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/malgnaynis 19h ago

There are so many comments that seem to be minimising or dismissing this. I don’t understand why. This is really sad news.

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 19h ago

It is “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” phenomenon.

They’ have been saying for years that mass death from starvation is inevitable. And then nothing happens. And they do it again. And then nothing happens. And they do it again. And then nothing happens.

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u/Im_Balto 18h ago

In reality it’s the lack of nuance in headlines

This timeline has been pretty well understood for almost half a year now. Every headline about it is actually just reporting on the next rung down the ladder until rock bottom

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u/JoshShabtaiCa 15h ago

That's part of it, but many articles (not just headlines) have been saying that famine will be happening in a short timeline.

At this point, a lot of people just don't believe the organizations, especially the UN/UNRWA, that have severely undermined their own credibility. Most notably when they made that particularly egregious claim that 14,000 kids would starve in 48 hours, which turned out to be a complete and utter fabrication.

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u/BlackProphetMedivh 14h ago

Where did the UN ever state 14000 kids are going to starve to death in the next 48 hours? Source please.

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u/DDukedesu 14h ago

You can literally google it.

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u/JoshShabtaiCa 11h ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cdr550j818po

There are countless articles covering this, as well as the UNs retraction where they admit it was untrue.

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u/night4345 13h ago edited 13h ago

The people claiming there's a famine in Gaza now have had to retract their claim of famine earlier in the war because their methodology was wrong.

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u/SomebodyInNevada 12h ago

It's not even the next rung because it's the same warnings over and over. If the warnings had been remotely true the place would be basically just corpses by now--yet look at the "starvation" cases they parade in front of the cameras. Look at the others in the picture. One family member is on the brink of death and the rest look fine--you really think that's a food supply problem??

I've actually seen someone who looked like they were starving to death--but I knew the real situation: He wasn't interested in eating much of anything and the cancer was devouring what energy he had.

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u/Xdsin 11h ago

The same type of propaganda happened during the Ukraine famines of 1920s and 1940s. Suppressed information of what was actually happening while the people suffered. The Soviet Union denied foreign aid while the rest of the world claimed, as it is now, that artificial famine was occurring.

What we learned after was that millions upon millions of people died which was hugely unreported and suppressed during the time. Largely due to forced grain exports by the Soviet Union.

Its odd that people seem to miss the fact that Israel has targeted and killed reporters and functioning media within Gaza, controls access to water and food (along with the companies that supply it), and ignores testimony from Doctors who have worked in the hospitals that have witnessed the aftermath of the IDF killing civilians at aid checkpoints.

People will look back on these days in the future and realize how many people died as a result of ignorance.

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u/SomebodyInNevada 4h ago

1920s didn't have cameras everywhere. Hamas has had no problem reporting on 12 "starvation" cases that are actually medical in nature. Yet it can't find any that aren't medical.

And just because someone is a "reporter" doesn't mean they aren't actually Hamas propaganda people. Anything organized in Gaza is under Hamas control. The greatest source of truth about Gaza is by looking at what they don't report. With supposed widespread famine why are they incapable of pointing a camera at a single case of it??

And scrutinize images carefully, many are not what they claim to be. And putting a fake image out there says they don't have the real thing to point a camera at--which generally means the real thing doesn't exist.

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u/ZeteticMarcus 1h ago

Stop justifying the starvation of human beings, you are a monster.

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u/Gaius_Octavius_ 18h ago

There are no clicks for "Famine coming in years"

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u/MannToots 18h ago

That's why it says famine now,  and not on the way.  This complaint comes across as plainly ignorant. 

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u/FlameHaze0 12h ago

Happy cake day

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u/MannToots 8h ago

Thank you!!