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Uncle Joe

(62,894 posts)
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 06:32 PM Jul 25

Video shows dire starvation crisis in Gaza



Distressing video shows the dire effects of the starvation crisis gripping Gaza. Humanitarian aid organizations blame Israeli policies for the crisis and urge Israel to end its blockade of the enclave. Israel says Hamas is at fault. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports. #CNN #News
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AloeVera

(3,626 posts)
1. Effing Air Drops?
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:03 PM
Jul 25

The least effective and dangerous method? Totally unsurprising though sickening.

There are 6,000 truck loads of aid waiting right outside the border that the UN has been begging to be let in that Israel has refused.

Yesterday Israel claimed to have let in 950 truckloads and claims the "UN refuses to deliver it". A big whopping lie, or as a UN official said, "a theater of the absurd". The UN is trying but faces the same old obstacles. For one thing their main aid hub with trucks, personnel, and warehouses has been bombed and is located in a city that Israel a few days ago decided, by some cosmic coincidence of timing to invade and attack. The last city with any aid infrastructure left. For another, yesterday Israel refused half of the UN's requests to pick up aid and imposed byzantine approval requirements for those it did approve - as usual. Last Sunday the IDF killed many dozens of starving aid seekers who approached the UN trucks. It's dangerous for the humanitarians and the starving, deliberately made so.

To intentionally starve people is genocidal. Not just because it kills people and in an especially cruel way, but also because it breaks an entire society. The circumstances of living in a famine lead to trauma, shame, silence and physical, mental and developmental stunting for generations. Israel will also pay for this for generations.

Uncle Joe

(62,894 posts)
2. It's just a stunt that isn't even as large as a fig leaf. They know they're as guilty as Epstein, but even worse
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:22 PM
Jul 25

because he didn't commit genocide.

AloeVera

(3,626 posts)
4. Yeah they'll make a big show of it to deflect from the emaciated bodies in the morgues.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 11:06 PM
Jul 25

And in hospitals and tents that the world is just starting to see. Watch for the gaslighting, blame-shifting and deflection to explode now.


Yes, they know they are guilty. How can they not know - they devised and implemented the entire vile plan to starve Gaza. They also know why it is being done and are fine with that too. Average Israeli citizens are fine with it too.

The genocidal intent is proven by the consistently deliberate actions that led to genocidal results. A total moral collapse of a nation.

Crowman2009

(3,223 posts)
3. Unfortunately some of the Israeli govt. defenders in DU think this is perfectly fine.
Fri Jul 25, 2025, 07:54 PM
Jul 25

WTF is wrong with them?

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