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Whereas as stated on page 45 / 336 of our INSTRUCTIONS FOR LEGAL
ASSISTANCE, the UNLAWFUL LIQUOR BAN being a notice dated #308 - 30 MAY 2017
as having a *NUMEN* *AUGUSTI* IMPETUS [#38 - 8 JUNE 2017 (*) STATUE PLAQUE INSTALLATION, #71 - SAINT PATRICK'S DAY (*) / DOMINION v's MITHRAISM AS SOLDIERS OF THE IMPERIUM, #14 - 28 MAY 2017 / 2023 (*) BOER WAR MEMORIAL INFIDELITY] being evidence of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT (* noumenon referencing) and a transition event conforming to a deference give towards
the CATHOLIC ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR of PENTECOST SUNDAY on #242 - 4 JUNE
2017 with mail delivery #298 - 5 JUNE 2017 (eg: *GOOD* *FRIDAY*
*AGREEMENT*) and received #233 - 7 JUNE 2017 exhibiting commemoration infidelity by a SCOTTISH (ie. a common device as an economy for action) regiment POPPY WREATH directed towards the BOER WAR MEMORIAL which usually
is observed upon the Sunday prior to or upon #410 - 31 MAY, since BOER WAR
DAY, despite a local memorial existing from 29 OCTOBER 1909, was only
generally (ie. The NATIONAL BOER WAR MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION Inc was formed in 2007 under the leadership of Colonel John Haynes OAM (Ret'd) with the aim
of constructing a memorial which was opened by His Excellency the Governor General SIR PETER COSGROVE on 27 MAY 2017. The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION in
accord with its constitution was wound-up in 2018) established in 2010 to generate public interest within Australia's first war without offending the local SALE RSL faction of IRISH CATHOLIC REPUBLICANISM with their
ANTI-BRITISH (ie. the failed military action implicit to a lack of noble rulers) ATLANTIS 25 APRIL 1915 PHANTASM by asserting any LETTERS PATENT imperative.

REDUCTIO AD HITLERUM [#40 - LAW / MODEL (FA)] -> #38 - FULLNESS (SHENG): 7
JUNE 1942: AS IDEA #235: "TACTICS FOR THE SEIZING OF POWER: The activities
of the Church in Spain are no different from those of the Catholic Church
in our own country, or indeed from those of most Churches in any other
country. Any Church, provided it is in a position to exert [a calculated, premeditated and deterministic] influence on the civil régime, will, as a matter of principle, support or tolerate only such a régime as knows and recognises no form of popular organisation other than one under the œgis
(ie. endorsement, sponsorship) of the Church, and is therefore dependent,
for purposes of general administration, solely on the Church, as the only organised leadership of the people.

Unless it is prepared to renounce that striving for power, which is
inherent in every Church participating in politics, the Church in Spain
cannot recognise the present régime, which has created in the FALANGE (ie.
the Spanish Fascist movement that merged with traditional right-wing
elements in 1937 to form the ruling party, and was formally abolished in
1977) an organisation of its own for the direction of the Spanish people.
There is therefore only one thing the Falange can do to establish definite relations with the Church, and that is to limit the intervention of the
latter to religious—that is, supernatural—affairs.

If one once allows the Church to exercise the slightest influence on the governing of the people and the upbringing of the younger generation, it
will strive to become omnipotent, and one makes a great mistake if one
thinks that one can make a collaborator of the Church by accepting a compromise...

In all the discussions on this subject I found myself repeatedly compelled
to say that such a thing as treason on idealistic grounds did not exist.
The only type of treason which one might possibly regard as springing from certain moral inhibitions is a refusal to join the armed forces on grounds
of religious conviction. But we should not fail to point out to these
elements which refuse to fight on religious grounds that they obviously
still want to eat the things others are fighting to get for them, that this
was quite contrary to the spirit of a higher justice, and that we must therefore leave them to starve.

