‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza
‘We are dying slowly.’ Children go to bed hungry and parents scavenge for food as famine looms in Gaza | CNN
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.
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. 😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
FPTP is barely democratic. It leaves us with vote against who you want the least. 😕
Edit: English
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).
Well in the medieval textbooks it was a valid strategy…
Embracing medievalism to own the heretics.
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.
You don't have to go to medieval ages. It was legal to put certain ethnic groups in concentration camps only 80 years ago. Encouraged even....
Genocide Joe must be punished for his support of israel.
If you vote Biden this time it directly signals the Democrats that there is no line they are not allowed to cross.
These animal farmers are making famines worse by driving up demand for cropland and input allocation towards feed crops. The more money is shoved into the animal farming industry, the more famine there will be in the world.
edit: if you feed food to food, you're wasting food. This isn't some obscure fact. The free market on inputs and even on land allocates the resources to who pays more - and subsidies allow the animal industry to pay more, to buy more land, to buy more inputs.
The future is plant-based. Anyone who doesn't want people to die of hunger agrees with this.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1713820115
Global farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use, raising food security risks https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/global-farmers-facing-fertiliser-sticker-shock-may-cut-use-raising-food-security-2021-12-09/
Yeah, I don't think that's actually the main reason the people of Gaza are starving right now.
We get it, you're a vegan. Now, just for one second, try to not be self-centred and ask yourself whether, if you were in Gaza right now, and all you had was a thick, juicy, steak, you would eat it.
The answer is yes. If your answer is "no" then you don't understand the situation there, you don't understand hunger, try again until you do.
Mate, read the room. Tone deaf posts like this are a good reason why people hate vegans. And this is coming from a fellow vegan. Palestine isn't going to avoid famine by switching to vegan now; that's completely insane! And it would still be starving even it was 100% vegan, due to, you know, a fucking genocide happening.
Animal farmers are much more likely to prevent this specific famine - when you're displaced from your home, there is no chance you'll harvest and bring your crops. There is a chance you can bring some animals with you.
I understand your point, but there's a time and place for that, and that is absolutely not here.
Yeah but there's enough calories to do this right on the other side of the Israeli Gaza border. The Israeli's could end this, right now.
tone deaf post
The problem is not a lack of food. The problem is a lack of logistics to get the food to the people. And the cause of the problem is not farmers. It is the regions most powerful military activly blocking aid. Soon it will also be because the government of said country successfully lobbied to defund the aid organization with established networks with Gaza.
The solution is simple. Don't activly block food from Gaza, and food will appear in Gaza. Almost like magic. If magic was the result of decades of hard work in building a new world order after world war 2.
Feel free to educate me if I am wrong, but I vaguely remember reading somewhere that famine happens due to lack of logistics rather than lack of limited food in the world. I still think future is plant based for other reasons(emissions, cost, etc) but is the solution to famines producing more food or providing more logistics? Or maybe a combination of both?
I appreciated the info. I agree too! The circle v thing in your profile name is cool.
Dying implies this is happening passively… they are being killed
Genocided, essentially
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.
Western journalists right now
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.
Here in Canada it's the opposite. Isreali flags everywhere, pro-isreali counter protesters attending every Palestinian event.
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It was clear that this is how it's going to go, Israel planned this. The deliberatley destroyed all the infrastructure and sealed them in. I knew the body count would rise to possibly a million. It is a genocide.
Presumably Israel hopes to push the Palestinians out to Egypt or other countries. That is Israel's "Final Solution".
My european country supports this genocide by backing Israel. I feel deeply ashamed.
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.
There are less than a million people who are starving in the world? Really?
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.
It's being reported as an "opinion piece", but I see no markers on the article indicating that.
Here's an example of a CNN opinion piece:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/31/opinions/taylor-swift-deepfakes-ai-segall/index.html
Y'all can stop reporting this now, I'm not removing it.
Quit fucking spamming
In addition to the increased tax burden and European agriculture policies that they say are threatening their ability to survive, the French farmers also want more concessions from the government to combat rising costs of fuel and animal feed.
There it is. Welfare for business owners.
edit: nice, I commented on the wrong post. The confusion is impressive.
And since nobody mentioned it, they're to blame too. It means none of them read the article and figured out that the quoted part above is from a different post entirely.
Food aid does reach Gaza, but Hamas steals it all.
"The womb of the woman will be our strongest weapon against the Zionists!"
Seems to be a humanitarian crisis of their own doing....
Imagine if all their concrete and rebar had gone to actual humanitarian projects instead of tunnels and bases to conduct terrorism from...
Seems to be a humanitarian crisis of their own doing…
Houthis saying the exact same thing as the traffic through the Suez declines by 82%
As a parent the idea of not being able to obtain food for my child is literally a worst nightmare.
Your nightmares are tame, my worst nightmare is an 87-foot Donald Duck that eats memories.
Making a joke on a comment like that, on a post like this... 🤨
Daily reminder that Donald Duck is based AF. He is canonically a war vet with PTSD, and is at least a socialist if not a full blown communist.
Donald would be protesting the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people.
If it eats bad memories then that sound kinda sick tbh