JOURNO SCHOOLED ON GAZA AID DECEPTION

TalkTV host Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1 on X) could not name a single organisation or entity to support her statement that H*m*s has been stealing food aid when her guest, Dr Ashok Kumar (@broseph_stalin on X), asked her for proof.

Many have long accused Hartley-Brewer of employing an abrasive and confrontational interview style. Some noticed Hartley-Brewer spoke over Dr Mustafa Barghouti, the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, in an interview that went viral. She notably accused Barghouti of misogyny by saying, ‘Maybe you're not used to women talking. I don't know!’

However, such tactics would not intimidate Kumar, who insisted Hartley-Brewer uphold a basic journalistic standard: Presenting evidence to support a statement or opinion. Beginning on 2 March, Israel stopped all supplies, such as food, water and medicine, from reaching Gaza to force H*mas to renegotiate the 19 January ceasefire. Then, on 18 March, it broke the truce by launching airstrikes.

The UN and other international organisations are warning that the entire population of more than 2 million people faces prolonged food shortages, with nearly a half-million grappling with catastrophic levels of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death. 

International experts and organisations have issued repeated warnings of widespread famine unless Israel lifts its blockade of Gaza and allows easier aid access.

In May, the UN reported that 57 children died from malnutrition since Israel began the aid blockade on 2 March, with nearly 71,000 children under the age of five expected to be ‘acutely malnourished’ over the next 10 months. 

As of press time, Israel's onslaught on Gaza and the Palestinian people has k*lled 55,362 and injured more than 127,000 since 7 October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Since breaking the ceasefire on 18 March, Israel has k*lled 4,821 people, including hundreds of children, and injured at least 15,353 people, as of a UN article on 13 May.

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