#283 - ONTIC CHECKSUM TOTAL: #156 as [#6, #5, #6, #100, #70, #50, #6, #40]
= yâqaʻ (H3363): {UMBRA: #180 % #41 = #16} 1) to be dislocated, be
alienated; 1a) (Qal) to be dislocated, be torn away, be alienated; 1b) (Hiphil); 1b1) to execute slowly (by exposure or impalation); 1b2) to hang;
1c) (Hophal) *TO* *BE* *EXECUTED*;

#1092 - DEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #300 as [#500, #1, #100, #10, #200, #1, #10,
#70, #200] = Pharisaîos (G5330): {UMBRA: #1092 % #41 = #26} 1) A sect that seems to have started after the Jewish exile. In addition to OT books the Pharisees recognised in oral tradition a standard of belief and life. They sought for distinction and praise by outward observance of external rites
and by outward forms of piety, and such as ceremonial washings, fastings, prayers, and alms giving; and, comparatively negligent of genuine piety,
they prided themselves on their fancied good works. They held strenuously
to a belief in the existence of good and evil angels, and to the
expectation of a Messiah; and they cherished the hope that the dead, after
a preliminary experience either of reward or of penalty in Hades, would be recalled to life by him, and be requited each according to his individual deeds. *IN* *OPPOSITION* *TO* *THE* *USURPED* *DOMINION* *OF* *THE*
*HERODS* *AND* *THE* *RULE* *OF* *THE* *ROMANS*, *THEY* *STOUTLY* *UPHELD* *THE* *THEOCRACY* *AND* *THEIR* *COUNTRY'S* *CAUSE*, *AND* *POSSESSED*
*GREAT* *INFLUENCE* *WITH* *THE* *COMMON* *PEOPLE*. According to Josephus
they numbered more than 6000. They were bitter enemies of Jesus and his
cause; and were in turn severely rebuked by him for their avarice,
ambition, hollow reliance on outward works, and affection of piety in order
to gain popularity.;

"THOUGH I MIGHT ALSO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE FLESH. IF ANY OTHER MAN
THINKETH THAT HE HATH WHEREOF HE MIGHT TRUST IN THE FLESH, I MORE:
CIRCUMCISED THE EIGHTH DAY, OF THE STOCK OF ISRAEL, OF THE TRIBE OF
BENJAMIN, AN HEBREW OF THE HEBREWS; AS TOUCHING THE LAW, A
*PHARISEE*-G5330; CONCERNING ZEAL, PERSECUTING THE CHURCH; TOUCHING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS IN THE LAW, BLAMELESS." [Philippians 3:4-6]

I regard it as an act of exceptional clemency that I did not, in fact,
carry out this threat, but contented myself with shooting one hundred and thirty of these self-styled *BIBLE* *STUDENTS* (Bibelforscher) [BETWEEN
AUGUST 1939 AND SEPTEMBER 1940, 152 JEHOVAH'S WITNESS BIBLE STUDENTS
APPEARED BEFORE THE HIGHEST MILITARY COURT OF THE WEHRMACHT, CHARGED WITH DEMORALIZATION OF THE ARMED FORCES]. Incidentally, the execution of these hundred and thirty cleared the #AIR, just like a thunderstorm does. When
the news of the shootings was made public, many thousands of similarly
minded people who proposed to avoid military service on the score of some religious scruple or other lost their courage and changed their minds.

If you wish to wage war successfully or to lead a people successfully
through a difficult period of its history, you must have no doubts whatever
on one point—namely, any individual who in such times tries, either
actively or passively, to exclude himself from the activities of the
community, must be destroyed.

Anyone who for false reasons of mercy deviates from this clear principle is *AIDING*, *WILLINGLY* *OR* *UNWILLINGLY*, *THE* *DISSOLUTION* *OF* *THE* *STATE*." [pages 515, 516, 519]

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#51 - 𝌸常 = #502
COGITO: [#81, #31, #68, #40, #40] as #51 - CONSTANCY (CH'ANG)

APPRAISAL #1: Holding up the ink­-line of the gods, (戴神墨)
He follows the sacred model. (履良式)
Using the One to pair ten thousand, (以一耦萬)
To the end, his light does not fade. (終不稷)
FATHOMING #1: Upholding divine measure (戴神墨)
MEANS: He embodies the form of the One. (體一形也)

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[#81 {@1: Sup: 81 - FOSTERING: YANG (#81 - MALE DEME IS UNNAMED {%0}); Ego:
81 - FOSTERING: YANG (#81 - MALE DEME IS UNNAMED {%0})}

#31 {@2: Sup: 31 - PACKING: CHUANG (#112 - MALE DEME IS UNNAMED {%6}); Ego:
31 - PACKING: CHUANG (#112 - MALE DEME IS UNNAMED {%6})}

