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‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza (edition.cnn.com)

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[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 80 points 5 months ago

As a parent the idea of not being able to obtain food for my child is literally a worst nightmare.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 61 points 5 months ago

The IPC, (the people responsible for tracking and declaring famines), have released a report saying this is going to get very bad very quickly if aid isn't allowed in.

This is entirely avoidable and creating a famine is not in anyone's textbook of legitimate military strategies.

[-] youngGoku@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well in the medieval textbooks it was a valid strategy....

But this is horrific and along the lines of torture. Genocide and death by forced starvation are disgusting, despicable things that should not be happening in this modern era.

Netanyahu... or however you spell his name... will go down in history next to Hitler, sadly, and the Biden administration supporting this genocide is on the wrong side of history.

Even with all this said, I'm probably still voting for Biden in 2024. 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

FPTP is barely democratic. It leaves us with vote against who you want the least. 😕

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Well in the medieval textbooks it was a valid strategy…

Embracing medievalism to own the heretics.

[-] Kiosade@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

For once, I’m glad I live in California, so I don’t have to actually vote for Biden this time (because everyone else will).

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 11 points 5 months ago

I'm glad I live in Utah where I will definitely (and defiantly) vote for Biden because nobody else in this baboons butt-red state has the decency or morals to do so.

[-] ToucheGoodSir@lemy.lol 4 points 5 months ago

Aha, another Utahn lemmy connesiur in the wild. I've tried to convince many to make the transition, dunno if a single one actually has.

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[-] Brcht@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

With how bad Trump is, it's understandable. But make sure to vote pro palestinian candidates if there are any in primaries or on the ballot.

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[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 44 points 5 months ago

Welcome to the world of modern society. Actually this war's been going on since I was a kid in the 60s, it's just gotten more vicious with newer weaponry and more ability to kill children and starve people out of their homeland. What a wonderful species we human beings are.

[-] Doorbook@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

I think it is modern social media and internet that help put this in world stage. Before you have to believe news paper or whoever own the radio. Now you can't hide the truth.

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

Certainly newspapers, social media and the internet have all helped to "shrink" the world so that anything horrible that happens, we know about it instantly. This can make it seem like the world is becoming a more horrible place to live every day.

But there are good stories out there too, we just don't hear about them - after all, they don't make money for the newscasters or the internet icons.....if you can have a huge following just by showing cruelty to others, that's what people will do.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 40 points 5 months ago

USA, how long does this need to go on? Until genocide is completed? This is horrific.

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

Like I said earlier, this conflict (among many others) has been going on since at least before I was born in 1959. It never ends. One side or the other always looks for an excuse to use their weapons on "those people on the other side." If it's not about a strip of land it's about religious beliefs or holy jihads or oil rights or something else. It never will end until that final stroke of the nuclear clock.

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[-] LSNLDN@slrpnk.net 34 points 5 months ago

Dying implies this is happening passively… they are being killed

[-] Allero 21 points 5 months ago

Genocided, essentially

[-] Brcht@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Meanwhile some totally not complicit countries have cut funding to the unrwa for political gain.

I know the blockade and bombings impeding access to umanitarian trucks is a giant issue, but the impending collapse of the main provider of aid is the one thing we can colletively stop, donating to the unrwa directly.

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[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Western journalists right now

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 24 points 5 months ago

Holodomor 2.0

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[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Of the around 600,000 people facing starvation across the globe, 95% are now in Gaza

according to figures from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, a consortium of U.N. agencies and nonprofit relief groups. The figures, which the group says are their best assessment of the current situation, show that the rest live in South Sudan, which has been riven by a brutal civil war since spring 2023.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 5 months ago

There are less than a million people who are starving in the world? Really?

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think there's multiple classifications of food scarcity. Starvation is different than being hungry.

The source is

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, a consortium of U.N

Unless we take the "UN is Hamas" route this number seems credible

People are eating grass in Gaza right now.

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[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Public opinion is definitely skewing more towards Palestine, at least here in Britain. Where I live, I genuinely saw a pro-Palestine march back in October attended by thousands, along with Palestinian flags waved everywhere around town. Haven't seen any Israeli flags or marchers by comparison, and I don't think that's out of fear.

The only people I've seen genuinely throw support towards Israel have been Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer.

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