Israel Restricts Visas to Aid Groups Supporting Palestinians
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UN Expert Claims Israel is Deliberately Starving Palestinians
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The Spin
Pro-Palestine narrative
Things have gotten so bad in Gaza that we are now seeing the worst levels of food insecurity ever recorded by the UN. A quarter of the population is close to famine and one-in-six children under two face acute malnutrition and wasting. A cease-fire needs to be reached to prevent this man-made catastrophe from continuing.
Pro-Israel narrative
Israel vehemently rejects the accusations of genocide being banded about by officials. Genocide is a strict legal term and Israel's actions in Gaza do not come close to meeting that standard. Watering down the definition only harms the real victims of genocide. Besides, it is Hamas that has vowed to wipe out Israel and the country has a legal right to defend itself against such actions.