#68 {@3: Sup: 18 - WAITING: HSI (#130 - I AM NOT EVIL MINDED {%3}); Ego: 68
- DIMMING: MENG (#180 - I COMMIT NOT ADULTERY WITH ANOTHER'S WIFE {%19})}

#40 {@4: Sup: 58 - GATHERING IN: HSI (#188); Ego: 40 - LAW / MODEL: FA
(#220 - I CURSE NOT A GOD {%38} / I CURSE NOT A GOD {%38})}

#40] {@5: Sup: 17 - HOLDING BACK: JUAN (#205); Ego: 40 - LAW / MODEL: FA (#260)}

TELOS TOTAL: #260 as [#100, #90, #10, #50, #10] = qâtsîyn (H7101): {UMBRA: #250 % #41 = #4} 1) *CHIEF*, *RULER*, *COMMANDER*; 1a) chief, commander (in war); 1b) *DICTATOR*; 1c) ruler (of one in authority);

ONTIC CHECKSUM TOTAL: #530

DEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #606

#502 as [#80, #1, #300, #100, #10, #1, #10] = patriá (G3965): {UMBRA: #492
% #41 = #41} 1) lineage running back to some progenitor, ancestry; 2) a
nation or tribe; 2a) a group of families, all those who in a given people
lay claim to a common origin; 2b) the Israelites which distributed into
twelve tribes, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob, these were divided
into families which were divided into houses; 3) family, in a wider sense, nation, people;

Accordingly to Wikipedia: Claudius Lysias is called "the tribune" (in Greek χιλίαρχος, chiliarch) 16 times within Acts 21-24. The Greek term χιλίαρχος
is said to be used to translate the Roman tribunus militum (following Polybius), and also for the phrase tribuni militares consulari potestate (Plutarch). The responsibilities of a χιλίαρχος were as a "commander of a
thousand men". Essentially, Claudius Lysias is "a high-ranking military
officer in charge" of anywhere from 600 to 1,000 men, and this appears to
be the case for it is said that his command was over a "cohort" (σπεῖρα, speira) in Jerusalem which is "the tenth part of a Roman legion having
about 600 men" [Acts 21:31]

#726 - MALE CHECKSUM TOTAL: #205 as [#5, #1, #30, #80, #10, #600] = ʼeleph (H505): {UMBRA: #111 % #41 = #29} 1) a thousand; 1a) as numeral; 2) a
thousand, company; 2a) *AS* *A* *COMPANY* *OF* *MEN* *UNDER* *ONE*
*LEADER*, *TROOPS*;

#986 - MALE CHECKSUM TOTAL: #205 as [#90, #6, #200, #80, #10, #600] =
tsâraph (H6884): {UMBRA: #370 % #41 = #1} 1) to smelt, refine, test; 1a) (Qal); 1a1) to smelt, refine; 1a2) to test; 1a3) *TO* *TEST* (*AND* *PROVE* *TRUE*); 1a4) smelter, refiner, goldsmith (participle); 1b) (Niphal) to be refined; 1c) (Piel) to be a refiner; 1c1) refiner (participle);

#497 - MALE CHECKSUM TOTAL: #205 as [#400, #1, #40, #50, #6] = ʼâman
(H539): {UMBRA: #91 % #41 = #9} 1) to support, confirm, be faithful; 1a)
(Qal); 1a1) to support, confirm, be faithful, uphold, nourish; i)
foster-father (subst.); ii) foster-mother, nurse; iii) pillars, supporters
of the door; 1a2) (Niphal); i) to be established, be faithful, be carried,
make firm; 1) to be carried by a nurse; 2) made firm, sure, lasting; 3) confirmed, established, sure; 4) verified, confirmed; 5) reliable,
faithful, trusty; ii) (Hiphil); 1) to stand firm, to trust, to be certain,
to believe in; 11) stand firm; 12) *TRUST*, *BELIEVE*;

#827 - FEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #260 as [#200, #20, #70, #300, #10, #200, #9,
#8, #10] = skotízō (G4654): {UMBRA: #1407 % #41 = #13} 1) to cover with darkness, to darken; 2) to be covered with darkness, be darkened; 2a) *OF* *HEAVENLY* *BODIES* *AS* *DEPRIVED* *OF* *LIGHT*; 2b) metaph.; 2b1) of the eyes; 2b2) of the understanding; 2b3) of the mind;

