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It's Time for the Whole Truth on the UN's Declaration of Famine in Gaza
(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - When it comes to military might, the IDF is unstoppable. As Benjamin Netanyahu pointed out last week, Hamas would have been defeated without a single Israeli casualty if Jerusalem hadn't striven to limit Palestinian civilian deaths. With the UN officially declaring famine in Gaza, we are being asked to believe that the privations match the other internationally recognized famines of this century, in South Sudan, Sudan and Somalia. This seems unlikely, given that 10,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza since May, 2,300 boxes have been dropped from the air, and more than 2.2 million family food parcels have been handed out weekly. Look at what people are posting in Gaza on Snapchat in real time. Pockets of hunger there may be, but Somalia this is not. True, distribution has been a grim challenge. This is, after all, a war zone. There have been cases of malnutrition. Yet even before the war, this was so; that is what happens to the poorest when a society is ruled by incompetent jihadis.