British famine expert Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, blames the Hamas terror organization for the Oct. 7 attacks.

“Hamas is guilty of many crimes. It is guilty of starving the hostages. When Hamas says ‘everyone is hungry, so the hostages are hungry too,’ that’s false,” de Waal told JNS. “Hamas leaders have shown reckless and callous disregard for the Gazan people, willing to risk or sacrifice them for its political goals.”

But although he thinks that the United Nations and the agency that it relies on for food security analysis are using incomplete data in their determination that “famine” is occurring in Gaza, de Waal told JNS that it would be in the Jewish state’s best interest to allow for bet

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