How Many Starving Children Does It Take to Make Up for 10/7?
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Is there a number? Is it all? I’m not sure these kids born after the Hamas attacks in Israel deserve to die for the sins of Hamas…..
Sahar al-Zebdda was born in a hospital with no electricity. She died 47 days later from complications of malnutrition, her doctor said — her short life a chronicle of the deprivation overwhelming Gaza.
On Feb. 27, with her underfed mother unable to breastfeed and her father unable to obtain formula, Sahar became one of the youngest victims of a food shortage that has reached critical levels in the northern part of the enclave. Her parents had been displaced five times over nearly five months of conflict.
“We expected that one of us would die by bombing or be killed by bullets,” her father, Tawfiq al-Zebdda, 27, told The Washington Post in a phone interview. “We did not know that the baby girl who was born and died during the war would die of hunger.”
Post reporters found the families in this story through doctors at hospitals in northern Gaza, which aid experts say is nearing a dangerous tipping point: 1 in 6 children under age 2 are acutely malnourished, according to the World Health Organization, triple the levels seen in the south, where more food assistance has arrived. Without a cease-fire and a dramatic increase in aid, humanitarian officials warn that malnutrition and disease are likely to claim a growing number of lives, in a war the Gaza Health Ministry says has already killed more than 30,000 people.
“The child deaths we feared are here,” Adele Khodr, UNICEF regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement Sunday.
At least 16 children have died of malnutrition, according to local health officials, all but one of them in the north — where Israeli forces have wrapped up their ground offensive but where the arrival of aid trucks remains severely constrained. Infants, the elderly and the infirm are particularly vulnerable.
Note that stopping this does not even require Israel to stop all actions against Hamas. It just requires caring about whether people in Gaza live or die. And Israel does not care about this. In fact, it’s quite clear that it is quasi-official policy of that nation to hope as many Gazans die as possible. Whether this is “genocide” or not is an open question. Whether Jews can plausibly support committing genocide after their experiences in World War II Europe though, that’s been decided affirmatively.