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Why aren't women and children being evacuated from gaza?

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AutumnFog · 24/07/2025 02:40

I've just seen horrific photos of starving children on a news article. Why on earth are we not evacuating them? The population isn't huge, if split between many countries the cost of supporting them would be minimal compared to other expenditure.
I don't understand how it's been left to get to this point without anyone intervening, or really how everyone hasn't intervened.
Who cares about the land at this point, these are children who are likely to die by the look of them, who could live a happy healthy life somewhere else.

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Dangermoo · 25/07/2025 08:05

nomoretoriesforme · 25/07/2025 08:01

I will be brutally honest why. Two reasons- non Caucasian ( considered less of a human for G7); not an ally ( no value for West). What we are seeing is a genocide

..and that explains non Caucasian jews being massacred, how? You're not being brutally honest, you're showing you have no knowledge.

nomoretoriesforme · 25/07/2025 08:01

I will be brutally honest why. Two reasons- non Caucasian ( considered less of a human for G7); not an ally ( no value for West). What we are seeing is a genocide

Comedycook · 25/07/2025 07:59

ComeAsYouAreAsAFriend · 25/07/2025 07:52

Proud of that comment are you? Or does it just reveal that you are denying the reality of what is happening? Shameful. Maybe do a bit of research about the impact of malnutrition and who it effects first and why.

Edited

I'm well aware of how it works...I've read several books on famine.

We were told over a year ago that Gaza was on the brink of famine....how long can people, even healthy adults survive without food.... certainly not more than a year.

The starving children I've seen on the news have had underlying medical conditions...tragic of course.

Mercurial123 · 25/07/2025 07:57

ComeAsYouAreAsAFriend · 25/07/2025 07:52

Proud of that comment are you? Or does it just reveal that you are denying the reality of what is happening? Shameful. Maybe do a bit of research about the impact of malnutrition and who it effects first and why.

Edited

It's the expected reactions from some posters. Deny the forced starvation and pick one or two words they can try to attack.

Dangermoo · 25/07/2025 07:57

ComeAsYouAreAsAFriend · 25/07/2025 07:55

It isn't a competition! What didn't happen was people on here deny or belittle what happened to them and showed nothing but horror and empathy. Most rational thinking people don't like to see anyone suffering and don't deny the realty of what is happening

When you say it's not a competition, can you remember that when the numbers of fatalities are compared via IDF and Hamas. This happens regularly. Thanks.

XXLfiles · 25/07/2025 07:57

I recently visited Jordan and they cannot (even if they were willing, understandably they are not) take more in. The situation in the area is dire. They are only just now starting to see movement of Syrians back to Syria. The north is fucked, the poverty is something many who never seen it cannot imagine properly.
The infrastructure in many areas is not keeping up.
"Why don't they take them? Don't they have heart?" is quite crass thinking about nation hosting millions of refugees to their own detriment if I am honest.
And anyone else has learned their own lessons before. No one wants to risk destabilising their country at the time when stability is needed and frankly, rare.

ComeAsYouAreAsAFriend · 25/07/2025 07:55

Dangermoo · 25/07/2025 07:50

I wonder if those sources produced a similar poster for Shiri, and her murdered babies, Ariel and Kfir Bibas.

It isn't a competition! What didn't happen was people on here deny or belittle what happened to them and showed nothing but horror and empathy. Most rational thinking people don't like to see anyone suffering and don't deny the realty of what is happening

ComeAsYouAreAsAFriend · 25/07/2025 07:52

Comedycook · 25/07/2025 07:07

And where are the starving adults?

Proud of that comment are you? Or does it just reveal that you are denying the reality of what is happening? Shameful. Maybe do a bit of research about the impact of malnutrition and who it effects first and why.

Dangermoo · 25/07/2025 07:50

nomoretreats · 25/07/2025 05:35

😢😢😢😢😢

I wonder if those sources produced a similar poster for Shiri, and her murdered babies, Ariel and Kfir Bibas.

Misssssssfoxx · 25/07/2025 07:46

StarlightRobot · 24/07/2025 20:33

Why is the West being blamed for all of this when the Arab world is doing nothing whatsoever to help its neighbours?

This .

Dangermoo · 25/07/2025 07:40

nomoretreats · 25/07/2025 05:25

You’ve have spent this entire thread spouting nonsense. Why should the Palestinians leave their own land? Just because Israel wants to turn it into some sun soaked tourist spot?

Your views are so warped and depressing but sadly not unheard of on this platform. Just for a moment have some empathy for those women and children who are being killed relentlessly for no reason. Being starved to death. I’m assuming you’re a mother. Imagine it was your child that you couldn’t help. Imagine your child was standing in a queue to get food and got killed for just being there.

