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Famine is imminent in northern gaza and israeli troops launched a fourth major raid on shifa hospital, were tens of thousands have been seeking shelter. We will go to rob a lot to speak with palestinian position and politician dr. Mustafa barghouti. At least 12 are killed in haiti as violence and turmoil continue. We will talk to the former u. S. Special envoy for haiti, ambassador dan foote. He resigned from his post in 2021 citing the Biden Administrations Inhumane Treatment was quote of haitian Asylum Seekers and u. S. Meddling in haitian politics. Then as republican president ial frontrunner donald trump calls immigrants animals again, a new film called unseen hopes to reframe the narrative entirely. It profiles a blind, undocumented social work student named pedro. You placed a lot of stress and anxiety and do you. I decided to study social work. I wanted to help people, an opportunity for those that did not have an opportunity. Amy well speak with the films director set hernandez. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Famine is imminent in northern gaza according to a u. N. Backed report published monday. Michael fakri, the u. N. Special rapporteur on the right to food said the u. S. Is complicit in this starvation of the Palestinian People in gaza and urged the Biden Administration to call for a ceasefire and stop sending weapons and money to israel. U. N. Secretary general Antonio Guterres and unrwa chief Philippe Lazzarini also blasted what they called the manmade hunger crisis monday. This is the eus top diplomat josep borrell. Close this is not a natural disaster. It is not a flood, an earthquake. It is entirely manmade. I am coming from washington and i dare to say, well, yes, israel is provoking. Amy borrell added, before the war, gaza was the greatest open air prison. Today it is the greatest open air graveyard. The European Union monday approved sanctions against violent Israeli Settlers in the occupied west bank and against hamas. The white house says President Biden told Benjamin Netanyahu israel should not invade rafah during a monday phone call as the israeli Prime Minister reportedly agreed to send a team of israeli officials to washington to discuss an alternative approach. But the Palestinian Foreign Ministry Says israel has already begun its largescale attack on rafah without announcing it as hes really escalate their bombardment Israeli Forces escalate its bombardment of the once socalled safe zone, where some 1. 5 million palestinians have taken shelter. Earlier today, israeli strikes killed at least 14 people in rafah, and injured dozens of others. We are in ramadan. We are having food over body remains. There is u. S. Support, european support, support of the whole world to israel. They support them with weapons and planes. They mock as and send four or five airdrops just to save face. Amy close to 32,000 palestinians have been killed by israel since october 7 according to the latest official numbers. 74,000 others have been injured. The Police General tasked with coordinating the entry of aid trucks into northern gaza was killed by Israeli Forces during their raid on the alshifa hospital in gaza city. Faiq mabhouh helped secure the arrival of food aid for two nights in a row after weeks of israeli blockade. Meanwhile, al jazeera journalist Ismail Alghoul was released after 12 hours of detention. While in israeli custody, he said he and other journalists were forced to strip and lie on their stomachs in the cold while blindfolded with their hands tied. In the occupied west bank, Israeli Forces arrested journalist Rula Hassanein and rated raided her home overnight. She has a ninemonth old baby she was forced to leave behind despite still breastfeeding. In related news, a 26yearold palestinian bedouin detainee died in an israeli prison over the weekend amid reports of rampant abuse and medical neglect in israeli jails. Juma abu ghanima is at least the 13th person to die from mistreatment in an israeli prison since october 7. In haiti, at least a dozen people were killed as armed groups attacked two upscale neighborhoods in the capital portauprince monday. The communities of laboule and thomassin had remained untouched by worsening violence and turmoil in haiti. Residents described the chaotic scene early monday. Last night around 11 00 p. M. , we were sitting here and two young boys suddenly appeared and opened fire on several of our brothers. They did not address anyone, they just started shooting. I was there when the shooting happened. I saw them get out of the car and start shooting stop i was trying to understand the situation. Amy last week, unelected haitian Prime Minister ariel henry announced he will resign after a coalition of armed groups opposing the leader declared an uprising. Meanwhile, haitian stakeholders and leaders of Caribbean Community, caricom, are still in negotiations to establish a transitional president ial council in haiti. In nigeria, an armed group has kidnapped at least 87 people, including children, in kaduna state. The mass abduction is the latest attack following the separate kidnapping of nearly 300 students and staff from a school in the northwestern town of kuriga earlier this month. Abductions