Miranda Cleland – Middle East Eye July 23, 2025
Two-year-old Hasan Barbakh died of starvation on 24 June, after months of prolonged malnutrition, dehydration, an enlarged liver, and acute blood toxicity.
He would have turned three the next day.
Hasan was just over a year old when Israel launched its genocidal campaign on the Gaza Strip, cutting off every Palestinian in Gaza from the outside world.
Israeli displacement orders forced his family to move around like chess pieces. Not long after Israeli authorities imposed a total blockade in March, Hasan’s health began to deteriorate. He lost 2kg in weight.
“From the first week of the siege, [his weight] began to drop daily, and his voice grew weaker,” Hasan’s mother, Amna, told a field researcher from Defence for Children International-Palestine, where I work as an advocacy officer. “I sensed he was slowly fading away.”
Hasan was admitted to the nutrition department at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis on 23 April.
Like every remaining medical facility in Gaza, it lacks medicine, infant formula, medical equipment, doctors, electricity, food and clean water to properly treat children suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
Weaponised starvation
Palestinians in Gaza are now dying of starvation at an alarming rate. On Sunday alone, at least 19 people died from hunger, according to Gaza health authorities.
There is simply no food left, as Israel continues to block humanitarian aid from entering, and its military forces kill Palestinians seeking assistance from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Starvation is entirely preventable. The death of even one child from hunger does not happen by accident. The starvation of one million children in Gaza is a genocide.
Hasan died the very morning that Defence for Children International-Palestine released a new report, Starving a Generation: Israel’s Famine Campaign Targeting Palestinian Children in Gaza.
It includes 33 documented cases of child starvation, among them Hasan, whose case was recorded by one of our field researchers in May. We updated the report to include his death just before publication.
I co-authored this report, which asserts that Israeli authorities are deliberately weaponising starvation as a tool of genocide – and that the impact of this period will last for generations.
Our field researchers in Gaza documented some of the earliest cases of child starvation in early 2024 and continued collecting evidence well into Israel’s latest closure of the Gaza Strip.
We argue that Israel unleashed famine in Gaza in early 2024, when the first child died of starvation, and that it has not ended since.
Genocidal intent
A famine does not simply occur by chance. Israeli authorities have deliberately manufactured famine in Gaza by implementing attacks and policies that prevent basic essentials from reaching Palestinians in need.
While Israel’s supporters have denied this, Israeli officials made their intentions clear in the early days of the genocide.
Who can forget what then-Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant declared on 9 October 2023?
Among the earliest and most striking examples of genocidal intent to starve Palestinians in Gaza, he said: “We are imposing a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel, everything will be closed. We are fighting against human animals and we are acting accordingly.”
The siege that followed never ended. Palestinian children are dying, one after another, from prolonged malnutrition and dehydration, which shuts down their bodies slowly and painfully.
Young children, newborn babies, and children with disabilities or chronic conditions are among the most vulnerable to malnutrition and dehydration, wrote the Doctors Against Genocide medical team in one section of DCIP’s latest report.
Children who experience prolonged malnutrition at a young age typically grow up stunted, with weak immune systems, and are more likely to develop chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.
They experience academic and behavioural problems in school and face long-term issues with attention, learning and executive functioning.
DCIP’s field researchers documented 33 cases of child starvation for our report, but this represents only a fraction of the true toll of malnutrition in Gaza. The scale of the genocide – and the risks facing our field researchers – make it impossible to document every case.
Global complicity
Right now, every child in Gaza is facing starvation. Israeli authorities are not the only ones responsible for this suffering.
World leaders – who have watched Israeli officials lay out plans to starve Palestinians, drop 2,000-pound bombs on apartment buildings, shoot children and families sheltering in schools, and attack every hospital in Gaza – are complicit and must be held accountable.
This report’s findings could not be more urgent. What line could be more red than a starving baby, wasting away before his mother’s eyes?
It is too late for Hasan, who should have celebrated his third birthday and instead succumbed to starvation while his mother watched helplessly.
It is too late for all the other Palestinian children who have died a slow, painful death as their muscles wasted away and their organs failed from a lack of food and water.
It is not too late for the one million hungry children still in Gaza, waiting for a day when they have enough to eat.