Don’t believe the news outlets. Ignore speakers like Finkelstein or even politicians like Bernie Sanders who are shouting it from the rooftops.

What about the aid agencies? Look at what Save the Children, UNICEF and others are saying. They are neutral and aren’t politically motivated.

Enjoy your world where Israel can do no wrong, everyone is lying and the photos of starved children are fake.

Karma is a bitch.

Oh and I'd like to know what you mean by karma is a bitch.

Dangermoo · 25/07/2025 07:38

Bumble6 · 25/07/2025 07:19

Good points. It's something that so many people seem to brush over when discussing this conflict because their hatred for anything Israeli is so strong now.
If Israel suddenly allowed all citizens to leave Gaza, many other countries, due to things that have occurred in the past, would not be keen to take refugees from there anyway.
I've not seen many mentions of what happened in places like Kuwait.
It's all very well people shouting at anyone who discusses these things saying that they don't care about children dying etc but it's so important to look at what has happened in this region for so many years and why it's really not as simple as just saying we need to stop all the killing immediately.
I want this awful situation to end ASAP but there needs to be discussions, as uncomfortable as they might be, as to why and how things have got to this place to start with.

Well said but you're talking into space.

Dangermoo · 25/07/2025 07:36

nomoretreats · 25/07/2025 05:25

You’ve have spent this entire thread spouting nonsense. Why should the Palestinians leave their own land? Just because Israel wants to turn it into some sun soaked tourist spot?

Your views are so warped and depressing but sadly not unheard of on this platform. Just for a moment have some empathy for those women and children who are being killed relentlessly for no reason. Being starved to death. I’m assuming you’re a mother. Imagine it was your child that you couldn’t help. Imagine your child was standing in a queue to get food and got killed for just being there.

Don’t believe the news outlets. Ignore speakers like Finkelstein or even politicians like Bernie Sanders who are shouting it from the rooftops.

What about the aid agencies? Look at what Save the Children, UNICEF and others are saying. They are neutral and aren’t politically motivated.

Enjoy your world where Israel can do no wrong, everyone is lying and the photos of starved children are fake.

Karma is a bitch.

Oh wouldn't you just like me to shut up? What you don't like and you're not on your own, is that I don't buy what you've been sold. You don't want to see anything other than Israel is evil. Everything you've quoted, which I raised, discredits the insular belief that nothing else is relevant in the conflict. I'm very annoyed that an extremely relevant post has been deleted, but I will be taking that up with MN. That's what you've resorted to, when you don't like the historical truth. The truth is very different to personal attacks, of which I am frequently on the receiving end. It's the way liberals roll.

Mercurial123 · 25/07/2025 07:30

Jerrypicker · 24/07/2025 17:29

The starving children thing has already been debunked. It’s Palestinian propaganda. They basically put children who have cancer in front of the camera and make them say things for the footage. I saw it on YouTube.

You saw it on You Tube so it must be true right? Who was spreading the lies and misinformation?

Bumble6 · 25/07/2025 07:19

Tiredofwhataboutery · 24/07/2025 21:04

I think this is true it suits the propaganda look at what Israel has done propped up by the West.

I think the reality there’s millions of people displaced by war and starving by conflicts within the region before you even consider this war. I think people harden up to it. Egypt has been struggling with a massive refugee population for years, over a million from Sudan since 2023. A conflict that has generated many starving children that hardly anyone cares about.

Palestinian refugees are a seen as a poisoned chalice with their brotherly extremism and tendency to try towards takeovers. I mean if you were Jordan would you?

Good points. It's something that so many people seem to brush over when discussing this conflict because their hatred for anything Israeli is so strong now.
If Israel suddenly allowed all citizens to leave Gaza, many other countries, due to things that have occurred in the past, would not be keen to take refugees from there anyway.
I've not seen many mentions of what happened in places like Kuwait.
It's all very well people shouting at anyone who discusses these things saying that they don't care about children dying etc but it's so important to look at what has happened in this region for so many years and why it's really not as simple as just saying we need to stop all the killing immediately.
I want this awful situation to end ASAP but there needs to be discussions, as uncomfortable as they might be, as to why and how things have got to this place to start with.

Comedycook · 25/07/2025 07:07

Jerrypicker · 24/07/2025 17:29

The starving children thing has already been debunked. It’s Palestinian propaganda. They basically put children who have cancer in front of the camera and make them say things for the footage. I saw it on YouTube.

