoky twilight ...
will starving babies in Gaza
heal the broken heart
of an Israeli mother
whose children were kidnapped
in memory of the philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt, author of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
word after word
squeezed out of the PM's mouth
in broad daylight
this daily "banality"
of dying, of death in Gaza
"Israel's oldest daily, Haaretz," which was was sanctioned by the Israeli government on Nov. 24, 2024
August 21, 2025: "Starvation Is Everywhere," Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose the Scale of the Horror
a dull-eyed baby
with loose skin over bone ...
red glow of Gazan skies
Reprinted in Haikuniverse, July 26, 2025
thousands of Gazans
pressed against one another ....
in the dusty air
one man cries, do I have to pay
with my life for a sack of flour?
her gaunt face
swollen and covered in burns ...
this one-legged girl
the luckiest one while others are
buried under the smoky rubble
And August 22, 2025: Starvation, Destitution and Death' | In First, UN Says Over Half a Million Gazans Suffering From Famine; Netanyahu: 'Outright Lie'
For the first time since the war in Gaza started, the UN food security agency's report found that residents of Gaza City and nearby areas are suffering from the highest level of hunger. Netanyahu rejected the report as a 'modern blood libel' and accused Hamas of 'stealing aid' and staging a 'starvation campaign'
To conclude today's "Special Feature" post, I would like to share the following latest entry of Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXIX: "UN-declared Gaza famine"
a burnt-out house
half in ruins yet with a roof ...
under it
a patched tent and children
with thin arms and bloated bellies
FYI: The latest news about Israel's genocidal war against Palestinians:
Haaretz, August 22, 2025: Israel's Foreign Ministry Says West Bank Is Israeli Territory, Contravening International and Domestic Law
On Thursday, 25 countries – including the United Kingdom and France –issued a joint declaration against Israel's decision to approve construction in the E1 area, a plan designed to bisect the West Bank, calling the plan a "flagrant breach of international law" that would undermine the idea of a two-state solution.
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