Oxfam: Israel is using "starvation as a weapon" in Gaza during the ongoing Israel-Hamas battle. x According to Oxfam, hunger is being used as a weapon of war against Gaza's civilian population, and since Israel's "total siege," only 2% of the enclave's typical food supply has been supplied. There is no functioning health system in Gaza, according to a spokesman for the health ministry. What was the Balfour Declaration and what was Israel prior to 1948? After the Ottoman Empire, which had dominated that region of the Middle East, was defeated in World War One, Britain seized control of the region known as Palestine. A majority of Arabs and a minority of Jews lived in the region, along with many smaller ethnic groups. When the international world tasked the UK with creating a "national home" for Jews in Palestine, tensions between the two peoples increased. This was a result of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which was a promise given to the Jewis...