The World Food Program warned Friday that Gaza could be plunged into famine as early as May. The U.N. food agency defines a famine as when 30% of children are malnourished, one-fifth of households face acute food shortages and two of every 10,000 people are dying from hunger or malnutrition. Israel has imposed financial restrictions on the main U.N. agency providing aid in the Gaza Strip, a measure which prevented a shipment of food for 1.1 million Palestinians from reaching the war-battered enclave. That stoppage means 1,049 shipping containers of rice, flour, chickpeas, sugar and cooking oil enough to feed 1.1 million people for one month are stuck, even as an estimated 25% of families in Gaza face catastrophic hunger. Who is to stop Israel from committing a genocide ?

