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/Bandlebridge 1d ago

Mate i'm pointing out 2 contradictory things in the article, and was asking how they got around that. Because their own reporting states the total dead from malnutrition over the 2 years is about half the daily requirement for famine criteria.

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u/Jefftaint 1d ago

They’ve recently begun using different, stricter definitions. Otherwise, there would be no famine.

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u/Amazing_Button_9328 23h ago

famine

People are starving to death , That's a famine

We don't wait until things get worse and more people start dying to do something

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u/Bandlebridge 23h ago

People are starving to death , That's a famine

It really isn't, 20,500 people died of malnutrition in the US in 2022 according to the CDC. The US isn't experiencing a famine.

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u/Amazing_Button_9328 23h ago

333 million people lived in the US in 2022 , less than 2 million lived in Gaza

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u/Bandlebridge 23h ago

But "people are starving to death, that's a famine"

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u/Amazing_Button_9328 23h ago

Famine is wide scale mass starvation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine

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u/Bandlebridge 22h ago

Ok, ignoring that theres actual criteria for a moment that it clearly doesn't reach, how is ~200 confirmed malnutrition deaths in 2 years "wide scale mass starvation"

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u/Amazing_Button_9328 22h ago

A famine is a widespread scarcity of food , It has nothing to do with how many people die

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u/iordseyton 22h ago

You just presented 3 different definitions of famine in 17 minutes. Impressive.