The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification and the World Food Programme offer a mathematical threshold for what constitutes a famine.
  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    194·
    10 months ago

    It should, and would be part of Israel’s attempted genocide based on the current UN definition:

    https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

    "Article II

    In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

    Killing members of the group;

    Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

    Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

    Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

    Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

    Artificially generated famine would cover bullet points 1-4. “Rescuing the kids” (if it comes to that) would be #5.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    76·
    10 months ago

    The Gaza Health Ministry said Wednesday that at least 20 people have died of malnutrition at hospitals and warned that it believes "dozens are dying silently" unable to reach medical facilities. The World Health Organization visited northern Gaza over the weekend and confirmed at least 10 child starvation deaths at the time of the team’s visit.

    We should probably wait a little longer until Palestinians drop to death en-masse to make sure that they’re not making wild claims. Just to be safe right.