A panel of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification committee (IPC) released an alarming report on Thursday. The IPC panel said that urgent steps must be taken by concerned countries to avert mass starvation “within days not weeks.” Although U.S. television news has firmly swept Gaza under the rug, the campaign against its civilians of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ongoing. On Saturday morning, an Israeli airstrike on a house in Jabalia killed 32 Palestinians, bring the death toll to 44 just in the early morning alone.
Some 70% of those killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been women and children, according to UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR). Counting confirmed deaths, the US said that Israeli forces killed eighty percent in residential buildings. CNN reports that OHCHR announced that it had found a consistent pattern of “high numbers of babies and young children, women, older persons, and families killed together in residential buildings.”