Malnourished starving children in Gaza

They could have stopped it last week, last month, or last year.

this from Wikipedia

In short, they want the prisoners hamas took (remember, they started all of this) and some sort of insurance against them deciding to nip out first thing Monday morning and do it all again.

Not unreasonable. I’d feel the same. Wouldn’t you?

Why are you persistently pontificating about definitions of 'famine' @Comedycook. Do you think children on the brink of death are bothered about whether famine has been 'officially declared' or 'oh look, what's happening in Yemen,' or 'well some people have underlying health conditions after all.' WTAF!

Seriously, what is it you need here?

Of course some children in Gaza will have 'underlying health conditions.' So would your children if their homes had been turned to rubble. Imagine if your children had lost family members or were orphaned or injured themselves. If they had been forced to drink contaminated water and had been living on very basic rations. Living in tents in close proximity to others, ie. conditions where disease runs rife.

Of course it's always infants, the elderly and the sick who are most vulnerable as famine takes hold of a population. This hardly needs to be said.

Do you think you know better than the medics on the ground in Gaza who are clearly stating that famine is taking hold? What do you want to wait for? How bad do things have to get? What is your point?

In the meantime what happens to these children?

How do you know this?

How can you keep your, 'emotions in check' seeing those images, this is Mumsnet, of all places to be so detached about children dying of starvation!

Why do you think it isn't available? Do you know that it is being taken out of the suitcases of International doctors by Israel as they try to enter Gaza? How does knowing that Israel are taking life saving formula from the Drs trying to help them make you feel?

All Hamas have to do is release the remaining hostages. Israel will immediately provide food, water and humanitarian aid. Israel will release all the Palestinians it has been torturing, including children. Then rebuild all the destroyed infrastructure. Hamas are easy to spot as they're well fed.

How could Hamas stop it tomorrow?

What a stupid teacher. There is no comparison. What are the Israeli children supposed to think? Their country is constantly under attack despite efforts to protect themselves and agree to ceasefires. Hamas are always the ones pushing boundaries and starting everything up again. Are children supposed to learn they should not protect themselves from these attacks? This is nothing like Hitler.

War is cruel and those who tragically suffer are the innocents. Hamas could stop it tomorrow but they are getting well fed.

Also ‘that’s sad but it’s not famine is it’, my god. I hope you’re a troll

so you think there’s loads of food available just no child formula or medicine?

and every single starving child has a specific need? Even though there’s absolutely no evidence of this, and you haven’t presented any

Can you provide a link please? Where the starvation is due to all these underlying conditions.

Ok so that's sad but it's not famine is it? It's deaths because medicines aren't available and specialist foods? Which is pretty much what I said.

I have seen no such thing. I have seen a couple of stories about deaths due to a lack of supply of extremely basic medicines, and infant formula. I personally see this as making the whole picture worse. Don’t you?

Stop talking nonsense...it's on mainstream news....news reports where they show a child who is unwell and explain their situation...

Don’t they often get intercepted and the food destroyed?

Nobody can justify letting children starve to death, there’s not a good enough reason in the world.

Can you link to any of the reports? It's strange this isn't more widely reported.

Israel kicked out the largest distributor of aid, UNRWA a while ago. Since then aid has been distributed sparingly and people are starving to death. Unless of course you have evidence to the contrary.

Nobody’s blind to what Hamas are doing. But Israel’s been committing war crimes for a while now, as confirmed by a range of different international organisations. Medics, journalists, children: nobody is safe. Doctors raped to death, whole families wiped out whilst their children watch. And if one comments on this being appalling, we’re told that everyone likes to blame the Jews, and anti-semitism is wielded like a stick. False equivalences - why don’t you care about all the other wars? - as if we can’t care about it all.

October 7th was a tragedy. Sudan is a tragedy. Gaza is a tragedy. Mankind, driven by religion, glorying in slaughter. It’s sickening.

On news reports... invariably the children have had other medical conditions or need specialist food/milk which isn't available. Like I said, 'm not denying food shortages...I just question who has caused it and how it's being presented to us

I see. You're currently in Gaza and any starving children you've seen, you've examined and they've been found to have underlying conditions.

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I have only seen that Israel has blocked aid entering. Please supply sources for Hamas blocking aid

You said it was any you had seen. Did you mean in person?

This is exactly what people have a disagreement about.
Israel is not blocking the aid. It is Hamas that won’t distribute it, to make Israel look like the bad guy.
I can’t believe that some of you just want to throw mud at Israel at every opportunity, but are blind to what Hamas is doing to its own people.