#746 - FEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #260 as [#70, #20, #200, #400, #50, #6] = ʻâkar (H5916): {UMBRA: #290 % #41 = #3} 1) *TO* *TROUBLE*, *STIR* *UP*, disturb,
make (someone) taboo; 1a) (Qal) to disturb, trouble; 1b) (Niphal); 1b1) to
be disturbed, be stirred up; 1b2) disturbance, calamity (participle);

#422 - FEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #260 as [#2, #40, #60, #80, #200, #40] = miçpâr (H4557): {UMBRA: #380 % #41 = #11} 1) number, tale; 1a) number; 1a1)
number; 1a2) innumerable (with negative); 1a3) *FEW*, *NUMERABLE*
(*ALONE*); 1a4) by count, in number, according to number (with prep); 1b) recounting, relation;

#1475 - FEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #260 as [#200, #400, #50, #1, #3, #800, #3,
#8, #10] = synagōgḗ (G4864): {UMBRA: #1465 % #41 = #30} 1) a bringing together, gathering (as of fruits), a contracting; 2) in the NT, an
assembling together of men, an assembly of men; 3) a *SYNAGOGUE*; 3a) an assembly of Jews formally gathered together to offer prayers and listen to
the reading and expositions of the scriptures; assemblies of that sort were held every sabbath and feast day, afterwards also on the second and fifth
days of every week; name transferred to an assembly of Christians formally gathered together for religious purposes; 3b) the buildings where those
solemn Jewish assemblies are held. Synagogues seem to date their origin
from the Babylonian exile. In the times of Jesus and the apostles every
town, not only in Palestine, but also among the Gentiles if it contained a considerable number of Jewish inhabitants, had at least one synagogue, the larger towns several or even many. These were also used for trials and inflicting punishment.;

#605 - ONTIC CHECKSUM TOTAL: #530 as [#5, #30, #200, #300, #70] = râshâʻ (H7563): {UMBRA: #570 % #41 = #37} 1) wicked, criminal; 1a) guilty one, one guilty of crime (subst); 1b) wicked (hostile to God); 1c) *WICKED*,
*GUILTY* *OF* *SIN* (*AGAINST* *GOD* *OR* *MAN*);

#864 - DEME CHECKSUM TOTAL: #606 as [#80, #5, #10, #200, #9, #5, #50, #300,
#5, #200] = peíthō (G3982): {UMBRA: #904 % #41 = #2} 1) persuade; 1a) to persuade, i.e. to induce one by words to believe; 1b) to make friends of,
to win one's favour, gain one's good will, or to seek to win one, strive to please one; 1c) to tranquillise; 1d) to persuade unto i.e. move or induce
one to persuasion to do something; 2) be persuaded; 2a) to be persuaded, to suffer one's self to be persuaded; to be induced to believe: to have faith:
in a thing; 2a1) *TO* *BELIEVE*; 2a2) *TO* *BE* *PERSUADED* *OF* *A*
*THING* *CONCERNING* *A* *PERSON*; 2b) to listen to, obey, yield to, comply with; 3) to trust, have confidence, be confident;

"AND THEY NEITHER FOUND ME IN THE TEMPLE DISPUTING WITH ANY MAN, NEITHER RAISING UP THE PEOPLE, NEITHER IN THE *SYNAGOGUES*-G4864, NOR IN THE CITY: NEITHER CAN THEY PROVE THE THINGS WHEREOF THEY NOW ACCUSE ME. BUT THIS I CONFESS UNTO THEE, THAT AFTER THE WAY WHICH THEY CALL HERESY, SO WORSHIP I
THE GOD OF MY FATHERS, BELIEVING ALL THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW
AND IN THE PROPHETS:

#1941 as [#600, #100, #10, #200, #300, #10, #1, #50, #70, #400, #200] = Christianós (G5546): {UMBRA: #1541 % #41 = #24} 1) *CHRISTIAN*, a follower
of Christ;

"KING AGRIPPA (reigned 41–44 AD), BELIEVEST THOU THE PROPHETS? I KNOW THAT THOU BELIEVEST. THEN AGRIPPA SAID UNTO PAUL, ALMOST THOU *PERSUADEST*-G3982
ME TO BE A *CHRISTIAN*-G5546." [Acts 26:27-28]

AND HAVE HOPE TOWARD GOD, WHICH THEY THEMSELVES ALSO ALLOW, THAT THERE
SHALL BE A RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, BOTH OF THE JUST AND UNJUST. AND
HEREIN DO I EXERCISE MYSELF, TO HAVE ALWAYS A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE
TOWARD GOD, AND TOWARD MEN... EXCEPT IT BE FOR THIS *ONE*-G3391 VOICE, THAT
I CRIED STANDING AMONG THEM, TOUCHING THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD I AM
CALLED IN QUESTION BY YOU THIS DAY.