in nigeria have become more frequent in recent years as armed groups target local residents for large ransoms. In gambia, the National Assembly voted to repeal a landmark 2015 ban on female genitatacutting, also known as female genital mutilation. If approved, it would be the first reversal of protections against the practice, which causes longterm health effects, including increased risk of complications during pregnancy and childbirth. Less than 10 of the National Assemblys members are women. This is Amnesty International researcher michele eken. It will be disastrous for womens rights not only in gambia, but the region. It would tell young girls, your rights can easily be taken away. If this is passed, then what is next . We have to be strong about this and make sure we dont take away something that took so long to fight for. Amy schools in south sudan have temporarily shuttered in preparation of a scorching heat wave thats expected to last for the next two weeks. Officials have advised children to stay indoors as temperatures are likely to reach 113 degrees fahrenheit. Extreme heat waves have become more common in south sudan due to the worsening Climate Change crisis and has compounded an already dire humanitarian crisis due to conflict in the region. U. N. Secretarygeneral Antonio Guterres has expressed concern at reports the Burmese Military is continuing to bomb civilian areas. Dozens of people were reportedly killed, including children, early monday in Burmese Military air strikes on a predominantly rohingya village in rakhine state. Clashes in the region have soared after the end of a sea in november between the air can army and burmese forces. Guterres said, the expansion of conflict is driving displacement and exacerbating preexisting vulnerabilities and discrimination. In syria, some 30,000 children and women who had connections to Islamic State militants are still being detained in camps and prisons across the north syria under severely abusive conditions. Thats according to a u. N. Backed commission which says most of the children were brought to the region a decade ago when the Islamic State controlled portions of land in the region. Its been five years since the militant group lost its presence in syria, but their children have yet to be repatriated to their home countries, remaining in indefinite captivity. Tens of thousands of people, many of them children under the age of 12 and women who were married to Islamic State militants, are being held at alhol camp, which has been described by the u. N. As a blight on the conscience of humanity. Dozens of babies are reportedly born each month at alhol, which is located in a region of northwestern syria still patrolled by hundreds of u. S. Troops. Meanwhile, teenage boys are kept in jails that are run by u. S. Backed Kurdishled Syrian Democratic forces. In argentina, protesters in buenos aires were met with riot police and tear gas monday as they marched in a unionled rally to protest mounting Food Insecurity and farright president Javier Mileis massive cuts to social spending. This is union leader hugo godoy. Today we came back to marsh together to demand the come government respond to this worsening situation of the food crisis that over 6 million argentinian suffer from. The government doesnt even have an inch of humanity to guarantee the provisions to soup kitchens. It is as if they enjoy that peoples pain. Amy the protest took place days after senators dealt a major blow to president Javier Mileis socalled economic Shock Therapy agenda, voting to block his sweeping decree. Since taking office, milei has imposed over 300 austerity and deregulation measures. He also cracked down on the right to protest. Argentina has the highest inflation rate in the world, even as it slowed down to 13 last month, down from 20 in january. Unicef has warned that children are suffering some of the worst effects of the current economic crisis and mileis costcutting measures, with a Child Poverty rate that could soon hit 70 . Back in the United States, donald trump failed to secure the 454 million bond in his new york civil fraud case, increasing the likelihood new York Attorney general Letitia James will seize his real estate assets. Trumps lawyers said their client was turned down by around 30 bond underwriting companies. The lawyers are requesting an the former president be allowed to delay posting bond while he appeals the case. If their request is denied, james could start seizing trumps properties on monday. In other trump news, former white house aide Peter Navarro is expected to turn himself in to a federal prison in miami today to serve his fourmonth sentence for contempt of congress. Navarro will become the first ever exwhite house official to serve time for a contempt of Congress Conviction after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating the january 6 capitol insurrection. The u. S. Supreme court monday heard arguments in two First Amendment cases. The National Rifle association is accusing a new york state official of threatening Insurance Companies to get them to cut ties with the gun rights group. In the other case, conservative states and social media users allege the federal government overstepped when it put pressure on social Media