THE WORLD THINKS THERES A PICNIC GOING ON IN GAZA. STUPID LUNATICS ITS A WAR.AND YOU POUR SALT ON LEECHES TO GET THEM OFF YOUR BODY. NOBODY IS FORCING RUSSIA TO GIVE FOOD AID TO THE UKRAINIANS. THIS IS COMPLETE BLAME ISRAEL WHEN ITS HAMAS AND THE MEDIA AND THE LEECH ARABS PUTTING ON A GREAT DELUSION.

THE WORLD THINKS THERES A PICNIC GOING ON IN GAZA. STUPID LUNATICS ITS A WAR.AND YOU POUR SALT ON LEECHES TO GET THEM OFF YOUR BODY. NOBODY IS FORCING RUSSIA TO GIVE FOOD AID TO THE UKRAINIANS. THIS IS COMPLETE BLAME ISRAEL WHEN ITS HAMAS AND THE MEDIA AND THE LEECH ARABS PUTTING ON A GREAT DELUSION.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

THE WORLD THINKS THERES A PICNIC GOING ON IN GAZA. STUPID LUNATICS ITS A WAR.AND YOU POUR SALT ON LEECHES TO GET THEM OFF YOUR BODY. NOBODY IS FORCING RUSSIA TO GIVE FOOD AID TO THE UKRAINIANS. THIS IS COMPLETE BLAME ISRAEL WHEN ITS HAMAS AND THE MEDIA AND THE LEECH ARABS PUTTING ON A GREAT DELUSION. 

And here are the bounderies of the land that Israel will inherit either through war or peace or God in the future. God says its Israels land and only Israels land. They will have every inch God promised them of this land in the future.
Egypt east of the Nile River, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, The southern part of Turkey and the Western Half of Iraq west of the Euphrates. Gen 13:14-15, Psm 105:9,11, Gen 15:18, Exe 23:31, Num 34:1-12, Josh 1:4.ALL THIS LAND ISRAEL WILL DEFINATELY OWN IN THE FUTURE, ITS ISRAELS NOT ISHMAELS LAND.12 TRIBES INHERIT LAND IN THE FUTURE.

Joel 3:2-King James Version (YOU DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF - YOUR POKING GOD IN THE EYE - GOD SAYS AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH- YOU WANNA DIVIDE JERUSALEM IN HALF -  HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION 4 BILLION DIE ON EARTH.
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