We are calling for an immediate and decisive end to Israel’s siege and genocide in Gaza – and for world leaders to take every action necessary to save the lives of Palestinian children and families. Anything short of that is simply not enough.
israel will have to pay huge reparations for its crimes
Nutenyahu said its ok the Americans will pay
well what if they dont ?
THE GOVERNMENT HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE
we dont want the country full of migrants
police forces are under immense pressure from violent protests, with warnings of a potential summer of unrest and concerns about officer welfare.
Disturbances in Epping, outside a hotel housing asylum seekers, have cost Essex Police £100,000 and led to eight officers being injured.
The Police Federation reports a significant rise in officers taking mental health leave and high resignation rates, attributing this to low morale, declining pay, and stretched resources.
The redeployment of 1,500 officers to Scotland for Donald Trump’s private visit is further straining police resources across the country.
Political figures have commented on the situation, with Angela Rayner warning of more riots and Kemi Badenoch urging vigilance.
this is what we want
Send migrants home
air drop food to gaza
use existing laws on racism to prosecute ministers who do not help
Kneecap banned from Hungary ahead of appearance at major festival
synagogues join in mass action
JEWS KILLING CHRISTIANS
Israeli settlers burn West Bank’s last Christian town
Story by Iona Cleave • 2h
The Israeli settlers crept up to the ancient church perched above the West Bank’s last Christian-majority town.
As they reached the outer walls, they crouched down to light a ring of fire. Then they revved the engines of the weapons brought to fan the flames: garden leaf blowers. residents watched in horror as the blaze spread closer to the Church of St George, which dates back to the fifth century.
The flames were doused, but not for long. That evening, settlers returned to the town of Taybeh with assault rifles. The same happened the next day and three days after that. Bashar Fawadleh, the parish priest, told The Telegraph: “Each time we called the Israeli police, but they did not come.
Bashar Fawadleh, the parish priest, told The Telegraph: “ “If they attack our sacred site, they can attack anything of ours.”
Settler attacks on Palestinians are on the rise across the occupied West Bank, where roughly half a million Israelis live in Jewish settlements among three million Palestinians
Five Palestinians have been killed in the last two weeks in villages and towns not far from Taybeh, including Sinjil where two men, including a dual US citizen, were beaten to death by settlers on July 12, prompting fury from the Trump administration.
While most of the violence is directed against Muslims, settlers have started to attack Palestinian Christian villages like Taybeh.
The once-flourishing Christian community in the West Bank has dramatically shrunk to less than 2 per cent of the population as many emigrated abroad to escape the jewish violence and religious killings.
The same has happened in Gaza, where its roughly 1,000 Christians are mostly sheltering in the war-battered Strip’s last three churches, one of which was attacked by Israeli forces last week, killing three civilians.
Walking around the scorched earth that now encircles the Church of St George, Father Bashar warned: “This is just the beginning. They want to put fear in our hearts to live here. “These killings will bleed the town of people as they leave scared. We have lost 10 families already in the past two years.”
Emboldened settlers have set up illegal outposts closer to the town. A makeshift sign written in Hebrew erected outside the ancient town in June read: “There is no future for you here.” David Khoury, the leader of Taybeh’s Greek Orthodox Church, also fears an exodus.
“The settlers are making problems for us every day. Assaulting, vandalising, terrorising, terrifying our families, destroying our fields of olive trees, damaging our properties,” he said.
There were more than 750 incidents of settler violence recorded in the first half of this year, up from 216 for the whole of 2023, according to the United Nations. Israeli settler settlers have grazed their cattle at the church, in what residents said is a desecration of the holy site – Nabd El-Haya
Israeli settlers have grazed their cattle in the church, in what residents said is a desecration of the holy site – Nabd El-Haya
The settler community is seizing the moment to annex land Israel has occupied since the 1967 Six Day War, encouraged by hard-Right ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government, including Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, who come from settler backgrounds.
The Israeli settlers first attacked Taybeh, north east of Ramallah – the de facto capital of the Palestinian territory – .Visiting Taybeh, the Patriarchs and heads of churches in Jerusalem condemned the most recent violence as “clearly part of the systematic attacks against Christians that we see unfolding throughout the region”.
