The World Food Program warns that a famine in Gaza is “getting closer by the day.” A United Nations-backed report says it’s “imminent.” With food, fuel, and medicine all in short supply, who is responsible for providing aid to the millions of displaced Gazans?
FP’s Ravi Agrawal sat down with two experts on the humanitarian emergency in Gaza: Sari Bashi, the program director of Human Rights Watch, and Shira Efron, Israel Policy Forum’s research director.
Video clips from this event
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Sari Bashi, the program director for Human Rights Watch, tells FP’s Ravi Agrawal about the dire situation for Palestinians sheltering in Rafah right now, including some of her own family members.
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Shira Efron details how aid to Gaza has increased in recent weeks. But will that suffice to prevent famine? Does it indicate a substantial policy shift from the Israeli government? Efron and Bashi debate.
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Human rights activist Sari Bashi argues that Israel already knows what kinds of policies it needs to enact—from bringing in food itself to facilitating aid organizations’ delivery—to meet the obligations laid out by the International Court of Justice. But, she says, it is “a problem of political will.”
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Shira Efron says ensuring that more aid reaches Palestinians in Gaza is in Israel’s strategic interests: “Israel started the war as Ukraine, and seven months after, it’s Russia.”
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Shira Efron and Sari Bashi look ahead to suggest different futures for Gaza, one that would allow for reconstruction and agency for Palestinians.