Companies to moderate misinformation around covid and the 2020 election. The justices appeared skeptical of efforts to limit the Biden Administrations contact with social Media Companies. This is Justice Ketanji brown jackson. So i guess some might say the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country and you seem to be suggesting that duty cannot manage the past itself and manifest itself in the government encouraging or pressuring plat froms to take down harmful information. So can you help me . I am really worried about that because you have got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances of the governments perspective and you are saying the government cannot interact with the source of those problems. Amy and the Environmental Protection agency announced a full ban on asbestos. The carcinogen had been largely prohibited in previous environmental orders but chrysotile asbestos had been permitted until this latest ban and is used in a range of products, including brake linings, gaskets, and in chlorine bleach and sodium hydroxide production. Its been found to cause lung cancer, mesothelioma and other cancers, and is linked to over 40,000 u. S. Deaths each year. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Famine is imminent in northern gaza according to a u. N. Backed report published on monday. The latest findings say virtually everyone in gaza is struggling to get enough food and that nearly a third of the population of 2. 3 million are experiencing the highest levels of catastrophic hunger. At least 27 people, mostly children, have died from malnutrition and dehydration in the north. According to the new report, the death rate is expected to accelerate and reach famine levels soon. The World Health Organizations said in a statement the ipc report confirms what we, our u. N. Partners and ngos have been witnessing and reporting for months. When our missions reach hospitals, we meet exhausted and hungry Health Workers who ask us for food and water. We see patients trying to recover from lifesaving surgeries and losses of limbs, or sick with cancer or diabetes, mothers who have just given birth, or newborn babies, all suffering from hunger and the diseases that stalk it. This comes as the Israeli Military launched another major raid on alshifa hospital in gaza city on monday, with Israeli Forces backed by tanks and artillery surrounding the complex and troops storming into a number of buildings. The Health Ministry said about 30,000 people have been sheltering at the hospital, which is the largest hospital in gaza, and that everyone who tries to move is targeted by sniper bullets and quadcopters. Among those killed in the raid was faiq mabhouh, a senior officer in the gaza police whom who was in charge of coordinating a distribution in the north. Meanwhile, President Biden warned israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a telephone call on monday that an invasion of rafah would be a mistake and called on netanyahu to send a team of officials to washington to discuss an alternative approach. Israel has continued to bomb rafah almost daily, prompting the Palestinian Foreign ministry say israel has already begun its largescale attack on the area. The death toll in gaza is close to 32,000, over one third of them children, while nearly 74,000 have been injured. For more, we are joined by dr. Mustafa barghouti, palestinian physician, activist, and politician. He serves as general secretary of the Palestinian National initiative. He is joining us from ramallah in the occupied west bank. Welcome to democracy now lets talk about this issue of famine. Doctors describing the wasting you see, for example, at the temples, people dying of starvation, particularly children. Can you talk about what this means and when these officials in the u. N. And other bodies talk about this manmade disaster . The reality is the whole of gaza population, 2. 3 Million People, are suffering from malnutrition already. That includes children, men, women, pregnant women, breastfeeding women, everybody. That is because of the israeli imposed siege on gaza. The continuous bombardment taken why the lives of people. It is also combined with the fact israel has destroyed more than 70 of peoples homes. They dont have normal place to be in. They dont have normal clothes. They dont have clean water to drink. And they dont have food supplies. This is all happening in front of the world. We are talking about famine. We are talking about hunger. We are talking about 700,000 people starting now in the north of gaza, that includes also gaza city. 350,000 our children. That is why i think almost 30 children have died because of starvation already. This is all happening because of the israeli siege, because nobody in the world not the United States, not europe, not the International Community as a whole is capable of forcing israel to stop this terrible crime of collective punishment against a whole population. Israel will not change its policy and its approach without sanctions. The world should impose sanctions on israel to force it to open the rows of supplies of humanitarian aid to the people of gaza and to accept a ceasefire. Because even if supplies are

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