Starvation is always used as a weapon to displace people from their land or weaken their relationship with their land. It is often connected to annexation, occupation and land acquisition, and that’s what’s playing out in Gaza, the West Bank and now Lebanon,
Famines are human-made and are always the result of one group starving another, therefore should always be understood as a political problem,
Framing starvation campaigns like the ones we see in Gaza and the Sudan as only a crime under the laws of war is problematic – and empirically impossible. Military supply chains are inherently connected to humanitarian supply chains which are inherently connected to civilian supply chains,
Israel has the ability to starve Lebanon – like it has starved Palestinians in Gaza,
If you use starvation in any instance, whether it’s against armed combatants or otherwise, guaranteed you will starve a civilian population en masse,
We left at 4am, we didn’t know where to go,
Life hasn’t stopped because of what [Israeli prime minister Binyamin] Netanyahu is doing or [because] they are bombing us ... Most of the people are thinking this way, that we will continue our lives until death comes, but we will not stop everything waiting for death.”
I think the most important thing for people to continue surviving is a place to stay and [have access to] food ... we are providing the food,
We have huge concerns and there are many, but one of them is indeed that we need the ports and we need the supply routes to continue to be able to operate,
We’ve gone over the past two years from assisting some 6 million people to around 1.5 (million),
What I have seen and heard today is devastating, but the sense is that this can get much worse still, and that needs to be avoided,
We will, of course, be having to restock, and for that, the ports will be critical and other supply lines,
It would certainly have been also a great message for the Palestinian refugees community. But I do believe that if we look at the impact worldwide beyond the region, the choice of eradicating the nuclear weapon is certainly a good one,
A year ago, it was primarily a financial existential threat, but today it's a combination of a political and financial threat. 2025 will be, again, a difficult year,
Now, that's part, unfortunately, of the plight, but if you compare with what happened also in Gaza recently, you might have heard me describing how people are constantly being moved like pinballs. And one of the fears is that we replicate a situation similar to the one we have seen until now in Gaza,