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World Food Programme lead dismiss Israeli propaganda. |
The head of the World Food Programme is calling out Israel for intentionally starving children.
The widow of John McCain and mother of far right troll Meghan McCain has called for aid to the Palestinians.
Cindy McCain served under the Biden Administration for the United Nations Food Agencies of Food and Agriculture from 2021 to 2023.
McCain joined the World Food Programme in 2023 and is the chairwoman of the organization.
Appearing on CBS Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, McCain dismisses the Israeli hasbara about aid trucks being ransacked by Hamas. She denies that Hamas is stealing aid and tells the host that famine is happening.
McCain warned that the blockade by Israel of Gaza – which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says is to pressure Hamas into releasing the rest of the hostages – has caused a catastrophe for the 2.3 million Palestinians living there.
"Right now, we have 500,000 people inside of Gaza that are extremely food insecure, and could be on the verge of famine if we don't help bring them back from that," McCain said Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." "We need to get in, and we need to get in at scale, not just a few dribble of the trucks right now, as I said, it's a drop in the bucket."
In March, Israel ended a ceasefire and renewed its offensive in the territory, vowing to destroy Hamas and bring home the hostages Hamas still holds from the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack that triggered the war. Hamas has said it will only release the hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal.
Israel also blocked the import of all food, medicine and fuel for 2 ½ months before allowing a small number of aid trucks to enter in the last few days. The move only came after warnings from experts of a famine in Gaza and after pressure from some of Israel's top allies, including the United States.
During the ceasefire, the U.N. food aid program was getting upwards of 600 trucks a day into the territory. But now, only about 100 are being allowed to enter, McCain said.
Israelis are ransacking the trucks and literally destorying them. Israel has relentlessly targeted aid trucks and allowed only nine in during the first round.
"It's not nearly enough, and it needs to be going to the correct places," she said.
McCain also pushed back on Israel's claims that Hamas is responsible for the looting of 15 aid trucks, saying there is no evidence.
Again the settlers and IDF looted the trucks. They destroyed aid.
"These people are desperate, and they see a World Food Programme truck coming in, and they run for it," she said. "This doesn't have anything to do with Hamas or any kind of organized crime, or anything. It has simply to do with the fact these people are starving to death."
Gaza's Health Ministry has said that more than 3,780 people have been killed in the territory since Israel ended the ceasefire.
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McCain warns of the extinction of Gaza. |
Over the past 24 hours, at least 38 people in Gaza were killed by Israeli strikes, including a mother and her two children sheltering in a tent, health officials said.
There was no immediate comment from the military on the latest strikes.
"This is not an endless war," Israel's military chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, said during a visit to Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, recent ceasefire talks in Qatar gained no ground.
Hamas-led terrorists killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack and abducted 251 people. Around a third of the remaining hostages are believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.
Israel's 19-month offensive has killed over 53,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which says women and children make up most of the dead. It does not provide figures for the number of civilians or combatants killed.
The offensive has destroyed vast areas of Gaza and displaced around 90% of the territory's population, often multiple times.
Her late husband, former 2008 Republican presidential candidate and Arizona senator John McCain was a staunch supporter of Israel. He supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also advocated war and regime changes in Iran, Libya, Mozambique and Syria.
He passed away in 2018 a critic of President Donald J. Trump.
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