Population control

Palestinians jostling for food outside a charity kitchen in western Gaza City on Friday.
Credit...Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

Population control, you know, starve em to reduce the population works, right? Well, it seems the Israelis are testing that notion to the max as they begin removing or starving Palestinians living in Gaza in order to take over the enclave and turn it into a resort for incoming settlers. It's the right thing to do, right?

Gaza City and the surrounding territory are officially suffering from famine, a global group of experts announced on Friday, nearly two years into an unrelenting war in which Israel has blocked most food and other aid from entering the Gaza Strip.

The group, which the United Nations and aid agencies rely on to monitor and classify global hunger crises, said that at least half a million people in Gaza Governorate were facing the most severe conditions it measures: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.

With rare exceptions, the rest of Gaza’s total population of two million people was also struggling with severe hunger, according to the group, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, which is made up of food insecurity experts who monitor world hunger.

For many of those people, the group said, conditions were likely to worsen, sending two additional governorates farther south — Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis — into an official famine by the end of September.