Political Quotes

“Following the attacks on October 7, 2023, Israel had every right to go after Hamas, but how they do so matters. Indiscriminate bombing with massive casualties, women and children, is horrific, completely unacceptable. Blocking food and medicine with the goal of inducing starvation is horrific and unacceptable. And that is true under any religious or moral code. Let me tell you about a few children the AP reported on a couple weeks ago. Four children who starved to death, ranging from 4 months old to 2 years old--picture that little child in your arm, their legs and arms just a twig, their ribs showing every indentation, and then, finally, their body, as it goes through malnutrition, starts to consume itself, and they died of gastric arrest. Their stomach's ability to absorb nutrition shut down, and they died. The hospital they were at, the Patient's Friends Hospital, had run out of emergency nutrition supplies. There are supplies that are specially designed for malnutrition among children. There are high-calorie biscuits and a high-calorie peanut paste enriched with milk powder that often goes by the name Plumpy'Nut. It is designed to help children. It has a long shelf life. It doesn't have to be refrigerated. To help save them from severe acute malnutrition, couldn't we have enough such assistance that no child would be starving to death in Gaza? Organizations across Gaza have been running out of these supplies. UNICEF warned that their locations are running out.”