#51 - CONSTANCY (CH'ANG) as [#40, #10, #1] = mía (G3391): {UMBRA: #51 % #41
= #10} 1) *ONLY* *ONE*, someone;

AND WHEN FELIX HEARD THESE THINGS, HAVING MORE PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF THAT
WAY, HE DEFERRED THEM, AND SAID, WHEN LYSIAS THE CHIEF CAPTAIN SHALL COME
DOWN, I WILL KNOW THE UTTERMOST OF YOUR MATTER." [Acts 24:12-16, 21-22]

An alle amerikanischen christlichen fanatiker, eure chance auf die gnaden
des himmels ist vorbei.

Raus, raus, raus

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SUBJECT WAS: Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza

NefeshBarYochai <void@invalid.noy> wrote:

The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the Gaza Strip, which is a war crime.
Israeli officials have made public statements expressing their aim to
deprive civilians in Gaza of food, water, and fuel – statements
reflected in Israeli forces’ military operations.
The Israeli government should not attack objects necessary for the
survival of the civilian population, lift its blockade of the Gaza
Strip, and restore electricity and water.
(Jerusalem) – The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians
as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip, which is a war
crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, while willfully
impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agricultural
areas, and depriving the civilian population of objects indispensable
to their survival.

Since Hamas-led fighters attacked Israel on October 7, 2023,
high-ranking Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Yoav
Gallant, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Energy
Minister Israel Katz have made public statements expressing their aim
to deprive civilians in Gaza of food, water and fuel – statements
reflecting a policy being carried out by Israeli forces. Other Israeli officials have publicly stated that humanitarian aid to Gaza would be conditioned either on the release of hostages unlawfully held by Hamas
or Hamas’ destruction.

“For over two months, Israel has been depriving Gaza's population of
food and water, a policy spurred on or endorsed by high-ranking
Israeli officials and reflecting an intent to starve civilians as a
method of warfare,” said Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at
Human Rights Watch. “World leaders should be speaking out against this abhorrent war crime, which has devastating effects on Gaza’s
population.”

Human Rights Watch interviewed 11 displaced Palestinians in Gaza
between November 24 and December 4. They described their profound
hardships in securing basic necessities. “We had no food, no
electricity, no internet, nothing at all,” said one man who had left northern Gaza. “We don’t know how we survived.”

In southern Gaza, those interviewed described the scarcity of potable
water, the lack of food leading to empty shops and lengthy lines, and exorbitant prices. “You are on a constant search for things needed to survive,” said a father of two. The United Nations World Food
Programme (WFP) reported on December 6 that 9 out of 10 households in northern Gaza and 2 out of 3 households in southern Gaza had spent at
least one full day and night without food.

International humanitarian law, or the laws of war, prohibits the
starvation of civilians as a method of warfare. The Rome Statute of
the International Criminal Court provides that intentionally starving civilians by “depriving them of objects indispensable to their
survival, including willfully impeding relief supplies” is a war
crime. Criminal intent does not require the attacker’s admission but
can also be inferred from the totality of the circumstances of the
military campaign.

In addition, Israel’s continuing blockade of Gaza, as well as its more
than 16-year closure, amounts to collective punishment of the civilian population, a war crime. As the occupying power in Gaza under the
Fourth Geneva Convention, Israel has the duty to ensure that the
civilian population gets food and medical supplies.

On November 17, the WFP warned of the “immediate possibility” of starvation, highlighting that supplies of food and water were
practically non-existent. On December 3, it reported a “high risk of famine,” indicating that Gaza’s food system was on the brink of
collapse. And on December 6, it declared that 48 percent of households
in northern Gaza and 38 percent of displaced people in southern Gaza
had experienced “severe levels of hunger.”

On November 3, the Norwegian Refugee Council announced that Gaza was grappling with “catastrophic water, sanitation, and hygiene needs.” Wastewater and desalination facilities were shut down in mid-October
due to fuel and electricity shortages and have been largely inoperable
since, according to the Palestinian Water Authority. Even before
October 7, according to the UN, Gaza had virtually no potable water.

