“Gaza is the hungriest place on Earth”
100% of population at risk of famine
All supported and legitimized by “the West”
“Gaza is hungriest place on Earth” with all people at risk of famine, says UN
The Guardian, by Lorenzo Tondo, 30 May 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/gaza-hungriest-place-earth-all-people-risk-famine-un
Gaza is “the hungriest place on Earth”, according to the UN, which has warned that the Palestinian territory’s entire population is at risk of famine. Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the territory was “the only defined area – a country or defined territory within a country – where you have the entire population at risk of famine. One hundred per cent of the population at risk of famine,” he said on Friday. “Gaza is the hungriest place on Earth.”
Laerke detailed the difficulties faced by the UN in delivering humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Nine hundred trucks of humanitarian aid had been authorised by Israel to enter the strip since the blockade was partially lifted, but so far only 600 had been offloaded on the Gaza side of the border, and a smaller number of shipments had then been picked up for distribution within the territory because of security considerations, he said. […]
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Israeli forces opened fire on crowds lined up at Israeli-controlled aid station
Health officials and witnesses in Gaza say at least 31 people were killed Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire on crowds headed to an Israeli-controlled aid distribution point near Rafah. Over 170 people were wounded
“There are hundreds and thousands of children needlessly dying, children being blown up, children being starved and children dying of otherwise preventable illnesses … it’s a mass destruction of an entire population, and we can’t stand by and let this happen any longer.”
- Dr. Victoria Rose, volunteer surgeon in Gaza
Democracy Now interview with Dr. Victoria Rose https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/2/gaza_doctor_israel_aid_attack
Freedom Flotilla Coalition. We sail until Palestine is free
https://freedomflotilla.org/
“We are doing this because no matter what odds we are against, we have to keep trying, because the moment we stop trying is when we lose our humanity."
- Greta Thunberg, who is aboard the Conscience.
March to Gaza
www.marchtogaza.net
MARCH TO GAZA! Join the international call aimed at opening the Rafah crossing to allow the flow of life-saving aid into Gaza.
Palestinian Youth Movement:
“This is a moment that requires new tactics to break the political siege on Gaza. We need to continue to increase the pressure however we can for as long as Gaza is under attack. The situation in Gaza is unbearable and governments and international bodies have failed to intervene to deliver justice for the people of Palestine. So we must do it ourselves. An international congregation will meet on June 15 in Egypt and will make its way towards the border with Rafah. Join the movement and march to Gaza!”
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Genocides as U.S. and Western-backed policy, from Guatemala to Palestine
Rights Action remembers the genocides carried out by U.S. and Western-backed military regimes in Guatemala in the 1970s- 80s, targeting and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, a majority being Mayan indigenous. During the worst years (1978-1983), U.S. allies – mainly Britain, France, Israel, Germany and military regimes in Chile and Argentina - also provided military aid, weapons and training to the genocidal regimes.
The devastating legacies of the genocides are an on-going lived experience today in the lives and communities of the Guatemalan survivors, their children and grand-children.
Accountability for U.S. and Western complicity
As we try to do with our work in Guatemala and Honduras, Rights Action encourages and supports education, organizing and activism work to hold the U.S.-led West legally and politically accountable for supporting, enabling and legitimizing Israel’s systematic crimes against humanity and war crimes against Palestine and the Palestinian people.
Urgent need to diversify media sources
Rights Action urges any and every one to diversify their news sources, as a necessary antidote to the oftentimes harmful, misleading reporting coming from much of the mainstream government and corporate media in the U.S., the E.U. and Canada. We recommend daily news provided by Al Jazeera news (https://www.aljazeera.com), Democracy Now (www.democracynow.org), The Real News (https://therealnews.com/), etc.
We encourage everyone to get involved with, follow news feeds of:
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East: https://www.cjpme.org
Jewish Voices for Peace (U.S.): https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
Independent Jewish Voices (Canada): https://www.ijvcanada.org
Palestinian Youth Movement: https://palestinianyouthmovement.com
CAIR California Resource Guide: https://ca.cair.com/losangeles/palestine-resource-guide
Palestine Solidarity Campaign: https://palestinecampaign.org/resources
If Not Now (U.S.): https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org/
If Not Now (Cda): https://www.ifnotnow.ca/
Ceasefire Now: https://ceasfirenow.ca
Ceasefire Today: https://ceasefiretoday.com
BDS Movement: https://bdsmovement.net
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: https://x.com/FranceskAlbs
Double Down News: https://www.doubledown.news
Medical Aid for Palestinians: https://www.map.org.uk
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor: https://euromedmonitor.org/en
Canadian Foreign Policy Institute: https://www.foreignpolicy.ca
CODEPINK: https://twitter.com/codepink
World BEYOND War Canada: https://worldbeyondwar.org/canada