FIRST YOU JACK ASS (DONKEY AHAB THE ARAB CAMEL BOYS). GET OFF ISRAELS LAND, YOU BUNCH OF USELESS EATING LEETCHES SUCK HOLED UP BY THE BRAIN-DEAD LIBERAL MEDIA. WHY DON'T THEM LUNATIC ARABS GO TO EGYPT WHEN THE GATES OPEN FOR AID TO THE COCKROACH LEECH ARABS. WHY AREN'T THESE SO CALLED STARVING IDIOTS GETTING THE HELL OFF ISRAELS  LAND. GET TO EGYPT, JORDAN, IRAQ, SAUDI-ARABIA. JUST ARAB PUPPETS OR USEFULL IDIOTS TO BLAME ISRAEL FOR EVERYTHING. THAT THE MEDIA AND HAMAS SETS UP TO MAKE ISRAEL LOOK BAD. WELL THAT JORDAN VALLEY IS GONNA BE FILLED WITH THEM ARABS IN GAZA AND THE WESTBANK. VERY SHORTLY. AND THESE ARABS WILL BE THE FOOD FOR THE ANIMALS AND 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO FEAST ON. NOT LIKE NOW THE ARABS, LIBERAL MEDIA CRYING FOWL FOR FOOD. THESE FOOLISH IDIOT FOOLS ARE GONNA PAY BIG TIME FOR BLAMING ISRAEL FOR THIS. THE LIBERALS CLAIME 600,000 ARAB NUTJOB PUPPETS HAVE DIED IN GAZA SINCE THE OCT 7TH SLAUGHTER OF THE ISRAELIS BY HAMAS PEDOPHILIA DEATH CULT USELESS MURDERERS. WELL HOW ABOUT 300 MILLION OF YOU USELESS PUPPETS ARE GONNA BE BIRD SEED FOR THE ANIMALS AND MIGRATING BIRDS WHEN ISRAEL NUKES YOU JACK ASS DEATH CULT ARABS INTO HELL FIRE AND TORMENT. AND THEN YOUR FINAL JUDGEMENT AFTER YOU NUTJOB DELUDED CULTISTS STAND IN FRONT OF JESUS TO BE JUDGED. THEN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER. WITH YOUR NEVER DYING BODIES FOREVER. WITH YOUR FATHER AND YOUR GOD SATAN. THEN USE CAN COMPLAIN FOREVER ABOUT STARVING. BECAUSE THERES NO EATING OR DRINKING ANYTHING IN HELL FIRE. NO STRENGTH JUST DEMONS PULLING YOUR JACK ASS SELVES OUT OF THE LAKE OF FIRE. TO TORTURE YOU JACK ASS SELVES. MAYBE CHOP YOU TO BITS. WERE YOU WILL FEEL EVERY INCH OF PAIN FROM THAT KNIFE, SWORD OR WATEVER ELSE THESE DEMONS CHOP YOU TO BITS WITH. THEN THEY THROW THE PIECES OF YOUR BODY BACK INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. WERE SINCE YOUR BODY NEVER DIES. IT WILL COME BACK TOGETHER AND YOU WILL FEEL EVER INCH OF THAT PAIN. AND THESE DEMONS CAN DO THIS TO YOU WHENEVER THEY WANT. MAYBE RAPE YOUR ASSES BY 50 DEMONS. AND THE LESBIEN MEN HATERS WHO ARE IN HELL AND THE LAKE OF FIRE WILL LOVE TO BE RAPPED BY 50 DEMONS OR MORE. BEFORE THESE DEMONS THROW HER BACK IN THE LAKE. I WONDER HOW PROUD THESE LESBIENS AND GAYS WILL BE TO BE CUT TO BITS AND THROWN BACK INTO THE NEVER DYING BODY OF THEIRS LAKE OF FIRE. AND LIKE I SAY ONCE AGAIN. THIS IS NEVER ENDING. SO DON'T SAY YOU GAYS WERE NEVER WARNED WHAT WILL BE HAPPENING TO USE FOREVER. THE SECOND USE DIE AS GAYS. YOU HAVE JUST READ IT HERE.

AND JOINING THESE GAYS WILL BE ALL ARAB, MUSLIMS WHO WORSHIP SATAN.WHICH IS EVER PERSON THAT BELIEVES THE KORAN.LIARS, MURDERERS, PEDOPHILES, AND ANY SEX SINNERS.PLUS. AND DON'T FORGET THE PEACE PIPE SMOKIN INDIANS WHO WORSHIP ANIMALS AND THE ENVIROMENT. AS WELL AS THE NEW AGE CULTS AND ALL THE REINCARNATION CULTS. POT BELLY BUHDDA CULTTO DAHLI LAMA.HINDU GURU CULTS AND ALL I MISSED HERE.ALL THESE WILL BE LIVING IN THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER WITH THEIR FATHER AND GOD SATAN. 

THESE BULL DUNG LIES AGAINST ISRAEL. AND THE WORLD WILL PAY BUT GREAT. REMEMBER THESE ARABS WANNA DIE FOR SATAN THEY SHOULD WANNA STARVE THEMSELVES. AND IN 3 DAYS NUKE THEM INTO HELL FIRE FOREVER.

The Gaza Famine Myth-How lazy journalism, bad data, and skewed statistics fueled accusations of war crimes against Israel.By Michael Ames - May 9, 2025