Prior to the current hostilities, 1.2 million of Gaza’s 2.2 million
people were estimated to be facing acute food insecurity, and over 80
percent were reliant on humanitarian aid. Israel maintains overarching control over Gaza, including over the movement of people and goods, territorial waters, airspace, the infrastructure upon which Gaza
relies, as well as the registry of the population. This leaves Gaza’s population, which Israel has subjected to an unlawful closure for 16
years, almost entirely dependent on Israel for access to fuel,
electricity, medicine, food, and other essential commodities.

After the imposition of a “total blockade” on Gaza on October 9,
Israeli authorities resumed piping water to some parts of southern
Gaza on October 15 and, as of October 21, allowed limited humanitarian
aid to arrive through the Rafah crossing with Egypt. Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on October 18 that Israel would not
allow humanitarian assistance “in the form of food and medicines” into
Gaza through its crossings “as long as our hostages are not returned.”

The government continued to block the entry of fuel until November 15, despite warnings about the serious consequences of doing so, leading
to the shutdown of bakeries, hospitals, sewage pumping stations, water desalination plants, and wells. These facilities, which have been left unusable, are indispensable to the civilian population’s survival.
Although limited amounts of fuel were subsequently allowed in, on
December 4, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied
Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings, called it “utterly
insufficient.” On December 6, Israel’s war cabinet approved a
“minimal” increase in fuel supplies to southern Gaza.

On December 1, immediately after the seven-day ceasefire, the Israeli military resumed bombing Gaza and expanded its ground offensive,
stating that its military operations in the south would carry “no less strength” than in the north. While United States officials said that
they urged Israel to allow fuel and humanitarian aid to enter Gaza at
the same levels observed during the ceasefire, the Defense Ministry’s coordinator of government activities in the territories said on
December 1 that it halted all aid entry. Limited aid deliveries
resumed on December 2, but still at grossly insufficient levels,
according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA).

Alongside the crushing blockade, the Israeli military’s extensive
airstrikes in the strip have resulted in widespread damage or
destruction to objects necessary for the survival of the civilian
population.

UN experts said on November 16 that the significant damage “threatens
to make the continuation of Palestinian life in Gaza impossible.”
Notably, Israeli forces’ bombing of Gaza’s last operational wheat mill
on November 15 ensures that locally produced flour will be unavailable
in Gaza for the foreseeable future, as highlighted by OCHA.
Additionally, the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) said that the decimation of road networks had made it more difficult for
humanitarian organizations to deliver aid to those who need it.

“Bakeries and grain mills have been destroyed, agriculture, water and sanitation facilities,” Scott Paul, a senior humanitarian policy
adviser for Oxfam America, told the Associated Press on November 23.

Israel’s military actions in Gaza have also had a devastating impact
on Gaza’s agricultural sector. The sustained bombardment, coupled with
fuel and water shortages, alongside the displacement of more than 1.6
million people to southern Gaza, has made farming nearly impossible, according to Oxfam. In a report from November 28, OCHA said that
livestock in the north are facing starvation due to the shortage of
fodder and water, and that crops are increasingly abandoned and
damaged due to lack of fuel to pump irrigation water. Existing
problems, such as water scarcity and restricted access to farming land
near the border fence, have compounded the difficulties faced by local farmers, many of whom are displaced. On November 28, the Palestinian
Central Bureau of Statistics said that Gaza is suffering from at least
a US$1.6 million daily loss in farm production.

On November 28, the Palestine Food Security Sector, led by the WFP and
the Food and Agriculture Organization, reported that over a third of agricultural land in the north had been damaged in the hostilities.
Satellite imagery reviewed by Human Rights Watch indicates that since
the start of the Israeli military's ground offensive on October 27, agricultural land, including orchards, greenhouses, and farmland in
northern Gaza, has been razed, apparently by Israeli forces.

The Israeli government should immediately cease using starvation of
civilians as a method of warfare, Human Rights Watch said. It should
abide by the prohibition on attacks on objects necessary for the
survival of the civilian population and lift its blockade of the Gaza
Strip. The government should restore water and electricity access, and
allow desperately needed food, medical aid, and fuel into Gaza,
including via its crossing at Kerem Shalom.

