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Mass Starvation Used to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza, Our Federal Representatives Are Responsible

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By Scott Steward

This has to stop.  I could not continue my regular day after listening to the 15-minute interview on Breaking Points 8/1 time mark, minute 33 to minute 48 with Dr. Ambereen Sleemi, Urogynecologist and Executive Director of the International Medical Response Foundation. Dr. Sleemi returned this week from volunteering for several weeks at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. (Note: Breaking Points newscast produces lengthy reporting, and therefore, readers should skip to the time stamp to hear her interview.  The excerpts that follow my editorial are from Democracy Now and have much of the same content as the Breaking Points interview).

As a taxpayer to the US federal government and a constituent of three US federal representatives, Mike Thompson (Congressman District 4) and two Senators, Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, it is the least I can do to publish an excerpt of this firsthand account of the conditions of mass deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. 

Mr. Thompson, Padilla and Schiff are guilty of aiding in the mass extermination of a national ethnicity and in the case of Padilla and Schiff, guilty of having recently voted against two Senate Resolutions to block more than $675 million in weapons sales to Israel — only weapons that were offensive in nature, the resolution did not seek to block defensive weapons.

The moral depravity of our currently elected federal representatives is beyond reproach. It is significant that Mike Thompson is a cosponsor of H.R. 2411, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Funding Emergency Restoration Act of 2025. It is also a profound disappointment that Congressman Thompson considers his political future dependent on denying the one thing that will see hostages returned (hopefully alive) and Gazans provided humanitarian relief, that is, the cessation of weapons and military aid to Israel.  Mr. Thompson and his Congressional peers, who continue to oversee the unconditional support of Israel, which, by a definition signed by the United States, is committing genocide, have broken humanitarian law and can be tried as criminals

From the website Taxpayers Against Genocide:  In a new widely cited  report, "the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem describes the development of a “genocidal regime in Israel, working to destroy Palestinian society in Gaza.” Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) has published a legal-medical analysis documenting the deliberate and systematic destruction of Gaza’s healthcare system. Both Israeli organizations call on Israelis and the international community to take immediate action to stop the genocide, using all legal tools available under international law.” Read the report here

Excerpts from the 8/1/2025 Interview with Dr. Sleemi:

Dr. Ambereen Sleemi has been interviewed by Democracy Now, Breaking Points among other interviews she will be giving after having returned most recently from Gaza.  Dr. Ambereen Sleemi treated patients at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where she says malnutrition cases are everywhere, in newborn babies, pregnant women, and even among the hospital staff. Dr. Ambereen Sleemi is a urogynecologist who is the Executive Director of the International Medical Response Foundation based in New York City. She has provided medical services in numerous countries, including Pakistan, Nigeria, and Ukraine.

Here is the Doctor's description of Gaza's health condition.

Dr. Ambereen Sleemi: it was evident by the numbers of babies and their birth weight that was coming out, that they were being born to malnourished women… It was very clear, in my experience and those I was working with, that this was a starvation crisis that was occurring."

How would you compare Gaza to Ukraine, where you have also delivered care?

Dr. Ambereen Sleemi: "I mean, they’re both tragic situations…the one thing I can say for Gaza that is different is that there’s no safe place in Gaza. We hear it all the time. Being there, it was absolutely—it was completely evident that there is no safe place in Gaza."

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10 responses to “Mass Starvation Used to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza, Our Federal Representatives Are Responsible”

  1. Nancy Price

    Dear Scott,
    Thank you for this article. Yes, this genocide has to stop and like you, I find it hard to continue my day after reading, listening to, and watching the latest scenes in Gaza. I appreciate you emphasize again that:
    “Mr. Thompson and his Congressional peers, who continue to oversee the unconditional support of Israel, which, by a definition signed by the United States, is committing genocide, have broken humanitarian law and can be tried as criminals.”

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  2. Ron O

    Given that this has been going on for more than a couple of years at this point, it always surprises me that some people choose to have kids in an ongoing/active war zone, and are then apparently “surprised” when that turns out to be a problem. (And yes, it is usually a “choice” – regardless of the local availability of birth control, etc.)
    Of course, I’d say something similar regarding children being born into poverty in this country, as well.

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  3. Alan C. Miller

    That is a weird perspective to bring up in this context. The human animal condition is to reproduce itself when there is stress on the population. Similarly, societies with long-term peace have lower birth rates. Maybe it doesn’t make sense intellectually, but it makes sense from a species or group continuation perspective, which is what animals do. And last I heard humans are, at our core, animals.

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  4. Ron O

    Alan M: Well, last time I checked – humans were supposed to have more cognitive ability than most animals. But since you’re stating that animals (including humans) reproduce when there is more “stress” on the population (meaning an excessive number of deaths), the conclusion would be that these deaths are the “natural order” in regard to this situation. That the war itself is causing people to have an increased number of kids to be sacrificed. (I kind of doubt that’s what’s occurring there, however.)
    Personally, I think there’d be less suffering if the “intellectual” side of humans prevailed in this case. (Of course, if that was actually the case, groups like Hamas wouldn’t have arisen in the first place.) Truth be told, religion itself wouldn’t exist, either.
    The older I get, the more I realize that I don’t have to take on the problems of the world – and can’t do much about it anyway.

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  5. Alan C. Miller

    RO say: “The older I get, the more I realize that I don’t have to take on the problems of the world – and can’t do much about it anyway.”
    You don’t have to comment on the problems of the world either.

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  6. Ron O

    Alan M. True – I don’t have to do so, and neither do you.
    But I thought about your comparison between humans and animals some more, in the meantime. I believe the difference is that humans can make conscious choices, whereas animals don’t (to the same degree, at least). Also, of course, depending upon the species.
    As such, I believe that animals would generally “overpopulate” even if (or perhaps ESPECIALLY if) they lived in “peaceful societies”. (Even if they had a college degree!)
    At least, until Mr. Darwin stepped in with his brutal “laws”.

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  7. Keith

    “You don’t have to comment on the problems of the world either.”
    No one HAS to comment on anything but it’s what we do.

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  8. Justin C

    Scott,
    Thank you for your words and enlightening me to pay a little more attention to how our representatives represent (or in the case not) represent us. Horrifying and heartbreaking when there is complicity in atrocity and a lack of care when there is seemingly insurmountable suffering. Thank you for caring and using your voice.

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  9. Ron O

    Honestly, I’m o.k. with Israel and the U.S. killing most of the members of Hamas – and taking over the entirety of Gaza for the good of everyone there.
    Much as I would regarding killing Hitler.
    Ultimately, this has to be done at ground-level (not from bombings). Just as it was in Germany and Japan, after they bombed the bejesus out of them.
    And the sooner, the better for the people there.
    I don’t support “from the River to the Sea”, in regard to “who” that’s likely referring to.
    Go with the “successful”, less-harmful “regimes”.

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  10. Alan C. Miller

    RO say: “I’m o.k. with Israel and the U.S. killing most of the members of Hamas”
    And yet strangely, according to the health ministry in Gaza, no combatants have been killed. And the western media eats it up . . . and the antizionist Jews put a cherry on it and have it for desert.

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