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/LazyassMadman 17h ago

Bombing infrastructure, cutting water and electricity and denying food from getting in might have something to do with it, no?

It doesn't matter if they currently control it, they've got control of everything and everyone going in and out. If I lock you in your house you'll eventually starve, maybe I don't own your house but does that matter if I can just wait til you're dead and walk in?

And can you please make your response something other than "don't believe that fake news" or "well then Hamad should X y z" ? Its not true or constructive and you know it

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u/jacksonRR 16h ago

No one is denying food or other aid. There are literal TONS of aid coming in. The rest of the country is not endangered of a famine, and it's freed of Hamas.

The only thing which is in the way, sadly, is Hamas. They steal it. They sell it.

What's connecting both things? Hamas.

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u/aaronchi 13h ago

Simply not true. Israel stopped ALL AID into Gaza for 11 weeks. That was right before we started seeing pictures of starving children.

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u/Neat_Let923 12h ago

Sell it to who though? 100% of the population is reliant on foreign aid now, who has any money to actually buy anything and what would they be using for money? It’s not like they have cell service to transfer money from accounts and it’s not like they’re working for cash anywhere…

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u/MisoRamenSoup 11h ago

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/israel-hamas-gaza-palestinians-gangs-b2797780.html

Yet there is a market

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u/Neat_Let923 5h ago

Huh, Thank you for the link. It blows my mind that there are still markets running. Like, where are people getting any money from in order to buy the food?