And where are the starving adults?

Bumble6 · 25/07/2025 06:45

nomoretreats · 24/07/2025 17:33

See what Norman Finkelstein has said/written. His parents were actual Holocaust survivors. That could be a good starting point.

I'd also be aware of things he's said in the past before using him as an example.

nomoretreats · 25/07/2025 05:35

😢😢😢😢😢

Why aren't women and children being evacuated from gaza?
nomoretreats · 25/07/2025 05:25

Dangermoo · 25/07/2025 03:05

Exactly. Notice how none of Israel's detractors ever post in response to arab neighbours not taking in Palestinians. Well, except to pull you apart on describing how Palestinians are viewed by those neighbours.

You’ve have spent this entire thread spouting nonsense. Why should the Palestinians leave their own land? Just because Israel wants to turn it into some sun soaked tourist spot?

Your views are so warped and depressing but sadly not unheard of on this platform. Just for a moment have some empathy for those women and children who are being killed relentlessly for no reason. Being starved to death. I’m assuming you’re a mother. Imagine it was your child that you couldn’t help. Imagine your child was standing in a queue to get food and got killed for just being there.

Don’t believe the news outlets. Ignore speakers like Finkelstein or even politicians like Bernie Sanders who are shouting it from the rooftops.

What about the aid agencies? Look at what Save the Children, UNICEF and others are saying. They are neutral and aren’t politically motivated.

Enjoy your world where Israel can do no wrong, everyone is lying and the photos of starved children are fake.

Karma is a bitch.

GeneralPeter · 25/07/2025 03:20

It serves the political and security interests of Hamas, Israel, the surrounding Arab states, and much of the West to have them stay. And Arab states have learned from experience that Palestinians they have sheltered have often ended up destabilising their politics.

Dangermoo · 25/07/2025 03:05

cremedelacraps · 24/07/2025 22:21

I think a good question is why doesn’t Egypt open its border with Gaza?

Eqypt doesn't want them but this is an uncomfortable truth so people ignore it.

Exactly. Notice how none of Israel's detractors ever post in response to arab neighbours not taking in Palestinians. Well, except to pull you apart on describing how Palestinians are viewed by those neighbours.

Dangermoo · 25/07/2025 03:01

Teaforthetotal · 24/07/2025 22:05

Admitted that i hate genoicide? I do. Keir Starmer has spoken out about the horror there this evening too. I mean, obviously heard this on BBC but upthread you've said you don't trust them as a source.
Everyone's speaking out now!

I was talking about being selective in what you choose to believe, and what should be highlighted for bias. Talking of being selective, Is this the Keir Starmer, whose name has been mud? Of course the UK PM is going to talk about a humanitarian crisis. He also called for Hamas to release the hostages.

cremedelacraps · 24/07/2025 22:21

I think a good question is why doesn’t Egypt open its border with Gaza?

Eqypt doesn't want them but this is an uncomfortable truth so people ignore it.

Teaforthetotal · 24/07/2025 22:05

Admitted that i hate genoicide? I do. Keir Starmer has spoken out about the horror there this evening too. I mean, obviously heard this on BBC but upthread you've said you don't trust them as a source.
Everyone's speaking out now!

MagicTape · 24/07/2025 21:56

Because the Palestinians in the Middle East are about as popular as the Roma in Europe. Nobody wants them and nobody is going to open up the borders to let them in.

Egypt turned on Palestinians in the 60s and 70s and has only got more repressive, particularly in relation to anything they perceive as Islamic terrorism (having had their own issues with Muslim Brotherhood - they're not going to be cheerily welcoming in anyone who might conceivably be associated with Hamas, by which they mean anyone in Gaza).

Lebanon keeps Palestinians literally behind walls, which were just about large enough to accommodate them at the end of WWII but is nowhere near sufficient for future generations. The Lebanese government gives zero fucks about the human rights of the Palestinians there. They are mostly denied citizenship, identity documents, education, employment and freedom of movement.

Jordan doesn't allow all Palestinians citizenship particularly anyone from Gaza. ECOI information says that they live in poverty and suffer continuous discrimination.

Syria's on fire.

The innocent people in Gaza should be evacuated - the problem is that the neighbouring countries are very cynical about who is an innocent person, and don't want them even if they are. And would Hamas allow their civilian shield to be evacuated anyway? I'n not at all sure that they would, even if a country could be found which would willingly take them. I'd gladly vote (from my glorious position as a voting woman in a democratic society) for a policy which would bring civilian Gazan Palestinians here to the UK, but I strongly suspect I would not be on the winning side of that vote.

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