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[–] [email protected] 80 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 7 months ago (34 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

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. 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Well in the medieval textbooks it was a valid strategy…

Embracing medievalism to own the heretics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Dying implies this is happening passively… they are being killed

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Western journalists right now

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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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