Israel may be using starvation as 'weapon of war': UN
Wednesday, 20 March 2024 The UN said Tuesday that Israel's severe restrictions on aid into war-ravaged Gaza coupled with its military offensive could amount to using starvation as a "weapon of war", which would be a "war crime". She noted that malnutrition had been basically "non-existant" in Gaza before the war. United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk denounced the rampant hunger and looming famine in Gaza.
This Day in History: , The War in Iraq Begins.
March 19, 2003.
In a televised address to the American people,
U.S. President George W. Bush announced the
beginning of a war that would end up lasting eight years.
48 hours earlier, the
U.S. had issued an ultimatum
to Iraqi dictator...
Lex Fridman Annie Jacobsen talk Nuclear War and what it would look like. Annie Jacobsen explains 5 billion would die in the event of a nuclear war. First ten of thousands then billions would die from..