Malnourished starving children in Gaza

[babyproblems]

The photos that appeared this morning on my news updates of mothers holding their children, dying of starvation and extreme malnutrition in Gaza have absolutely broken my heart. I am not particularly news focused, of course I’ve followed it all but this morning it has stopped me in my tracks and took my breath away. As a mother of a 3yo DS who is sleeping peacefully in his bedroom, whilst we have a fridge full of food downstairs and a life of peace, I feel so sorry that those poor mothers and children are living this hell so undeserved and also so so lucky we have the peace we do…
I don’t really know what the point of my post is; I suppose I’m screaming When Will This End inside and want to tell everyone to not take the freedom and peace we have for granted; use your right to vote and use your privilege to make informed choices that steer the world away from conflict towards peace…

Sending a handhold to all the mothers’ whose lives are not being lived in peace and whose children are suffering 🕊️💔

I hate to break it to you but in terms of the people you’re actually exposed to, you probably know or hear from a very small number of Muslim people in the world. So your sweeping statements are unfair at best. Social media algorithms mean you’re more likely be exposed to similar thinking individuals so you’re not getting an accurate picture of people’s views across the spectrum. You’re creating a very specific image of the world by relying on the views that you’re being fed. I apologise though if your job or life style means that you know a significant number of the Muslim population well enough to understand their political views and to be able to conclude that they all think as you say they do.

Good. About time.

Your being offended by what I wrote won’t change facts. You can be offended for days and weeks, it is meaningless.
And btw you are being very very naive. A typical westerner with a soft bleeding heart.
If a poisonous snake bites you, you probably want to take it home and take care of it. Though I understand there are people like that…humanity is very diverse.

I am blaming Israel because their Gov is killing thousands of Palestinian civilians. I hold Israel accountable for their actions - but I know many like you would like to blame others, literally anyone else for dropping the bombs and shooting innocent civilians - even Egypt now...I was going to say it's laughable but it really isn't - it's completely tragic.
I don't think there is any point in dialogue with people like you. I just hope the other world leaders will soon step up - shame on them for continuing to support Israel.

Starving babies aren't 'poison snakes' and there's no justification for using children searching for aid as target practice. The only people left trying to justify this depravity are swivel eyed loons.

They can still let in humanitarian aid. Easily. And they choose not to help. Yet you don’t condemn this. Ok.

Can you imagine repercussions for Egypt, from Israel if they did this? They've already also bombed Syria, Lebanon, Iran. Whilst Egypt have formally had control over the rafah border, in reality they open or shut it at the request of the Israeli government.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/aid-trucks-move-egypt-gaza-after-israel-said-it-began-airdrops-2025-07-26/

That is my hope too. For the governments who are in the pocket of the Israeli lobbyists it will take longer but I think (or just hope) the tides are turning. I have been really angry reading the posters who justify, deny or simply ignore the obvious wrongdoings of the Israeli government but now I’m just numb to their comments.

I’m not offended. Just engaging in debate and explaining that you are presenting opinion as fact. You cannot speak to the views of millions as if they are one homogeneous group and claim you know how they all think. It is nonsensical.

I can see you think you have me all figured out despite knowing very little about me, including my heritage or culture. You are only proving my point that you are speaking about people about whom you know nothing and it weakens your argument.

Don’t believe everything you see !

hamas Started this
habas are not laying down arms or releasing hostages. And are stealing aid. The un are preventing aid deliveries and some tip in officials on the ground are now being removed due to working for hamas

these are terrorists who murder their own people, use their children as shields, have stolen billions in foreign aid and teach their children all about marrying themselves and hate.

stand with Isreal

It’s broken my heart for the past 600 days. Nothing to offer except to say I feel the same 😞. One day history will look back on this in utter shame. The only thing I’ve found helpful is finding others in my community who feel similarly and taking what small actions we can. I just can’t believe this is happening again, in the 21st century and basically enabled and sponsored by the West. It’s sick.

