you should have no 'truck' as it were with any of these criminals;

The images are finally breaking through the propaganda fog. Starving children – ribs sharp beneath thinning skin – have made the front pages, from The Daily Express to The New York Times.

Aid agencies are now echoing what Palestinians have been shouting for months: this is not a humanitarian crisis. It is a man-made famine. It is genocide, and it is being broadcast in real time.

According to Doctors Without Borders, cases of severe malnutrition among children under five in Gaza have tripled in just two weeks. A quarter of the children and pregnant women examined were malnourished.

Since May, famine deaths have surged – over 50 in the past week alone. The World Food Programme confirms Gaza receives just 12 percent of the food it needs. A third of the population is going days without eating. Babies are starving, mothers faint and aid convoys are shot at or turned away.

Now, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has issued an urgent alert: the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip”.

Famine thresholds for food consumption and acute malnutrition have already been breached. Starvation and disease are accelerating. Without immediate intervention, the outcome is clear: mass death.

So how did the self-proclaimed leaders of the free world respond?

With cruelty in three dialects...........more........