In Manila on eve of Middle East trip, US secretary of state echoes UN-backed assessment that famine looms in war-wracked enclave

“According to the most respected measure of these things, 100 percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. That’s the first time an entire population has been so classified,” Blinken told a press conference in the Philippines, where he is on an official visit.

  • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Yeah but that stops Isreali interest in the starvation of others. Won’t be at all surprised to see any aid put at the dock turned away or blocked from being distributed