Gazans Are Starving. It’s a Manmade Catastrophe.

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In the last few months, widespread starvation has gripped the Gaza Strip. United Nations-backed food security experts say the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in Gaza, home to an estimated 2 million Palestinians. One of the few organizations still on the ground trying to feed Palestinians at risk of famine is the Gaza Soup Kitchen. This week’s guest on More To The Story with Al Letson is Abe Ajrami, a Palestinian who now lives in the US and helps coordinate the organization’s food aid. Ajrami talks about the kitchen’s extraordinary efforts to help prevent famine in Gaza, the debate over whether the Israeli government is committing genocide against Palestinians, and whether a two-state solution is still achievable.

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0:00.0	As widespread hunger grips Gaza, there are people on the ground who are doing their best to feed the hungry.
0:09.0	We want to provide good quality food, decent food. With dignity, we cook for our neighbors or friends.
0:16.2	We're not some third party coming into Gaza to provide food. We are it. We are the Gaza people.
0:23.4	Coming up on more to the story,
0:25.2	I talk with Abe Adrami from the Gaza Soup Kitchen
0:28.0	about what it takes to coordinate food aid
0:30.7	for their 11 sites in the Gaza Strip.
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1:50.2	This is more to the story. I'm out Letson. After Hamas staged an attack on Israel in October of
1:58.3	2003, killing more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals,
2:02.5	and kidnapping about 251 hostages, the Israeli government struck back.
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