“Gaza Is Starving,” a headline in The New Yorker declared in early January 2024, pushing a harrowing narrative that took hold during the first six months of the war. In March, The Washington Post asked: “Is Gaza Heading Into Famine?” A headline in the Post the next day answered: “Israel’s War on Hamas Brings Famine to Gaza.”In April 2024, Samantha Power, director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the Biden administration, became the first senior U.S. official to declare that famine in Gaza had begun. She cited a report published by an independent, United Nations–affiliated monitoring system, called the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Global Initiative (IPC).First developed in 2004 with backing from the UN, the IPC has become the global gold standard for food security analysis. Using a data-driven, evidence-based, five-phase scale that ticks up as food supplies run low, the IPC is designed to shield the humanitarian goal of having enough to eat from the political pressures of war. Today, a famine is declared only when the IPC’s data about a region shows that at least 20 percent of households have run out of food, at least 30 percent of children are acutely malnourished, and two people out of every 10,000 are dying each day from starvation.In 20 years, just four famines have been confirmed by the IPC: Somalia in 2011, South Sudan in 2017 and 2020, and Sudan in 2024. A confirmed famine in Gaza, as Power told Congress was happening, would have been a historic catastrophe and the first to occur outside continental Africa. Power’s statement bolstered claims that Israel was using starvation as a weapon of war, and that the U.S. government was therefore complicit in an alleged war crime.But there were serious problems with Power’s sensational testimony. Foremost among them: The IPC never declared a famine in Gaza. The report she cited was a projection of possible outcomes, not a conclusive finding. The next month, USAID issued its own analysis alleging that famine was underway, an indictment so serious that it required confirmation from an independent board of global experts known as the Famine Review Committee (FRC).The FRC, which functions as the IPC’s final authority and quality control check, rebuked the USAID analysis, calling its conclusions insupportable. The failures were stunning.Private sector food deliveries, such as trucks contracted to commercial warehouses, were left out of the agency’s estimates of the total food supply in north Gaza. As a result, as much as 82 percent of the “daily kilocalorie requirement” in northern Gaza last April wasn’t counted. In the same month, USAID’s famine monitor also left out 940 metric tons (2 million pounds) of flour, sugar, salt, and yeast donated by the UN to bakeries in north Gaza, enough to make about 1,400 metric tons (3 million pounds) of bread.Famine—like genocide, fascist, and dictator—is a word susceptible to rhetorical abuse that can dilute and even invert its meaning.When asked about erasing the bakery donations, USAID’s internal famine-monitoring network justified the decision on the grounds that bread from those bakeries had been sold rather than given away for free.It was never in doubt that the Israel-Hamas war brought immense human suffering to Gaza, including from food shortages. But USAID depicted a world that had little in common with reality.North Gaza actually had 10 times more food last April than USAID had claimed. These findings should have been big news. As aid shipments increased, a famine had been averted.But a troubling thing happened to the FRC report: Its conclusions were ignored or went unnoticed by news organizations—and other UN officials made it sound like nothing had changed.Food insecurity is not the only gauge of the war’s toll that now looks shakier than it did at first. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry recently deleted at least 3,400 deaths, including more than 1,000 children, from its lists of civilians killed by Israeli air strikes, according to nonprofit news watchdog HonestReporting.The health ministry’s own statistics chief said some of the reported deaths had actually been from natural causes, or were people found to be in prison or missing. Yet the Hamas-run health ministry remains a go-to news source, despite significant errors found in its casualty reports by independent monitors.USAID’s Famine Early Warning Systems Network was suspended in January when the Trump administration moved to close USAID and fold it into the State Department.There were many hints that the headlines about famine in Gaza last year weren’t quite right. On social media in March 2024, one food importer showcased a tractor trailer full of frozen chicken, and a chef in Rafah advertised his plates of chicken and rice. One Gaza City restaurant showed off its racks of stuffed rotisserie chickens about two weeks after Power’s testimony.Journalists can peruse a social media archive of life in Gaza compiled by Jacqui