{"id":13233,"date":"2025-07-28T15:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=13233"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:37:22","slug":"gaza-starvation-hungersnot-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/latest\/gaza-starvation-hungersnot-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza Facing Most \u201cMinutely Engineered\u201d Starvation Since WWII: Famine Expert Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\" data-sal=\"slide-up\" data-sal-easing=\"ease-in-out\" data-sal-delay=\"200\"><div class=\"row justify-content-md-center pb-3\"><div class=\"cnt_col\">\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">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. 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He is a leading expert on famine, humanitarian crises, and conflict in Africa, with decades of field experience and academic research. 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