Concerned governments should call on Israel to end these abuses. The
United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and other
countries should also suspend military assistance and arms sales to
Israel as long as its forces continue to commit widespread and serious
abuses amounting to war crimes against civilians with impunity.

“The Israeli government is compounding its collective punishment of Palestinian civilians and the blocking of humanitarian aid by its
cruel use of starvation as a weapon of war,” Shakir said. “The
deepening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza calls for an urgent and
effective response from the international community.”

Background
The Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel on October 7 killed at least
1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals, with more than 200 people taken hostage, acts amounting to war crimes. The resulting Israeli
bombardment and ground offensive resulted in more than 18,700
Palestinians killed, including more than 7,700 children, according to
Gaza authorities.

OCHA reported that by December 10, the Israeli military’s bombardment
of the Gaza strip had destroyed more than half of the civilian
infrastructure in Gaza, including more than 50,000 housing units, as
provided by the Ministry of Public Works and Housing in Gaza, as well
as hospitals, schools, mosques, bakeries, water pipes, sewage, and electricity networks. On November 4 and 5 alone, according to OCHA,
seven water facilities across the Gaza Strip were directly hit and
sustained major damage, including water reservoirs in Gaza City, the
Jabalia refugee camp, and Rafah.

The Israeli military’s repeated, apparently unlawful attacks on
medical facilities, personnel, and transport are further destroying
Gaza’s healthcare sector, thereby affecting the population’s ability
to access life-saving treatment, including to prevent diseases,
wasting, and deaths linked to malnutrition, exacerbating the dire ramifications of starvation. “We will see more people dying from
disease than from bombardment if we are not able to put back together
this health system,” the World Health Organization's Margaret Harris
said on November 28.

Humanitarian Consequences
On October 13, Israeli authorities issued an order for more than a
million people to evacuate northern Gaza within 24 hours – an order
that was impossible to comply with. Since then, and as conditions in
the north worsened, hundreds of thousands have been displaced to Rafah
and Khan Younis governorates in the south, where it has become
increasingly difficult to secure the means to survive. Under
international humanitarian law, evacuations must be carried out under conditions that ensure those displaced have access to unimpeded
humanitarian aid, including sufficient food and work, otherwise they
may amount to forcible displacement. Evacuations that would increase
the likelihood of starvation are prohibited.

The humanitarian consequences of Israel’s military actions in Gaza
have been severe. During the first eight weeks of hostilities,
northern Gaza was the focus of the Israeli military’s intense air and, later, ground offensive. Except for the seven-day ceasefire that began
on November 24, during which UN convoys brought in limited quantities
of flour and high-energy biscuits, aid access to the north had been
largely severed. Between November 7 and at least November 15, none of
the bakeries in the north were operational due to the lack of fuel,
water, wheat flour, and structural damage, according to OCHA.

According to the WFP, there is a serious risk of starvation and famine
in Gaza. UN officials have said that 1.9 million people, over 85
percent of Gaza's population, are internally displaced, adding that
the conditions in an ever-shrinking southern area of the Gaza strip
could become “even more hellish.”

UN aid chief Martin Griffiths stated on December 5 that the Israeli
military campaign in southern Gaza had led to “apocalyptic”
conditions, making meaningful humanitarian operations impossible.

As of December 6, the only water desalination plant in northern Gaza
was nonfunctional and the pipeline supplying water to the north from
Israel remained closed, increasing the risk of dehydration and
waterborne diseases arising from the consumption of water from unsafe sources. Hospitals have been particularly hard hit, with only 1 of 24 hospitals in northern Gaza functional and able to admit new patients, although services are limited, as of December 14.

Across Gaza, the humanitarian crisis deepened with a persistent
electricity blackout since October 11 as well as several
communications shutdowns that denied people access to reliable safety information, emergency medical services, and severely hindered
humanitarian operations, with OCHA saying on November 18 that the telecommunications blackout between November 16 and 18, the fourth
such blackout since October 7, “brought the already challenging
delivery of humanitarian assistance to an almost complete halt,
including life-saving assistance to people injured or trapped under
the rubble as a result of airstrikes and clashes.” Another telecommunications blackout took place on December 14.

Since the beginning of the Israeli military’s ground offensive on
October 27, satellite imagery reviewed by Human Rights Watch indicates
that orchards, greenhouses, and farmland in northern Gaza have been
razed, apparently by Israeli forces, compounding concerns of dire food insecurity and loss of livelihood. Satellite imagery indicates that

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