In Gaza

After 21 months of war, aid groups are sounding every alarm over starvation in Gaza.

The U.N. reported this week that Gaza’s hunger crisis had reached “new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row.” The Hamas-run health agency is reporting an uptick in starvation-related deaths, especially among children.

Fingers are pointing every which way. Israel accuses Hamas of disrupting food distribution to engender sympathy, and it blames the U.N. for mismanaging aid. The U.N. agrees that gangs and crowds have overrun distribution, but blames Israel for the unsafe conditions.

Aiming to bring about “a just and durable peace” and revive interest in a two-state solution, France has diverged from the U.S. and other allies by recognizing Palestine as a country.

ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE
Our God is a refuge for the poor, defending and executing justice for the needy. In the face of hunger and death, we urgently pray for daily bread and cling to the hope that one day…

“The LORD of Armies will prepare for all the peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast with aged wine, prime cuts of choice meat, fine vintage wine. On this mountain he will swallow up the burial shroud… When he has swallowed up death once and for all, the LORD God will wipe away the tears from every face.” 
Isaiah 25:6-8 (CSB) (read full passage)