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel who is an evangelical Christian and staunch advocate of Israeli settlement construction, also toured the blackened church site on Saturday. He called the attacks an “act of terror” and demanded “harsh consequences” for the perpetrators. But he did not attribute the attack to jewsThe mayor is on high alert after the recent killings in Sinjil. “What happened there could at any moment happen to us – the settlers don’t care whether we are Christian or Muslim. We are under attack because we are Palestinian.”
White House “very concerned” about Netanyahus mental health
Story by Stephanie Gauthier
yeah pity they are not concerned about the starving millions in the occupied territories BASTARDS
notice never anything on these alt news sites about white Ukrainian kids being killed by the chabad ghoul and its eurasian commie army
@ COLIN
USA + GERMANY will have to pay because
we did not kill our jewsupporting leader scum !
There is a reason to be concerned about the Gaza extermination and the world doing nothing to stop it, it could lead to judgment by the “gods” – advanced ET race from some other place in the galaxy. The reason I bring this up is a 500 year old British woman prophecy, Mother Shipton, who made very specific forecast about our fate, in our current time period, and now we have an inbound object from another solar system:
An Interstellar Object Like Oumuamua Just Enters Our Solar System: Scientists Can’t Believe Its Size
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puv9l4edDvM
Yes Virginia, FROM ANOTHER SOLAR SYSTEM.
Now read this prophecy, which unlike Nostradumbass, is in chronological order and very clear verse.
https://www.crystalinks.com/mother_shipton.html
Mother Shipton’s Prophecy – an audiovisual representation – Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfBw6DG-eq4
For those who live the century through
In fear and trembling this shall do.
Flee to the mountains and the dens
To bog and forest and wild fens.
For storms will rage and oceans roar
When Gabriel stands on sea and shore
And as he blows his wondrous horn
Old worlds die and new be born.
A fiery dragon will cross the sky
Six times before this earth shall die
Mankind will tremble and frightened be
for the sixth heralds in this prophecy.
For seven days and seven nights
Man will watch this awesome sight.
The tides will rise beyond their ken
To bite away the shores and then
The mountains will begin to roar
And earthquakes split the plain to shore.
And flooding waters, rushing in
Will flood the lands with such a din
That mankind cowers in muddy fen
And snarls about his fellow men.
He bares his teeth and fights and kills
And secrets food in secret hills
And ugly in his fear, he lies
To kill marauders, thieves and spies.
Man flees in terror from the floods
And kills, and rapes and lies in blood
And spilling blood by mankinds’ hands
Will stain and bitter many lands
And when the dragon’s tail is gone,
Man forgets, and smiles, and carries on
To apply himself – too late, too late
For mankind has earned deserved fate.
His masked smile – his false grandeur,
Will serve the Gods their anger stir.
And they will send the Dragon back
To light the sky – his tail will crack
Upon the earth and rend the earth
And man shall flee, King, Lord, and serf.
But slowly they are routed out
To seek diminishing water spout
And men will die of thirst before
The oceans rise to mount the shore.
And lands will crack and rend anew
You think it strange. It will come true.
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want to know when “For seven days and seven nights”?
check the orbit diagram of 3I/ATLAS
interactive, click on the buttons to move comet forward
https://astro.vanbuitenen.nl/comet/3I
Oct 7th, 2025 it will be very close to Mars, that is when it will become a concern
At 31 Oct 2025 the sun will block view of it, at that point it could start slowing down to establish a solar orbit
look up “reverse oberth manuever”
“At its closest point to the Sun, the object reaches perihelion on October 29, 2025. During this moment, it is not visible from Earth due to solar obstruction. This type of alignment, where the Sun blocks line of sight to the object, is a natural consequence of orbital geometry. However, the authors note that such a moment is ideal for an interstellar spacecraft to perform a reverse Oberth maneuver. This is a technique in which thrust is applied at the point of greatest velocity in an object’s orbit, maximizing the effect of propulsion. In this case, the maneuver would be used not to accelerate but to brake, converting the object’s high-speed hyperbolic trajectory into a bound orbit around the Sun. If 3I/ATLAS were a spacecraft, this solar occultation would provide perfect cover for such a high-thrust maneuver.”