Humanity crisis: Hunger, starvation, and death in the Gaza Strip

 

Starving children in Gaza

Thousands of people in Gaza are in danger of mass famine, and children are severely malnourished, indicating that the humanitarian situation has deteriorated to a dangerous level. The world must act immediately.

 

Leaders of industrialized nations are always vying with one another to be the world's greatest nation, or what they call a superpower. However, when it comes to their incapacity to prevent conflict, you will admit their shortcomings.

 

They were unable to stop the conflict between Russia and Ukraine or the conflict between  Israel and Palestine. Human crisis amid malnutrition and hunger is the outcome.

 

Negotiation teams between the US and Israel have left Gaza in an attempt to achieve a truce, and due to the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, Europe is putting more pressure on Israel, while the Palestinians endure widespread starvation.

 

Donald Trump has finally acknowledged that the Palestinian enclave is indeed starving, ordering Israel to send Gaza every last bit of food. The US president chastised Benjamin Netanyahu during a trip to the UK after the Jewish state's prime minister referred to the accusation that Israel is creating famine in Gaza as a blatant lie.

 

The UN and other humanitarian organizations blame Israel's embargo of nearly all humanitarian supplies entering the country for the dozens of Palestinians who have starved to death in recent weeks, putting increasing pressure on Trump to step in and address the humanitarian catastrophe.

 

Children are dying from malnutrition, and those who are still alive are being starved to death. Mothers are also going through hardships as they search frantically for food for their kids. Witnessing children struggling to survive on food alone with their parents is beyond human comprehension. How much longer can this continue? 

MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND CORRUPT AFRICAN LEADERSHIP

Corruption cartoon in Africa

When a government in Africa is corrupt, there are also some MNCs and their shareholders who stand behind this government and push it to become more corrupt.


Whenever a government becomes autocratic, denying its citizens freedoms and rights, there are MNCs behind providing weapons to exact violence against its people.

Whenever there is a corrupt politician in Africa stealing money meant for schools, hospitals, roads, and the delivery of safe water and sanitation, you have a big MNC bank assisting in the transfer of the money to haven destinations.

This cozy relationship between the political and business elite in Africa and MNCs in Europe and North America not only affects governance, but it is one of the main reasons why economic underachievement, poverty, hunger, and instability permeate almost all African countries.

The parasites who parade themselves as leaders of the continent have for over the years, colluded and connived with MNC vampires who, since the days of slavery, have been the main instrument used by Western countries to strip Africa of its rich resources and to keep its inhabitants desperately poor.

Global Witness has produced documents that have implicated American, Belgian, British, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese firms and business entities. 

The dirty tactics employed by Western governments, the MNCs, the World Bank, the IMF, WTO are responsible for the demise of the African continent. Western countries, led by the US, Britain, France, and lately by China, continue to sell weapons to horrible dictators to crush democratic forces throughout the continent.

They continued to finance brutal wars in Africa ( Libya, Somalia, Ivory Coast, DRC) to keep Africa destabilized while their corporations steal the natural resources such as oil, gas, gold, and other precious metals, complicit with the Western media.

In a similar vein, Global Financial Integrity has demonstrated how Western MNCs working in Africa used fraud accounting, tax evasion, and other financial malpractices to cheat Africans of the billions of dollars that could be used to develop the continent.

IMF and World Bank, on their part, are in cahoots with MNCs and Western creditors to sell their toxic economic policies and poisonous, heavily laden conditional loans to African countries that keep them in odious debts that they spend so much of their GDP in servicing them, to the neglect of the human security needs of their people.

Switzerland, hiding behind its discredited illegal financial and banking secrecy laws and infrastructure, continues to play host to more than $150 billion that is siphoned off from the continent annually by the political and business leaders.

Read more: http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=57161&dir=2016/january/22.

HEALTH MATTERS: MORE DEATH BY OBESITY THAN HUNGER

Obesity


Do you know that the rate of people dying worldwide, of excessive eating, is higher than the death rate of people killed by hunger because they don’t have much to eat? 


Following the report filed by ‘The World Disaster Report,’ it is estimated that more than 1.5 million people worldwide are suffering from overweight problems, medically known as obesity. According to the report, Obesity is generally common in Europe, the United States of America, and the Middle East.

The report further states that even though hunger affects Asia and Africa, many people in those continents don’t die as much from hunger as those who have too much to eat. 

The report defines hunger as not having enough food to eat. Around the world, it is estimated that thousands of people are facing hunger. 

Many people also suffer from hunger because they have no money to buy food. The scarcity of the commodity causes inflation and increases the price of commodities.

For example, in Kenya, the price of maize has increased over the past year by 180 percent. That is a dramatic development if you know that 80% of income in the developing countries goes into only food. 

“More than a third of the food produced in the world ends up not in the mouths of starving people. Half of the annual harvested grain is processed into biofuel or fodder.” The report states.

Food is delicious, but that doesn’t mean that people must eat excessively to destroy themselves. What is the significance of causing much suffering to yourself when you know that too much of everything has a negative consequence? 

One could always avoid going to the gym, to waste money and time by shedding off extra pounds, when you eat the right food.