I feel exactly the same .

Using children as shields is abhorrent. So is choosing to shoot/bomb those shields.

You’re comparing apples and oranges. Israel didn’t attack these countries because they gave humanitarian aid to Gaza.

And Egypt has a massive border because THEY want it, not because Israel demands it.

The conflict between Israel and Palestine started a long time before Hamas existed.

Thank you for sharing - this was very interesting to read.

Take your information from reliable sources - the UN, WHO, WFP, MSF, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty international. They will all tell you that Israel is carrying out a genocide - 3 of the 4 concluded that in Dec 2024. Look it up.
Oxfam and 99 other NGOs have signed a letter accusing Israel of manufacturing starvation in Gaza as a tool of war.

The conflicting information comes from Israel. Even Human Rights NGOs inside Israel are saying very similar things.

Saying 'oh I don't know who to believe' - well it's very similar to the MMR vaccine sceptics. Do you believe dedicated teams of experts who have written exhaustive studies on the topic and who have been on the ground during the genocide (eg MSF) or do you believe a man wanted for fraud who has stalled his court date by committing genocide? (Netanyahu).
The UK govt is involved in this and involving our armed forces in this, we have been listed among the complicit countries by the UN. So we have a duty to know. And a duty to tell our elected government they don't get to help starve children to death on our name.

The children in Gaza are struggling due to a conflict in numbers 50-100 times as high as the number killed by Hamas in Israel almost 2 years ago.

There were no protests early on either but as the conflict continues, as hundreds of thousands due, as Israel refuses to let up and gazans are dehumanized by the Israeli stance as Israel admits trying to wipe them out and deliberate starvation. Now there are protests, now the world is looking on and saying this may not directly involve me and it may be far away but this absolute horror and historical abomination needs to stop.

That's why there are protests.

But you know that, don't you? You understand the false equivalency.

If I was in Gaza and Israel after all they have done said 'no I just give up all weapons and we'll treat all the people here as human again...' I'm not convinced I'd rush to believe them.

Wow, I clicked on this thread fully expecting it to be an orgy of hatred. I genuinely didn't expect a sensible response on the first page. Thank you!!!

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty... 😂😂

....aaaand the UN and Oxfam and Save the Children and Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF) one of the most highly respected medical NGOs in the world with huge experience of war (and of genocide).
Oh and, Prof Omer Bartov and Prof Amos Goldstein, Israeli professors of Holocaust and genocide studies. And Dame Helena Kennedy.

The former head of Human Rights Watch at the time of its excellent report into Israeli apartheid (before Oct. 7th and before the genocide report) is Kenneth Roth a Harvard educated Jewish-American human rights lawyer whose father fled the Nazis.

Please do share with us your superior qualifications that allow you to sneer at Human Rights Watch and Amnesty?

The post you replied to is completely at odd with what the experts on the ground have said. The UN, Oxfam, Save the Children, MSF and 97 other international NGOs have written a letter stating that Israel is manufacturing mas starvation, Israel is preventing them moving food into or around the territories. See link below.

www.savethechildren.net/news/mass-starvation-spreads-across-gaza-more-100-ngos-make-urgent-plea-allow-life-saving-aid

Meanwhile international doctors including Oxford surgeon Professor Nick Maynard, Plastic surgeon Ms. Victoria Rose, Orthopedic surgeon Graeme Groome, have witnessed mass influx of victims shot or bombed at the Israeli operated "aid distribution sites" where food boxes are placed on the ground and the crowd of starving people get 10 min to try to grab something.
Prof. Maynard described how the Israeli soldiers targeted different body parts on different days - one day it was a stream of young boys shot in the testicles. Let that really sink in.

His account is corroborated by whistleblower former US Green Beret commander Anthony Aguilar who was there as a US mercenary and left after seeing soldiers shooting civilians who tried to get food.