It’s hardly surprising that if you are able to reach them on the telephone and ask how they are, Gazans are these days apt to answer with just two words: “I’m alive.”

The terse acknowledgement that they have so far withstood both bombardment and starvation – a UN-backed agency charged with monitoring food security, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), officially confirmed today there is already a famine in Gaza City , and would soon be one in other large parts of the Gaza Strip – is full of meaning.

This week, the Israeli military released an interesting figure which sheds some light on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s repeated protestations – at least when he speaks in English, to the international community – that everything is being done to minimise ci

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