Chat GPT assures me there is famine in Gaza, and when I look at the photographs I am reminded of the rich fields and orchards I used to see there.  All are gone – and even though the people don’t look as thin as people, say, in Sudan, the sand and rubble make me feel that no matter how many trucks arrive at the distribution points, the self respect that is essential to any folk is impossible to achieve if they cannot feed themselves.  

On the other hand the NCRI’s research seems to prove in ” Starving for the Truth: Fraud, Famine, and the Collapse of Rigor in IPC’s Gaza Declaration” that famine is a political tool.