Where does Israel imagine starving Palestinians can go?

The number who starve to death will now go up steeply because Israel has only opened four feeding centres where there used to be 400.

As Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently pointed out to his colleagues, the problem with starving people is that the country’s allies cannot tolerate ‘images of mass famine,’ writes Gwynne Dyer.UN photograph courtesy of Loey Felipe

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 5, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—Reckless people fling accusations of attempted genocide in Gaza at the Israeli coalition government and the Israel Defense Force every day, but the scale of the operation is not remotely big enough to justify that word.

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