Peleg, an Israeli-British citizen who speaks Arabic and has been scraping YouTube, Telegram, TikTok, and other sites since 2018.Posting on X under the name Imshin, Peleg has gained nearly 80,000 followers who are curious about the conflict’s complexities and skeptical of media narratives. After watching Gazans posting their new BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes on Instagram for years, the opening of an upscale car dealership in August 2023 didn’t surprise her. “I just watch Gazans talk to each other,” she told me. “I’m not a journalist. I’m just watching and sharing.”Last June, the FRC’s panel of independent experts released a follow-up report reaffirming famine was a serious risk in Gaza but saying that “available evidence does not indicate that famine is currently occurring.”That same week, Reuters ran an elaborately produced feature which, along with ghoulish cartoon simulations of a dying child, strongly implied that a famine was underway in Gaza. An erroneous CNN headline said: “Children Are Dying of Starvation in Their Parents’ Arms as Famine Spreads Through Gaza.”Clear messages from the UN last summer might have helped. Instead, 11 independent UN officials, led by Michael Fakhri, the special rapporteur on the right to food, said in July that an “intentional and targeted starvation campaign” by Israel “has resulted in famine across all of Gaza.” The denunciation was covered around the world. Fakhri couldn’t be reached by The Free Press.In August 2024, the FRC confirmed that an actual famine was killing people in Sudan. Famine persisted in five regions of Sudan and was expected to spread to five more by this May, the report found. It barely made the news.To help make sense of all this, I talked to Nicholas Haan, who designed the food-insecurity classification system that became the IPC. Haan serves as a volunteer on the FRC, was one of the authors of the report that rebuked the USAID analysis, and is the lead technical adviser in a UN effort to replicate the IPC in areas such as health, hygiene, and shelter.Famine—like genocide, fascist, and dictator—is a word susceptible to rhetorical abuse that can dilute and even invert its meaning. “My goal was to take famine from being a rhetorical word and make it a technical term,” Haan told me. When the IPC uses the word famine now, “we mean famine.”IPC owes its success during the past two decades to the fact that it works. And because it works, nefarious governments and armed groups have tried to sabotage it. Reuters reported last year that when the ruling junta in Myanmar detained several food researchers, the IPC was forced to remove its reports about the country from the internet. In Yemen, Houthi forces hijacked the IPC process in 2023 to exaggerate food shortages and compel aid shipments that were then stolen by the Iranian-backed militia.“Political actors, for their own reasons, will manipulate information. It’s a truism,” Haan told me. The best response, he said, is for the IPC to uphold its standards and the clarity of its messaging. “The most important, powerful, and necessary tool to achieve this is truth. When you give up truth, you’ve given up all moral standing to end suffering.” He wouldn’t comment on the famine declaration by Fakhri and the other UN officials.Since the ceasefire in Gaza collapsed and Israel resumed its offensive, the UN’s undersecretary for humanitarian affairs has apologized to Gazans for being “unable to move the international community to prevent this injustice.” Over the weekend, the UN refused to accept a U.S.-Israeli plan to deliver aid directly to civilians. On Tuesday, a senior Hamas official accused Israel of waging a “hunger war.”The famine storyline in Gaza is like the proverbial bell that cannot be unrung. In September, ProPublica inaccurately said, “The UN has declared a famine in parts of Gaza.” When I asked if the reporter who wrote the article had read the FRC’s reports from last summer, a ProPublica spokesperson said it stands by the reporting, citing statements by UN officials who aren’t part of the IPC process and an FRC follow-up report in November. But that report, like the others before it, warned of “a strong likelihood” of famine, not that famine had begun.The New Yorker has published roughly 20 interviews that referred to famine or starvation in Gaza—and three that addressed the IPC system and the FRC’s authoritative role. In all that reporting, The New Yorker never mentioned the FRC’s rejection of USAID’s analysis or its no-famine verdict.As Haan and his FRC colleagues wrote about USAID’s slippery numbers last year, “High uncertainty is compounded through several layers of assumptions.” So many unthinkable tragedies have occurred since Hamas’s massacre on October 7, 2023, but a famine in Gaza isn’t one of them.Michael Ames is an investigative journalist and co-author of American Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan. He is writing a book about former Fugees rapper Pras Michel.

