Evidence that Israel is using starvation as weapon of war in Gaza says UN

There is plausible evidence that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war, according to the United Nations' most senior human rights official. Volker Turk said that would amount to a war crime. Humanitarian agencies have long been calling for an immediate ceasefire and large deliveries of aid in Gaza, where a famine is looming. Israel insists that it’s letting in all the humanitarian aid that is needed.

Parts of Gaza at risk of famine according to World Food Program

The World Food Program is warning that parts of Gaza are at risk of famine. The United Nations agency says very little food has made it past southern Gaza since the conflict began. Israel claims it has placed no restrictions on aid deliveries. But aid workers accuse Israeli forces of blocking access to some areas. The Hamas-run health authority in Gaza says more than 25,000 palestinians have been killed in the war.

North Koreans tell BBC they are stuck and waiting to die

 

Three North Koreans want to tell the world about the situation in the country. They expose, for the first time, the disaster unfolding there since the government sealed the borders more than three years ago starvation, brutal crackdowns and no chance to escape. Under the tyrannical rule of Kim Jong Un, North Koreans are forbidden from making contact with the outside world.

North Koreans tell BBC of neighbours starving to death - BBC News

 

People in North Korea have told the BBC food is so scarce their neighbours have starved to death. The government sealed the country's border in 2020 in response to the pandemic, cutting off vital supplies. Exclusive interviews gathered inside the world’s most isolated state suggest the situation is the worst it has been since the 1990s, experts say. It has also tightened its control over people's lives, our interviewees say, making it even harder to survive.

Lebanon crisis: 'A father without his children, it's terrible'

 

The number of children going hungry and being sent out to work continues to surge in Lebanon, as the country battles one of the worst economic crises in modern history.

More than 80% of the population is now estimated to be living in poverty, with charities warning of the severe impact on the next generation.

In the northern province of Akkar, a children's shelter has seen double the number of children left by their parents, who can no longer afford to feed them.

China is Trying To Starve the World

 

War in Ukraine is impacting global food security

 

According to the UN, up to one-third of Ukraine’s crops may be lost this year because of the Russian invasion. Ukraine is a big producer of wheat, corn and cooking oil. With food prices skyrocketing, many countries are fearing a looming famine.

How Stalin starved Ukraine

 

In Ukraine, it’s become known as “the Holodomor,” meaning “death by starvation.” It was a genocide carried out by a dictator who wanted to keep Ukraine under his control and who would do anything to keep it covered up for decades. In the 1930s, Soviet leaders under Joseph Stalin engineered a famine that killed millions as they sought to consolidate agricultural power. In Ukraine, they used additional force as they sought to clamp down on a burgeoning Ukrainian national identity.

What can be done to save millions facing famine? (video)

A man-made humanitarian crisis, unprecedented in recent history and one that is entirely preventable.

Close to 20 million people in three African countries and Yemen are at risk of starvation.

The UN secretary general says more than $4bn is needed within the next three weeks or many more will die. Antonio Guterres made an emergency visit to Somalia, where a national disaster has been declared because of drought. About half of the country’s population faces severe food shortages.

In South Sudan, famine has been declared in parts of the country. Up to a million people there will soon run out of food.

And the UN says that 400,000 Nigerian children face malnutrition. Close to 80,000 of them might not survive the next few months.

Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Somalia's Famine

REWIND revisits a Fault Lines probe into Somalia's disastrous 2011 famine and the role of US counterterrorism.

In 2011, the worst drought in 60 years threw some 13 million people across the Horn of Africa into crisis. In Somalia, ravaged by two decades of conflict, the consequences were disastrous. Hundreds of thousands starved to death, many of them children.

In the midst of this human catastrophe Fault Lines travelled to Mogadishu to meet refugees who had fled to the most war-ravaged city in the world to escape an even worse fate, and the aid and medical workers struggling to help them.

North Korean cannibalism fears amid claims starving people 'eat children and corpses'

The reports come as sanctions against the country are tightened against the backdrop of angry rhetoric over missile testing

Shocking reports claim North Koreans are turning to cannibalism including details of one man who dug up his grandchild's corpse to eat and another who boiled his child and ate the flesh.
Details of the incidents were reported by the Asia Press, and published in the Sunday Times.
They claim a 'hidden famine' in the farming provinces of North and South Hwanghae has killed 10,000 people, and there are fears that cannibalism is spreading throughout the country.

The litany of horrors were documented by Asia Press, a specialist news agency based in Osaka, Japan, which claims to have recruited a network of "citizen journalists" inside North Korea. The reports are considered credible.

One informant, based in South Hwanghae, said: "In my village in May, a man who killed his own two children and tried to eat them was executed by a firing squad.
"While his wife was away on business he killed his eldest daughter and, because his son saw what he had done, he killed his son as well. When the wife came home, he offered her food, saying: 'We have meat.'
"But his wife, suspicious, notified the Ministry of Public Security, which led to the discovery of part of their children's bodies under the eaves."
Jiro Ishimaru, from Asia Press said: 'Particularly shocking were the numerous testimonies that hit us about cannibalism.'
Another of the citizen journalists, Gu Gwang-ho, said: "There was an incident when a man was arrested for digging up the grave of his grandchild and eating the remains."
A middle ranking official of the ruling Korean Workers Party said: "In a village in Chongdan county, a man who went mad with hunger boiled his own child, ate his flesh and was arrested"