Questions about cause of Gaza famine

Well, I’m confused if no one else is. Did I hear wrong, or what?

For instance, here’s the first sentence (actually, the first paragraph) from a recent letter: “Benjamin Netanyahu is intentionally starving an entire population of people (women, men, children and babies), murdering those seeking food, killing thousands of women, children and babies, destroying hospitals, destroying churches, killing those in so-called safe zones, killing emergency responders, creating pager bombs.”

What I’ve heard is that in the Israeli controlled portion of Gaza, food, medicine and care are being provided for the people caught up in this mess. I also heard, and this is backed up by what has happened in the past when dealing with groups like Hamas, that it is in those other areas, those controlled by Hamas, where the people are being starved. Hamas is reported to have absconded with most (or all?) of the food and other aid in supply trucks to those areas, and the people never get any of it, hence the starving.

So which is it? Fake news about Israel providing this aid where they can, or fake news about Hamas stealing every form of aid being sent into their areas of control?

And in another unrelated matter, another writer is concerned about health threats if Naperville renews a contract with a coal-burning electricity generation company. I heard about such concerns decades ago and as a direct result, new regulations were put in place to clean up whatever was coming out of those plants’ chimneys. I’ve heard that this cleanup was very effective at drastically reducing the pollution levels being emitted. True or not true? If true, why are we still hearing about “old” pollution problems that have long been very significantly cleaned up?

John Babush

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