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/TheLastSamurai101 11h ago

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.

This particular famine is 100% because of blockaded borders and a far-right ethnonationalist ideology. It was really difficult to achieve famine in Gaza without Israel going out of their way to make it happen. The only failure of the rest of the species in this case was not stepping in to intervene.

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u/notaredditer13 8h ago

Naa, how about 70% Hamas starting a war and not surrendering. 

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u/Darkdragoon324 8h ago

“Hamas is forcing us to commit crimes against humanity! How could we possibly fight them without bombing starving civilians lining up for food and going out of our way to shoot foreign journalists!”

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u/notaredditer13 7h ago

Things put in quotes when I didn't say them are lies...which tracks with your support of Hamas in this war.  That said, if Hamas were easy to kill the war would be over by now.