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Hasson, Nir; Yaniv, Kubovich (2024-11-11). "The Israeli Army Is Allowing Gangs in Gaza to Loot Aid Trucks and Extort Protection Fees From Drivers". www.haaretz.com Haaretz. Archived from the original on 2024-11-19. …looting of the convoys reflects the complete anarchy that prevails in Gaza due to the lack of any functioning civilian government. … Defense officials confirmed that the IDF is aware of the problem. (the Israeli government) considered making the clans to which the armed men belong responsible for distributing aid to Gaza's residents, even though some of the clans' members are involved in terrorism, and some are even affiliated with extremist organizations like the Islamic State.
Nick Spicer (21 November 2024). "The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant". www.npr.org NPR. Retrieved 21 November 2024. Israel rejects the court's allegations, which include the use of starvation as a weapon of war and "intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population." The ICC also issued a warrant Thursday for the arrest of Muhammad Deif, Hamas' military chief.
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The estimate of 62,413+ deaths in the infobox should be removed in accordance with the RfC at Gaza genocide: RfC about starvation estimate. The RfC participants rejected using this estimate in the infobox.
The RFC closing statement:
"There is a consensus to exclude the estimate from the infobox. Editors generally agreed that the statistic is too extraordinary to justify its inclusion on the basis of the sources available in an infobox, whose purpose is to summarize key facts and is a notoriously poor means of conveying anything requiring explanation."
This was applied to both the Gaza war and Gaza genocide page and I don't see why it shouldn't cover this article too. There is also quite alot of archived threads on talk regarding this specific estimate and there was consensus to not include. Regards 94.30.2.19 (talk) 11:56, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi you! You made a valid point and I have removed the number from the infobox. However, there is also the section Gaza_Strip_famine#Number_of_deaths in the article. The second paragraph also mentions this number of 62,413 deaths. I don't know what to do with that paragraph? Remove it completely? But it is sourced. Please other editors, weigh in! Lova Falk (talk) 17:35, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We should keep it in the article, the RfC only decided it was too extraordinary to be in the infobox (which I find is very dubious). Thanks, Yung Doohickey (talk) 18:50, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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As seen from outcomes related to famine and used by the IPC manual, there's no famine in gaza. the criteria arent met. death rate from starvation is lower than that of indonesia and lower middle income countries. acute malnutrition is lower than that of indonesia (a country with no mass man made famine).
The causality presented in the first paragraph is not just a one-sided except from the source, it doesn’t make any sense. Namely, the stance that the [supposed] famine is caused by Israeli air strikes. How on earth would air strikes cause famine? Yes, I get that this is claimed in the article, but the claim is just so dumb that it shouldn’t even be in the article. We don’t know what causes the famine, but it’s sure as hell not air strikes. It might be Israel blocking off gazas aid. But the way it’s written there makes no sense Finn Fuenffarbflecktarn (talk) 22:20, 31 July 2025 (UTC)collapse bottom}}[reply]
