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, US Agency for International Development administrator Samantha Power said on Wednesday ― a striking admission prompted by questioning over a HuffPost story revealing USAID officials privately reached that conclusion last week.on a USAID cable that referred to famine in northern Gaza without caveats and argued “even in the best-case scenario the threshold to support a Famine determination has likely already been crossed.
The USAID staff extensively described in the cable how Israeli limits on food and other vital goods for Gaza are driving mass hunger.The situation could also have dire legal implications for Israel and the U.S. as they continue the mission that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched against Hamas, the Gaza-based Palestinian militant group, after a shock Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7.
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