'It reminds us of previous disasters in Ethiopia or Biafra'Experts say Gaza at ‘worst-case scenario,’ famine about to cause ‘widespread death’Calling for ‘urgent action now,’ Integrated Food Security Phase Classification says situation in the Strip is ‘unlike anything we have seen in this century’By ToI Staff and Agencies Today, 1:41 pm-JUL 29,25

The “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” the leading international authority on food crises said in a new alert Tuesday, predicting “widespread death” without immediate action.The alert, still short of a formal famine declaration, follows an outcry over images of emaciated children in Gaza and reports of dozens of hunger-related deaths after nearly 22 months of war.The international pressure led Israel over the weekend to announce measures, including daily humanitarian pauses in fighting in parts of Gaza and airdrops of supplies. The United Nations and Palestinians on the ground say little has changed, and desperate crowds continue to overwhelm and unload delivery trucks before they can reach their destinations.The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, said Gaza has teetered on the brink of famine for two years, but recent developments have “dramatically worsened” the situation, including “increasingly stringent blockades” by Israel.The IPC has issued several similar warnings during the war in Gaza, including one in May, which Israel dismissed as “flawed.”Israel said in response at the time that “even according to the IPC’s own analysis,” there was no famine in Gaza, and noted that previous IPC projections about impending famine have “repeatedly failed to materialize.”However, over the past year, conditions have worsened to the point where the IPC has issued its highest level of warning, without officially declaring that famine is present in Gaza.A formal famine declaration, which is rare, requires the kind of data that the lack of access to Gaza and mobility within has largely denied.The IPC has only declared famine a few times — in Somalia in 2011, South Sudan in 2017 and 2020, and parts of Sudan’s western Darfur region last year.But independent experts say they don’t need a formal declaration to know what they’re seeing in Gaza.“Just as a family physician can often diagnose a patient she’s familiar with based on visible symptoms without having to send samples to the lab and wait for results, so too we can interpret Gaza’s symptoms. This is famine,” Alex de Waal, author of “Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine” and executive director of the World Peace Foundation, told The Associated Press.What it takes to declare famine-An area is classified as in famine when all three of the following conditions are confirmed: At least 20 percent of households have an extreme lack of food, or are essentially starving. At least 30% of children six months to 5 years old suffer from acute malnutrition or wasting, meaning they’re too thin for their height. And at least two people or four children under 5 per 10,000 are dying daily due to starvation or the interaction of malnutrition and disease.The report, based on available information through July 25, said the crisis has reached “an alarming and deadly turning point.” It said data indicate that famine thresholds have been reached for food consumption in most of Gaza — at its lowest level since the war began — and for acute malnutrition in Gaza City.The report said nearly 17 out of every 100 children under the age of 5 in Gaza City are acutely malnourished.Mounting evidence shows “widespread starvation,” and essential health and other services have collapsed, the report found. According to the UN’s World Food Program, one in three people in Gaza is going without food for days at a time.Hospitals in Gaza have been reporting a rapid increase in hunger-related deaths in children under 5.The IPC’s previous analysis in May warned that Gaza would likely fall into famine if Israel failed to lift its blockade and stop its military campaign. Its new alert called for immediate and large-scale action and warned: “Failure to act now will result in widespread death in much of the strip.”The World Food Program warned Tuesday that the disaster unfolding in Gaza was reminiscent of last century’s famines seen in Ethiopia and Biafra in Nigeria.“This is unlike anything we have seen in this century,” WFP emergency director Ross Smith told reporters in Geneva.“It reminds us of previous disasters in Ethiopia or Biafra in the past century,” he said, speaking via video-link from Rome. “We need urgent action now.”While the IPC did not officially classify the situation as “famine,” Jean-Martin Bauer, WFP’s food security and nutrition analysis director, insisted that “what we’re seeing is mounting evidence that a famine is there.”“All the signals are there now,” he added.What aid restrictions look like-Israel has restricted aid to varying degrees throughout the war. In March, it cut off the entry of all goods, including fuel, food and medicine, to pressure Hamas to free hostages.Israel eased those restrictions in May and pushed ahead with a new US-backed aid delivery system, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, that has been wracked by chaos and violence. The traditional, UN-led aid providers say deliveries have been hampered by Israeli military restrictions and incidents of looting, while criminals and hungry crowds swarm entering convoys.While Israel says there’s no limit on how many aid trucks can enter Gaza, UN agencies and aid groups say even the latest humanitarian measures are not enough to counter the worsening starvation. In a statement Monday, Doctors Without Borders called the new airdrops ineffective and dangerous, saying they deliver less aid than trucks.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said no one is starving in Gaza and that Israel has supplied enough aid throughout the war, “otherwise, there would be no Gazans.” The Israel Defense Forces on Monday criticized what it called the “false claims of deliberate starvation in Gaza.”While the premier has acknowledged that the situation facing Gaza’s residents is “difficult,” he said that “Hamas benefits from attempting to fuel the perception of a humanitarian crisis.”“As such, they have been releasing unverified numbers to the news media while circulating images that are carefully staged or manipulated,” he said.The premier did not offer evidence to back up the claim that images of starving children that have circulated globally were “staged” by Hamas (though the veracity of one image was debunked by the IDF). In contrast, US President Donald Trump said earlier Monday that the images of starvation in Gaza are “real,” adding: “You can’t fake that.”The reports of an increasingly dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip — including growing levels of malnutrition, and children dying by starvation — led Israel on Sunday to declare that it would implement a “tactical” pause in daily military operations in densely populated areas of Gaza, along with several other changes, to allow for the safe distribution of humanitarian aid.At the same time, Israel has denied using hunger as a weapon of war, and accused the United Nations and other aid agencies of failing to pick up and distribute supplies delivered to Gaza’s border crossing points.

