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Could a "Coalition of the Willing" Save the Children of Gaza?
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Welcome everyone to Press TV's news review program where we get in-depth in one of the day's top stories. And now today in review, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, says over 50,000 children across the Gaza Strip are suffering from acute malnutrition. UNRWA described the humanitarian situation as catastrophic, adding Gazans are now facing desperate levels of hunger due to the Israeli blockade.
The UN Children's Agency UNICEF also said the children of Gaza are living in constant terror due to Israeli bombardment. UNICEF said the Israeli forced displacement of Gazans in Rafah has caused the agency to lose track of over 3,000 children. It added the humanitarian conditions and the suffering of citizens in Gaza are worsening by the day due to the continuous blockade by Israeli forces.
And joining us for our program now, pardon, is Dr. Kevin Barrett, Editor at Veterans Today, joining us from Saidia, Morocco and Gilbert Doctorow, Independent International Affairs Analyst, joining us out of Brussels. Gentlemen, I'd like to welcome you both to the program.
Dr. Barrett, we'll start with you. Hope you're doing well out there in Morocco. Your thoughts about the regime continuing to block all humanitarian aid from getting into Gaza and that's impacting the development of vulnerable small children.
Kevin Barrett: Well, the genocidal Zionist regime is deliberately starving children of Palestine, and they're admitting this. They're not even trying to hide it. Numerous Israeli leaders have made clearly genocidal statements, such as statements about how the children who survived when we mowed the lawn are the same people who then grow up to support Hamas and so on, so we really should have just killed all the children back then. And by implication, we should kill them now. The top rabbi in Israel has basically said this, as have a number of the other Israeli leaders.
So they're not even hiding the fact that they're deliberately slaughtering, torturing, and maiming children as national policy. And the fact that this is allowed to happen in today's world is astonishing.
Right now we're celebrating Eid al-Adha in the Islamic world, which is a celebration of the end of human sacrifice, and specifically the end of sacrificing children. That was a common practice in the ancient Mediterranean, among the Phoenician and Carthaginian culture, particularly, but others as well. And when God told people to stop sacrificing their children, that was a momentous step forward for civilization.
But apparently we're going back to the era of the sacrifice of children as this bizarre, psychotic, millenarian-messianic, genocidal cult of satanic so-called Jews—really Zionists—in occupied Palestine, is sacrificing children by the tens of thousands. And the low estimate of the number of children murdered so far is somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 children. The reality is much higher, of course, as so many children have been lost track of and are buried beneath the rubble where they died very slowly and painfully in horrible anguish due to the Zionists deliberately dropping their build