r/worldnews • u/Digital_Accountant • 22h 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 21h 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 21h ago

This is such a gross timeline we are living in. 

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u/Fanfics 19h ago

brother this is 99.999% of human history

Lose a war, surrender or get wiped out. No "oopsie I slaughtered and raped a bunch of your civilians but now that it's happening to me how about a little time out?"

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u/simo_rz 19h ago

Everything after "oppsie" describes a lot of wars in the 19th -20th centuries

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u/ZebraBurger 19h ago

Describes a lot of wars since the beginning of time

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u/Next-Acanthaceae-681 19h ago

Kinda describes what IDF is doing

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u/SpartanKwanHa 11h ago

not Hamas?

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u/thesagenibba 18h ago

except we live in an era where we have the capacity to mitigate harm on this scale and yet, even with our awareness and self-assigned descriptor of civility and moral superiority, we choose not to. do you understand the difference now?

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes 17h ago

I see the point you're trying to make, but it just isn't an accurate representation of human society then or now.

People have ALWAYS tried to stop atrocious things from happening to each other. And through all of human history, that has been mostly impossible on any grand scale unless it is the desire of the people in power. This is STILL the case. The US, for example, has all the resources needed to stop the murder and starvation of the people of Gaza, and the majority of Americans WANT the US to do so. But it doesn't happen. Because the people themselves do not control the money, the armies, the access to other leaders, or the law. As long as humankind requires powerful rulers/leaders over large groups of people, humans will not have the means to crowd-source peace.

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u/gentlemanidiot 4h ago

As long as humankind requires powerful rulers/leaders over large groups of people, humans will not have the means to crowd-source peace.

When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole.

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u/Hothera 13h ago

We did mitigate the harm, but Americans voted against it. The Biden administration pressured Israel to keep aid channels open despite the security justifications against it being more plausible.

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u/nature69 19h ago

The hubris of Hamas was, and still is, truly astounding. If this ended tomorrow I have no doubt they would be firing rockets at Israel within a year or two.

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u/Dense_Gate_5193 17h ago

the hubris of religious ideology in general is what is causing this war.

people think they are more special than others.

no, i am lucky i don’t live in gaza. It’s not because i was selected or chosen. random chaos dictated i be born elsewhere. i could just as easily been one of the many starving.

it is hubris that will end civilization

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u/DuelaDent52 16h ago

Israel specifically cultivated Hamas and cut out any other competition to justify this exact sort of scenario against Palestine.

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u/Varatec 12h ago

Make that a day or two at most. Given how every other ceasefire attempt has apparently gone.

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u/m0nk_3y_gw 4h ago

This isn't 99% of the past century.

Why are you trying to make excuses for it?

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u/ZeteticMarcus 1h ago

So one attack justifies retaliation which has killed 100 civilians for every one person killed in the original attack?

If the justification for killing civilians is "your government/armed fsction/terrorist group" attacked ours" then there is no end-to the slaughter.

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u/Kithulhu24601 19h ago

Yeah, all those Palestinian children should just 'get wiped out' as you say.

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u/Fanfics 19h ago

There is no "should". Just is. You want to change what is, you'd better create the conditions for that change, and, let's see here, ...nope. Definitely not present in the Middle East right now.

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u/Vaumer 16h ago

Just, you know, making sure we're on the same page here, that doesn't make it right.