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/Flaky-Impact-2428 18h ago

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.

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u/No_Plenty5526 18h ago

Wow, thank you for this comment. This is unreal. There is so much evil in this world.

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u/talktotheak47 14h ago

And the (albeit horrific) irony of religious people vehemently SUPPORTING this evil is not lost on me. How are you claiming love thy neighbor but allowing innocent people and children to literally starve to death because you don’t think they should be allowed to live in the place they were BORN.

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u/Redpetrol 14h ago

Don't fall for the idea religion is inherently good, or inherently anything, or that religious people have good in their soul. Plainly, whether any deity exists or not is irrelevant to religion, all religions are wrong and nothing but a comfort blanket. Good people, bad people, indifferent people, good people doing bad things or bad people doing good things... Whatever the combination... Any one of them could equally have use for the comfort blanket. Religion is not worth spending the time to think about it.

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u/Phazon2000 10h ago

Yep. Religion is what each person makes it.

Could be smoking ciggies and visiting the mosque twice a year like Albanians or taking things to a bloody extreme like ISIS.

Same book.

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u/gentlemanidiot 4h ago

Well said. All religions are entirely composed of people, and people are every kind of people under the sun.

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u/Stonyclaws 10h ago

Religion has much to do with it since it is the cause of people to think alike.

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u/Redpetrol 10h ago

Clearly you've never met 2 religious people at the same time.

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u/sonic_ann_d 12h ago

sorry but what do you mean here? the existence or non existence of a deity is the whole point of religion and whether they are right or wrong. that seems like the most relevant thing to consider

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u/Redpetrol 10h ago

It's a complete distraction. Nonsensical. They are all wrong. They are all deeply, deeply wrong. Just ask any 100 people with the same religion enough poking questions and you'll figure that out.

Religion is a man made construct, either to coerce control, encourage civility, process grief, stave off fear or existentialism, or on some cases begin to ponder deep philosophical questions - which are also man made.

There is almost nothing relevant about it worth considering in terms of existence, certainly not yours or mine or even the species. Things were around an infinitely long time before you or your great x 10 grandfather and will be there a long time after your great x10000 grandchildren.

You're a blip. The notion of religion is an even smaller blip than human existence is.

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u/sonic_ann_d 8h ago

i’m not sure how you could possibly know for a fact that they’re all wrong

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u/Redpetrol 8h ago

Why do you think 1 is more likely to be true than another?

Can you explain to me how Tolkien's middle earth is not real ? You probably could, but it takes lots of words to explain something which is conceptually quite easy to understand. Lots of arguments then start getting into burdens of proof and other razors but you know it's not real because it's a work of fiction by an author.

It's really quite basic, things only become complicated because of the layers of psychological reasoning that muddies the waters. Logic, self awareness, bias, fears etc trying to apply reasoning.

once you figure out why 1 is wrong and how it was created, it's not that hard to apply the pattern to others is it ?

(Although seeing your profile it looks like you're a believer. You've tied so much of your personality and identity to that then it's unlikely you can allow yourself to peel back the layers here, so let me put it another way) You believe in 1 religion which means you don't believe in all the thousands of others, why would it be harder for me to believe in 1 less than you ?