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<\/a>Photo via the Freedom Flotilla Coalition<\/p>\nThe vessel was carrying baby formula, diapers, medicine, and food to Gaza, where some 2 million Palestinians have suffered from Israeli-imposed starvation, malnutrition, and deprivation of essential needs.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military did not immediately comment. <\/p>\n
Conditions in Gaza have dramatically worsened in recent weeks. More than 125 Palestinians, including over 80 children, have died from malnutrition, according to Palestinian health authorities.<\/p>\n
Last week, Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, said<\/a> that Israel\u2019s behavior in Gaza constitutes a meticulously planned campaign of mass starvation<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I’ve been working on this topic for more than four decades, and there is no case since World War II of starvation that is being so minutely designed and controlled,” de Waal told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n “This is preventable starvation. It is entirely man-made,” de Waal added. “And every stage of this has been predicted, and at every stage action could have been taken\u2014by Israel, by the international authorities, [the] international community, those who back Israel\u2014to prevent what is happening now… Those steps have simply not been taken.”<\/p>\n Israeli forces have killed over 1,000 people seeking aid at so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites. Victims, US contractors<\/a>, and Israeli soldiers<\/a> have all attested<\/a> to the notion that Israeli forces have deliberately shot at the aid seekers. <\/p>\n The 20 people aboard the Handala, and their nationalities:<\/p>\n Ange Sahuquet \u2013 France<\/p>\n Braedon Peluso \u2013 United States<\/p>\n Christian (Chris) Smalls \u2013 United States<\/p>\n Huwaida Arraf \u2013 United States (and Palestinian\/Israel)<\/p>\n Jacob Berger \u2013 United States<\/p>\n Justine Kempf \u2013 France<\/p>\n Robert Martin \u2013 Australia<\/p>\n Vigdis (Vigidis) Bjorvand \u2013 Norway<\/p>\n Chlo\u00e9 Fiona Ludden \u2013 United Kingdom\/France<\/p>\n Antonio Mazzeo \u2013 Italy<\/p>\n Antonio La Picirella \u2013 Italy<\/p>\n Tan\u202fSafi \u2013 Australia<\/p>\n Hatem Aouini \u2013 Tunisia<\/p>\n Gabrielle Cathala \u2013 France<\/p>\n Emma Fourreau \u2013 France\/Sweden<\/p>\n Frank Romano \u2013 United States\/France<\/p>\n Bob (Suberi) Suberi \u2013 United States<\/p>\n Santiago Gonz\u00e1lez Vallejo \u2013 Spain<\/p>\n Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed El Bakkali \u2013 Morocco <\/p>\n Al Jazeera journalist Waad Al Musa \u2013 Iraq\/United States<\/p>\n The \u201cHandala\u201d ship is named for the well-known cartoon figure<\/a> that symbolizes the Palestinian people, their struggle, and resistance to Israel’s occupation.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Have a tip for Prem? Send via email<\/a> or Signal (premthakker.35).<\/p>\n Check out more Zeteo:<\/p>\n‘You Cannot Destroy a People Without First Destroying Their Healers’: Israel\u2019s War on Gaza’s Medical System<\/a>Why Was There More Outrage for Colbert’s Cancellation Than for 2 Million Palestinians Starving in Gaza?<\/a>More Babies Will Have Starved to Death in Gaza By the Time You Read This Essay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli forces intercepted the Gaza Aid Flotilla ship, the \u201cHandala,\u201d minutes before midnight local time on Saturday and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-26742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}