{"id":1551177,"date":"2024-03-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=463436"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:00:00","slug":"israels-use-of-mass-starvation-as-a-weapon-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/13\/israels-use-of-mass-starvation-as-a-weapon-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s Use of Mass Starvation as a Weapon of War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- BLOCK(acast)[0](%7B%22componentName%22%3A%22ACAST%22%2C%22entityType%22%3A%22SHORTCODE%22%2C%22optional%22%3Afalse%7D)(%7B%22id%22%3A%22israels-use-of-mass-starvation-as-a-weapon-of-war%22%2C%22podcast%22%3A%22intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill%22%2C%22subscribe%22%3Atrue%7D) -->\n<div class=\"acast-player\">\n  <iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill\/israels-use-of-mass-starvation-as-a-weapon-of-war?accentColor=111111&#038;bgColor=f5f6f7&%23038;logo=false\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"acast-player__embed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<!-- END-BLOCK(acast)[0] -->\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-underline\">After six months<\/span> of a sustained U.S.-backed Israeli war of annihilation against the Palestinians of Gaza, President Joe Biden says he now has a \u201cred line.\u201d Asked about Israel\u2019s threatened full-scale invasion of Rafah, Biden said, \u201cYou can&#8217;t have another 30,000 Palestinians dead as a consequence of going after [Hamas],\u201d Biden told MSNBC. \u201cThere are other ways to deal with Hamas.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The White House has taken no action to halt the transfer of arms and other support to Israel\u2019s war and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has openly said that he, not Biden, will decide whether to occupy Gaza. As the Ramadan holiday begins, the humanitarian reality of the people in Gaza has descended into horror. Israel\u2019s deliberate starvation campaign is intensifying the already indescribable suffering wrought by constant bombing and ground operations. The <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/01\/31\/gaza-pregnancy-childbirth-health-care\/\">decimation of the health infrastructure <\/a>and the <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/02\/08\/gaza-hospital-seige-red-crescent\/\">attacks<\/a> against <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/01\/31\/israel-west-bank-hospital-raid\/\">hospitals<\/a> have resulted in the collapse of basic health services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week on Intercepted, Yara Asi, author of \u201cHow War Kills: The Overlooked Threats to Our Health,\u201d joins Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain for a discussion on the health impacts of the war, the dehumanizing narratives Israel has deployed to justify its mass-killing operations, and the U.S. plans for building a port off the Gaza coast. Asi is an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida in the School of Global Health Management and co-director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Transcript coming soon. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/03\/13\/intercepted-gaza-mass-starvation\/\">Israel\u2019s Use of Mass Starvation as a Weapon of War<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/03\/13\/intercepted-gaza-mass-starvation\/\">The Intercept<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aid groups assert that U.S. airdrop efforts fall short in averting famine, compounded by Israel\u2019s obstruction of aid truck access via land routes.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/03\/13\/intercepted-gaza-mass-starvation\/\">Israel\u2019s Use of Mass Starvation as a Weapon of War<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/\">The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561765,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551177\/revisions\/1561765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}