As we reported yesterday, Hamas wrote a stern letter to Human Rights Watch for its report that the “bombing” of a hospital in Gaza was the result of an errant rocket fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. We don’t know if Human Rights Watch has apologized yet.
Kenneth Roth is the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, and he’s weighing in that Israeli hostages were starved. They subsisted on rice, and occasionally they’d get a piece of pita bread to share.
Details are emerging as to what the hostages endured at the hands of Hamas: like marked weight loss (10-15 kilo) and how the food intake of the children has to be monitored so they don’t hurt themselves. Many returned with fractured bones. The worst parts can’t yet be expressed.
— Rachel Gur (@RachelGur) November 28, 2023
Roth notes that the Palestinian civilians are going hungry too, and the reason is that Israel has cut off the supply of food to Gaza (even though they just trucked in humanitarian aid as part of the hostage deal).
The Israeli hostages held by Hamas did not escape growing hunger as food became scarcer due to Israel’s punishing siege of Gaza, blocking most food, water, and other necessities. The…
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