{"id":1605457,"date":"2024-04-11T21:30:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=590d8c998309d2e9cc785fba35e6dc75"},"modified":"2024-04-11T21:30:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T21:30:30","slug":"top-biden-official-admits-famine-is-spreading-in-gaza-as-us-continues-funding-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/04\/11\/top-biden-official-admits-famine-is-spreading-in-gaza-as-us-continues-funding-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Biden Official Admits Famine Is Spreading in Gaza as US Continues Funding It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A top Biden administration official working on international affairs acknowledged on Wednesday that famine is unfolding in Gaza &mdash; the first time that a senior member of President Joe Biden&rsquo;s government has recognized the consequences of Israel&rsquo;s U.S.-backed starvation campaign in Gaza. In a hearing in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/top-biden-official-admits-famine-is-spreading-in-gaza-as-us-continues-funding-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/top-biden-official-admits-famine-is-spreading-in-gaza-as-us-continues-funding-it\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famine is \u201cgiving rise already to child deaths in the north,\u201d the USAID chief said in a congressional hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18751,287,288,82,51,4,473],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605457"}],"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\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605462,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605457\/revisions\/1605462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}