PM says Israel will ensure lots of Gaza aid; ministers said to mull occupation, annexation-Netanyahu suggests images of starving Palestinians ‘staged’ by Hamas; cabinet said to weigh ‘siege,’ full occupation, annexation of Strip if no truce deal; Dermer, Hanegbi meet Witkoff By Lazar Berman,Jacob Magid and Sam Sokol-Today, 10:55 am-JUL 28,25

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said late Monday that while the “situation in Gaza is difficult,” Israel is working to ensure that large quantities of aid enter the Strip.Netanyahu’s statement, which was made in English, came amid a policy shift on aid to Gaza as international outrage has grown over the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, including daily reports of deaths from starvation and malnutrition.Netanyahu held a cabinet meeting on Monday evening devoted to Gaza, during which the military presented a new plan for a “siege” of the Strip, which would again cut off all humanitarian aid, according to the Kan broadcaster. Other Hebrew media reports, quoting unnamed sources, said ministers are weighing fully occupying Gaza, and/or annexing parts of the Strip, if Hamas continues to reject efforts to finalize a ceasefire and hostage release deal, but that Jerusalem will first give the negotiations another chance.In his statement, Netanyahu said Israel “will continue to work with international agencies, as well as the US and European nations, to ensure that large amounts of humanitarian aid flows into the Gaza Strip.”He added that Israel is already allowing significant amounts of food, water and medicine into Gaza every day.While the premier acknowledged that the situation facing Gaza’s residents is “difficult,” he said that “Hamas benefits from attempting to fuel the perception of a humanitarian crisis.”“As such, they have been releasing unverified numbers to the news media while circulating images that are carefully staged or manipulated,” he said.The premier did not offer evidence to back up the claim that images of starving children that have circulated globally were “staged” by Hamas (though the veracity of one image was debunked by the IDF). In contrast, US President Donald Trump said earlier Monday that the images of starvation in Gaza are “real,” adding: “You can’t fake that.”“We’ll continue to act responsibly, as we always have, and we’ll continue to seek the return of our hostages and the defeat of Hamas,” Netanyahu’s office concluded. “That is the only way to secure peace for Israelis and Palestinians alike.”The reports of an increasingly dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip — including growing levels of malnutrition, and children dying by starvation — led Israel on Sunday to declare that it would implement a “tactical” pause in daily military operations in densely populated areas of Gaza, along with several other changes, to allow for the safe distribution of humanitarian aid.At the same time, Israel has denied using hunger as a weapon of war, and accused the United Nations and other aid agencies of failing to pick up and distribute supplies delivered to Gaza’s border crossing points.Cabinet weighing Gaza ‘siege,’ full occupation-On Monday evening, Netanyahu held a cabinet meeting during which the military presented a new plan for a “siege” of the Gaza Strip, which would again cut off all humanitarian aid and even electricity, Kan reported.According to the report, the IDF would dramatically “expand” its ground operations in Gaza, including to areas where it has not yet operated, to “tighten” pressure on Hamas.The report did not specify which areas of Gaza the IDF would focus on, but was likely referring to areas where hostages are believed to be held – a move that Israel largely avoided until now. The IDF recently claimed it already controls some 75 percent of the Gaza Strip.The report quoted a source as saying that Israel is at “the worst situation at the current point in time.”