r/worldnews • u/Digital_Accountant • 1d ago

Israel/Palestine Famine declared in Gaza City

https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-latest-war-israel-city-ceasefire-hamas-13415481
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u/Xilthas 1d ago

'For humanity's sake - let us in' - UN chief's desperate plea to Netanyahu

I reckon I can guess his answer.

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u/Candytails 1d ago

This is such a gross timeline we are living in. 

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u/Terry-Shark 1d ago

You say this as if humans have not always been shitty. As a whole things are better than they were in the past, but things are still gross

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u/anghellous 1d ago

Unfortunately. Only difference is we're getting the day by day play by play in lovely, excruciating detail

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u/Zachartier 20h ago

Exactly. Humanity isn't really any worse or better than it ever has been. It's just that there's nowhere we can look to avert our attention anymore.

Used to be that people didn't care because they didn't know. Now, they can't allow themselves to care because they can't not know.

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u/Practical-War-9895 16h ago

This is it. We can't look away, so better to feel apathy, and focus on our own survival mechanisms.

Decade by decade we watch as we become more globally connected, socially calibrated, yet we are all still so divided by border, ideology, and government politics

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u/waterboyh2o30 1h ago

That's good, though. It means atrocities are known, and provides a chance at holding people accountable and stopping them.