Ten Nobel Prize winners are among a slate of 23 of the most highly-regarded economists in the US and Europe who penned a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, asking him to rescind his plans to militarily occupy Gaza City, and urging him to allow unrestricted food aid into the enclave.
The first signatory to the letter is Nobel laureate, MIT economist, and co-author of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu. He shared the letter on X on Friday.
“We write with urgent concern about the spreading starvation in Gaza and the Israeli government’s plan to concentrate civilians in a so-called ‘humanitarian city,'” the letter says.
“As human beings and as economists and scientists, we call for an immediate halt to any policy that intensifies widespread starvation”.
The second paragraph denounces the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel, but adds, “that does not absolve the Israeli government, which controls the flow and distribution of aid, of responsibility”.
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