“The negotiations for a [ceasefire and hostage release] deal are at a standstill, the IDF is in a kind of shambles in the Strip and soldiers are being killed, and Hamas is not feeling the pressure,” the source said. “Not to mention Trump’s words today confirming that there is famine in Gaza.”According to a report by Channel 12 news, the cabinet is also considering a full military occupation of the Gaza Strip, alongside a tightened siege on certain city centers within the territory.The network said that the full occupation of the enclave was on the docket for Monday’s cabinet meeting, but did not say what the ministers decided on the issue.Regarding talks for a truce with Hamas, a senior security official told the network: “The US needs to put a gun on the table and force Qatar to choose between Hamas’s interests and its own. The US is the only actor that can bring Hamas back to the negotiating table. If it doesn’t act, the situation will remain unchanged.”The terror group has said that it remains interested in negotiating a deal. It denies claims by Israel and the US — which the two countries cited as the reason for pulling their teams from Doha last week — that it is being unserious in the talks.According to a third report, in the Hebrew-language Maariv daily, Israel will begin annexing parts of the Gaza Strip if Hamas again rejects efforts by mediators to broker a ceasefire and hostage release deal. This report added that Jerusalem will give the negotiations another chance.The unsourced report said Netanyahu recently presented the annexation proposal in a meeting with a small group of ministers, who decided to establish a special entity for administering annexed areas.A separate report in the Haaretz newspaper said Netanyahu presented the plan as part of efforts to keep Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from pulling his far-right Religious Zionism party out of the government.While fellow far-right party leader National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has come out strongly against the recent shift in aid policy, Smotrich has remained publicly quiet on the issue, reportedly pressuring Netanyahu behind the scenes.According to the Haaretz report, Israel would annex areas in the “buffer zone” along the Gaza border first, followed by areas in the north of the Strip near the Israeli cities of Sderot and Ashkelon, and gradually continue until most or all of the territory is annexed.Smotrich reportedly told Netanyahu that if the plan goes forward, his party will “remain in the government for the time being,” and that the premier will be “tested by his actions.”The report said that the plan had been given a green light by Trump.While Smotrich has stayed quiet in recent days, fellow Religious Zionism Minister Orit Strock, who leads the Settlement and National Projects Ministry, declared Monday that there is “no point” to a right-wing government leading Israel if it cannot bring about a swift victory in the Gaza Strip.Speaking to Israelis wounded in the war at a tent encampment near the Knesset, Strock said her party’s position is that unless the government can lead Israel to victory “not in a time frame of years, but in a time frame of days, of a few weeks,” then “we have nothing to do there [in Gaza].”Dermer, Hanegbi meet Witkoff in Florida-Meanwhile, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi reportedly met with US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Florida on Monday, according to a source familiar with the matter.The source added that the trio was seeking to coordinate after both the US and Israel pulled their negotiators out of Qatar, citing frustration with Hamas’s response to the latest Gaza ceasefire and hostage release proposal.An Arab diplomat and second source involved in mediation efforts said the gaps between the two sides are still bridgeable and that Egypt and Qatar are urging the US to allow for proximity talks to resume in Doha.Witkoff said last week that the US would explore “alternative options,” and Trump indicated that he would support Israel moving ahead with military operations to try to “get rid of” Hamas.According to an Arab diplomat who spoke with The Times of Israel, contact between mid-level Israeli negotiators and Egyptian and Qatari mediators has continued on a daily basis since Israel and the US decided to recall their teams last week.The Arab diplomat said Egypt and Qatar are still waiting for directives from Witkoff, while simultaneously working independently to revive the negotiations.The war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are still holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023.They include the bodies of at least 28 confirmed dead by the IDF. Twenty are believed to be alive and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said. Hamas is also holding the body of an IDF soldier who was killed in Gaza in 2014.Over 58,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.