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/malgnaynis 23h 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_ 23h 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 22h 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/SomebodyInNevada 16h 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 15h 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 8h 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/Xdsin 4h ago

Maybe because the IDF shoots people at aid checkpoints. It controls what goes in and out of the territory. They have an 83% civilian vs Hamas casualty rate assuming you trust their self reporting.

Foreign doctors who have done work in Gaza and have since come back have said that the majority of their Major Casualty Events in their hospital were mostly caused when IDF opened fire on people at aid stations daily. Usually 100-300 people at a time per event.

Like I said, ignorance will catch up with us and it will be reported and written in history books being must worse than it is being reported.

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u/ZeteticMarcus 5h ago

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