There’s a broken link in the food chain of California’s brown pelicans, adding a sad chapter to one of conservation’s most striking success stories. Emaciated birds are turning up in California’s ponds, reservoirs, backyards and even San Francisco’s Oracle Park during a baseball game — far from their wild ocean home. Wildlife centers are inundated […]
Two Davenport residents were in custody Saturday after animal-control officers and police allege they found malnourished animals at their home along with dead rabbits and a cat in a freezer, according to court records. Joshua Schmidt (L) and Suzanne Schmidt (Scott County Jail) Suzanne Schmidt, 48, and Joshua Schmidt, 25, both face three aggravated-misdemeanor charges […]
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said it has handed out a “limited number” of high-energy biscuits that arrived in Gaza via a US-built pier. It is the first aid from the new humanitarian sea route to reach Palestinians. WFP spokesman Steve Taravella said on Wednesday the small number of biscuits came in the first […]
CNN Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday denied the allegation from an International Criminal Court prosecutor that he was starving Palestinians in Gaza as a method of war, arguing the ICC arrest warrant was based on “a pack of lies.” On CNN, Netanyahu labeled ICC prosecutor Karim Khan a “rogue prosecutor” putting forth “false charges” after he […]
ESPAÑOLA, N.M. (KRQE) – A malnourished bear cub, weighing just 16 pounds, is given a second chance at life after it was found near Red River a few months ago. “The worst cub we’ve ever received in absolute end-stage starvation,” stated Dr. Kathleen Ramsay, co-founder of Cottonwood Rehab Center. The Cottonwood Rehab Center said they got […]
Before President Joe Biden warned Israel that his administration would refuse to send more weapons, including 2,000-pound bombs that have killed so many innocent people, an Israeli spokesman sat down with broadcaster Piers Morgan. It turned into maybe the most revealing exchange since the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel that triggered the unfolding […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States expects to have on-the-ground arrangements in Gaza ready for humanitarian workers to start delivering food, treatment for starving children and other urgent assistance by early to mid-month when the American military expects to complete a floating pier for the aid, an official with the U.S. Agency for International Development […]
Claim: An April 2024 photo shows a sushi restaurant 8 miles from where people are “starving to death” in Gaza. Rating: Rating: Miscaptioned Context: While the image is authentically from a sushi restaurant in Sderot, an Israeli city near the northern border of the Gaza Strip, it was not taken in 2024. The protracted, […]
Gaza’s children and young people are becoming increasingly desperate about food supplies, according to the UN’s children’s relief organization UNICEF. Children are dreaming of a slice of cucumber or begging for a tomato, James Elder, UNICEF’s spokesman said in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Young people who spoke to the organization said they hoped to […]
Ramadan in the Gaza Strip this year will be anything but “normal.” Malnutrition and disease are claiming dozens of lives. The Gaza Health Ministry said on March 6, 2024, that at least 20 people had died of malnutrition. Many others, it said, were “dying silently,” unable to reach medical facilities. According to humanitarian organizations, the […]
“We do fasting during Ramadan, now they’re not fasting, they’re starving, they’re dying.” A Belfast-born man whose wife and other family members were killed in Gaza has said he cannot celebrate one of the holiest months in the Islamic calendar. Khalid El-Estal was reunited with his two children after they fled Gaza in November. He […]
On the ruins of what was once Gaza’s main coastal road, Palestinians displaced by months of intense fighting as Israel battles to destroy Hamas were on the move again Tuesday. This time, they were looking for food. Across the decimated Gaza Strip, starvation has become so acute that the Jordanian military has taken to airdropping […]