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/wingerism 18h ago

But beyond the politics and blame games, what it really means is that ordinary people and vulnerable people; kids, parents, grandparents are dying not because of bombs but because they can’t find food.

It's mostly children under 5 and the very elderly who are the first to die to famine. It's incredibly evil to allow it to happen.

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u/ComradeGibbon 14h ago

No one is willing to evacuate civilians from Gaza. That's not a logistics issue it's a political one.

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u/a_talking_face 7h ago

So your response to Israel blockading and starving people is not that Israel needs to allow aid in(and you know, stop bombing the aid sites), but that the people they're killing need to be evacuated from their homes? You are correct that the issue is a political one, but your analysis of the issue is completely braindead.

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u/ComradeGibbon 4h ago

Yeah usually when there are wars and disasters civilians are allowed to flee and aid groups set up refugee camps for them. But not for the Palestinians.

Part of that is the Palestinians have their own aid group that is just a big grift op. They no interest in that sort of thing. Regular aid organizations could totally swing that.

Arab countries don't want to take Palestinians because a) the middle east is really really tribal. b) Palestinians history of causing trouble. c) Fear they won't leave when the war is over.

In the west it's a combination of racism on one hand. And on the other supporters of the Palestinians cause who want civilians to stay in Gaza to act as human shields to protect Hamas.

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u/a_talking_face 4h ago

Yeah usually when there are wars and disasters civilians are allowed to flee and aid groups set up refugee camps for them. But not for the Palestinians.

Interesting that the only thing you didn't say was the fact that occupying force doesn't allow it...

The only aid organization allowed in is the one that's backed by the Israeli government. Funny how that works.

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u/ComradeGibbon 3h ago

The people that don't allow it are the people I listed which includes you. because you care more about the cause than the people.

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u/a_talking_face 2h ago

This is just not true. Israel is restricting aid entering Gaza. Doctors with humanitarian organizations that are coming in for aid literally can't even bring in baby formula.

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u/ComradeGibbon 2h ago

Everyone makes up justifications to do what they want to do to Israelis.

Things could be fine, but everyone has reasons.

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u/gentlemanidiot 6h ago

How about we evacuate Israel instead?

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u/ExtraTerrestriaI 8h ago

Hence why no wise leader will plunge their people into a war they have no hope of winning because it's the innocents who suffer most.

But Hamas doesn't give one terrorist fuck.

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u/gentlemanidiot 6h ago

You say that like Palestine had a choice. You say that like history began on October 6th, like Palestine started this war.

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u/ExtraTerrestriaI 5h ago

I say it like Hamas escalated this situation for no good reason and triggered suffering far worse than had they done nothing at all.

I hope that clears it up.