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From the Guardian: ‘Man-made starvation’: the obstacles to Gaza aid deliveries – visual guide

From the Guardian: ‘Man-made starvation’: the obstacles to Gaza aid deliveries – visual guide

Israel’s siege of Gaza has created what aid officials are referring to as “man-made starvation”, with the territory facing the threat of mass deaths from famine in the coming weeks. Children are already dying from hunger. As part of its devastating war strategy against Hamas, Israel has restricted shipments of food and medicine to just a fraction of what Palestinian civilians need to survive. The crisis is an artificially created one. “Starvation is used as a weapon of war,” the EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said this week. “Israel is provoking famine.”

Guardian publishes excellent interactive, investigative feature, “How war destroyed Gaza’s neighbourhoods”

Guardian publishes excellent interactive, investigative feature, “How war destroyed Gaza’s neighbourhoods”

Yesterday, the Guardian newspaper published an excellent feature on the destruction of Gaza’s neighborhoods. “Satellite imagery and open-source evidence lay bare the destruction to civilian infrastructure by Israel in its war on Hamas.” It’s one of the best uses of the Web in news reporting that I’ve ever seen, and both the investigation and its presentation speaks for itself, once you start scrolling and the page literally comes alive to communicate the scale of the destruction. It will take you some time to go through it, it’s extensive.