Gazan GHF workers left to die at hospital where Doctors Without Borders is.

@Twiglets1 that's a bit of an overreaction to a factual post. I didnt blame anyone , I was just commenting on another poster talking about the risks of this method of aid distribution as I had read about it the other day.
It was a very sad case of a child who was killed by a pallet falling on their head while trying to look for food something we can't imagine.

Act quickly to avert it.

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Nice try. I'm not anti-semitic 😉

The US have killed 6 million Muslims since 2003. For nothing. Bush is a war criminal.

So don't come putting words in my mouth.

There is plenty of official data and reliable news/ sources to prove there is a famine and this is a genocide.

Shalom. Salaam.

Apparently the air drops provide minuscule amounts of aid.

“The really big issue is aircraft can only deliver one truckload of aid. Gaza needs 500 truckloads a day, so it's 0.2% of the daily need,"

https://news.sky.com/story/why-are-airdrops-on-gaza-so-dangerous-13402889

This link shows that even Israel’s own data shows only 14% of aid needed has entered Gaza since May.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-only-14-per-cent-of-aid-needed-has-entered-gaza-since-may-israeli-data-shows

On a population level it isn’t going to make a difference to malnutrition levels, it won’t avert this impending disaster. It’s not enough and it’s not targeted. Israel let allies drop aid to placate them. Allies drop the aid to placate their own populations who are largely horrified by the images coming from Gaza. It is very expensive theatre.

If Israel were very concerned about aid being looted they would not allow completely untargeted aid drops that end up in the hands of the fittest or even those who are armed.

So David Collier, “award winning journalist” and professional propagandist has diagnosed malabsorption. Failed journalist becomes overnight medic I guess . So if she has malabsorption , it’s still not normal for a child with malabsorption to look like that- malabsorption is treatable. With proper medical care the child should not look like that. I bet there isn’t a single child with malabsorption that looks like that in Israel.

Some people feel they have been lied to and manipulated by these images.

Not all of us feel the same. I can’t feel manipulated by an image of a child loosing weight in a scenario where most people can agree rationally not enough food is getting through. Were aid agencies and medical staff are talking about malnutrition. I only feel sorrow that this is happening and I was completely avoidable.

I guess people see images and look for confirmation for their underlying beliefs. Maybe despite the evidence people don’t want to believe in food shortages having a significant impact.

Food can be medicine. It wasn’t that long ago that people with Coeliacs got prescriptions for wheat free food in the UK.

So the situation being as it is in Gaza at the moment, is it better overall to have airdrops of aid or not? Maybe you should tell all the countries providing the aid not to bother due to health & safety concerns. Write to Egypt, Qatar, US, Germany, France etc & tell them they’re doing more harm than good.

We get it - you are still upset that Israel stopped the old system. But the constant negativity is exhausting.

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It’s been explained multiple times we don’t like being lied to and manipulated by these images purporting to be something they’re not - images of typical Gazan children.

I don’t know if some people lack the ability to understand the nuance or are just pretending not to understand. Probably the latter because it’s not that hard to understand.

@PinkBobby the way you talk it’s like you don’t see a future for Gazans whether Hamas stay or go. Maybe you would prefer to see the war continue indefinitely? Because you’re all negativity so it’s hard to guess what you would consider a step in the right direction?

Weighing up!! The irony !!

Sick !!

I can't believe their are other human beings on here weighing up how starving and or ill innocent children should be before they are helped !!

What a fucking world we live in !!

No I don’t think the UN should coordinate with the GHF. The GHF was set up to fulfil a military goal of Israel and I don’t think the UN should be coordinating with that. Or any genuine aid agencies.

A 14 year old boy was killed in an air drop last Saturday when the pallet dropped on him. The video shows them coming down very fast.

For those of you with no first hand experience of malnutrition here’s a graphic showing starvation deaths, starvation, severe malnutrition, moderate malnutrition. Those most vulnerable usually are at the top of the pyramid. And of course if you start out with a weight of 110kg and loose 20 kg, you’ll still usually be overweight in some degree depending on height and build. Even in the worst famines there are normally survivors .

@PaxAeterna Re aid drops, I also read that some of them are being dropped into areas that are flagged as conflict zones so civilians aren’t actual able to access them. I’ll try and find the article it was in.

@CyberStranger If you want to wait until everyone in the photos looks like that poor girl to believe the seriousness of the situation, then that’s ultimately up to you. I believe you are ignoring a lot of evidence that tells you everything you need to know.

@Twiglets1 Hamas surrendering tomorrow doesn’t really end this conflict in the sense that the Palestinians pain and suffering with continue for a long time. You have millions of people displaced, medical facilities flattened, homes flattened, severed water pipes and electricity lines, malnourished people, traumatised people, a leadership/ideological vacuum, various armed groups… Israel can go back to normal (apart from the poor hostages’ families or the relatives of dead IDF soldiers) but a huge number of people in Gaza, if they ever get to return to their ‘homes’ have nothing and have lost almost everything. They will be living in tents, relying on a trickle of aid and minimal medical facilities for the foreseeable future, probably with little hope that the newly rebuilt Gaza will actually be for them.

I understand that Hamas must go but the idea that they can stop the pain and suffering anytime soon is, in my opinion, naive. If Hamas surrender, it seems incredibly unlikely at this point that Israel are going rebuild what they destroyed for Palestinian people to live in peace. I guess only time will tell.