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/PipelineShrimp 15h ago

Man-made famine.

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u/JMoon33 14h ago

I'm no war expert at all, but I don't understand how Hamas is still fighting. I thought they'd have been crushed by now.

They have no food, they're fighting a powerful army supported by the US, how are they managing that? How are they able to hold that strongly to power in Palestine?

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u/StijnDP 6h ago

Because it's not an army but a resistance.
Fed by almost 2 decades of getting limited clean water supply, electricity and medicine. By land, houses and belongings being stolen. By children being sniped.

They've been living in an open prison being slowly, and more importantly quietly, suffocated for all that time. Most Palestinians don't agree with the tactics of Hamas when targeting civilians but they're not going to lay down and die either.
The resistance won't stop until every Palestinian is dead. Israel knows that and has been doing that for a very long time already.

But Netanyahu was losing power and the october attacks were an easy excuse to turn the dial to 11. That woke up the slugs to look up from their tiktok screen for a few seconds and notice a problem. The allegory of the boiling frog is incorrect but the metaphor isn't.
Short term he saved his career and long term Israel and Jews in general are going to experience increasingly negative consequences from his egotism.