Gaza Facing Most “Minutely Engineered” Starvation Since WWII: Famine Expert Warns

In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald interviews Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation, about the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza. De Waal discusses the use of famine as a weapon of war, comparing the current situation in Gaza to other man-made famines he has studied, including in Ethiopia, Sudan, and Yemen. He emphasizes the unprecedented intensity and deliberate design of the starvation tactics employed, and warns of an imminent, irreversible mass starvation unless significant humanitarian aid is urgently provided.

This video was produced by System Update and published on their YouTube channel on the 22nd of July, 2025.

To read the transcript of the interview: Gaza Facing Most “Minutely Engineered” Starvation Since WWII: Famine Expert Warns

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ABOUT ALEX DE WAAL

Alex de Waal is a British scholar and executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. He is a leading expert on famine, humanitarian crises, and conflict in Africa, with decades of field experience and academic research. His books include Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine, and his work has significantly shaped international understanding of starvation as a weapon of war.

ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020 to launch his own show System Update on Rumble.