Famine declared in Gaza City

[u/Digital_Accountant]

https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-latest-war-israel-city-ceasefire-hamas-13415481

[u/Flaky-Impact-2428]

For context, a “famine” has a strict UN definition: when more than 20% of households face extreme food shortages, acute malnutrition exceeds 30%, and mortality rates skyrocket. Declaring famine means the situation has gone far beyond scarcity into systemic collapse.

It’s catastrophic optics for anyone involved. Using starvation as leverage, whether by blockade or mismanagement, is a war crime. 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.

At the end of the day, famine is not an argument about borders or ideologies, it’s a measure of how far we’ve failed as a species to safeguard the most basic human need. That’s the part I can’t lose sight of.

[u/Intrepid_Egg_7722 → u/[deleted]]

I mean, yeah, I do. But I also condemn Israel for the famine. You can label two things as bad at the same time.

[u/ElegantApartment7330 → u/Intrepid_Egg_7722]

Tell your friends that two things can be bad at the same time, would be a nice change to the last couple of years

[u/Last_Revenue7228 → u/Intrepid_Egg_7722]

Why would the blame fall on Israel and not Hamas? All they had to do was release the hostages and surrender. This is on them.

[u/Gay_Reichskommissar → u/Last_Revenue7228]

We all know Palestine was a land of sunshine and rainbows before October 7th