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 threaten to leave every thread but never do? You've tagged me, so I will respond. That's a lie what you've just posted and the rest of your post is also inaccurate. Maybe if some posters didn't distort the truth and hone in for personal attacks, these threads wouldn't get deleted. The very fact I have left a couple of threads is exactly because of posts, like yours. If you want an argument, you're not getting it.

Explained to me? Wow! When? Which thread because I post randomly on various topics now and again when I have time to go on mumsnet? What is the verified expertise of those who apparently 'explained' to me that I should take that explanation on board if I went back to read it? Nice to be remembered though - the only posters I ever really noticed were Xenia and a couple of long-gone deregged or banned ones like ScottishMummy.

As someone who grew up in an area where lack of food is a real issue I’m well aware that those mothers will be malnourished. You seem to be unware that being malnourished isn’t related to weight, being malnourished and having too few calories are completely different things.

If you actually mean underweight, rather than malnourished, adults are not growing, adults have reserves in the form of fat, muscles and larger vital organs. If you stop feeding a five year old and a 25 year old at the same time, the five year old will be visibly underweight extremely quickly, while the 25 year old will appear an okay weight for several weeks.

This is well worth reading "The Political Motives Behind the Gaza Aid Catastrophe" ... https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-political-motives-behind-the-gaza-aid-catastrophe

It's important to remember that Israel is a democracy. The majority of Israelis support the government that have delivered these results in Gaza ... as they have with the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank over decades.

It's easy to criticize Israel. But remember we (UK) also also complicit in this, through direct and indirect support.

I also feel these threads are pointless. People should and hopefully do act in a way that supports their beliefs, when it comes to voting, when it comes to businesses related to these conflicts and so on. I certainly do.

I was being polite when I said the mothers weren't malnourished by the way. Nor are the fathers. I'm.not into fatshaming so I won't say any more.

Unbelievable. You do realise mothers don't have to actually appear emaciated to be unable to produce milk?

You try exclusively breastfeeding an infant in that type of heat, with minimal water and food. Disgusting comment.

Please lobby your MP and sign the various petitions at Oxfam, Save the Children etc. I started a thread recently on this subject with survey links.

OP I feel this. It is utterly, utterly heartbreaking.

some people in this world really are cunts

The pictures are utterly heartbreaking

What dont understand is:

• where are the malnourished adult men?

Hamas bear responsibility for some to most of this.they are seizing aid and failing g to distrubute so once again women and children are fucked under the bus for men.

• the number of people that blithely dismiss this as AI.

I have no doubt there are women and children suffering terribly, probably some men too. And I am not pro Palestine. No one is the hero in this war and hamas are terrorists but to simply dismissed this as made up fiction is wrong.
This is real and its attrocious. Innocent people are bearing a terrible price for Hamas' actions.

Israel lets the food parcels in, but they just sit at the border, as Hamas doesn’t let its own people get to it, in order to make Israel look like evil personified. Then people like you fall for this trick and turn into Israel-haters. It’s also psychological warfare.

Heart-breaking images, I keep thinking it can't get worse but it does. Does the entire population of Gaza need to be eliminated for it to stop?

These threads all descend into a pile-on of who can be most upset about the dreadful suffering in Gaza and who can come up with the wildest scenarios to be the biggest condemner of Israel. The West Bank has already been brought up - Israeli territory that was ceded by Jordan so where Palestine comes into it who knows? Other opinions aren't welcome and posters get bored with them and go and live their lives* but it doesn't mean the views expressed are dominant.

*yeah I know, Gazans can't live their lives how DARE I?!

I feel absolutely helpless, and absolutely sick of people continuing to blame Hamas.

It's not a famine. It's a genocide. Keep saying it.

Well that's the aim isn't it? That's been the aim since the start.

It's always women and children who suffer as the men look out for themselves. Hamas are evil incarnate in my opinion.

Golda Meir said it many decades ago...

'Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us'

Like I said, I don't do fatshaming. But minimal food isn't an option. Is this a widespread thing? Because many other countries are currently affected by worse heat and less food and water with parents who are visibly affected so as pp brought up it's gone on for a while but no one seems to care, there aren't endless virtue-signalling threads anyway so maybe the concern is private and no one cares about bringing visibility, I dunno. Or is it just a Gaza thing?

Thank you for sharing that quote, I just looked up and watched the interview.

I do think its worth watching for those who haven't.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cy8k8045nx9o

When the GHF - the only distributor of aid authorized by Israel - have staff claiming to have witnessed multiple war crimes, and when the organization's head resigns in protest at Israel's severe humanitarian failures, it is undeniable that Israel are the primary obstacle to the severe aid distribution we are now seeing.

I've been extremely reluctant to apply a certain legal term to Israel's present course of action, but it could soon be undeniable.

I am not a liar. In fact, I never lie. I would like that disgusting accusation to be withdrawn.

There isn't a genocide in Gaza either, although there are other genocides going on right now. I expect that slur to be withdrawn as well.

I’m not saying the images aren’t shocking but you know there are many millions of people suffering from conflict, displacement and malnutrition within the region. In Sudan the UN has said that 40% of children are suffering from acute malnutrition ( double that of Gaza) why isn’t the world watching them? Globally 7000 children die every day from malnutrition a figure only going to increase as the “public support for foreign aid has reduced” and aid budgets are being slashed.

It is awful but I think the suffering of the gazans is being weaponised in a ( successful ) propaganda campaign. Hamas doesn’t care about them they are pawns to be used.

Oh the irony ...

I’ve definitely seen malnourished men as well in some of the recent photos. Saw an awful photo of an extremely malnourished boy in his late teens. I’d say the men look malnourished at the same rate as the women on average to be honest, though the children as a group especially little kids look most malnourished - which is expected as it’s the way a famine works.

The photos coming out of Gaza right now are absolutely heartbreaking and remind me of the photos in the news at the time of the Ethiopian famine when I was a child. But this is a much more manufactured situation rather than due to a natural disaster, which makes it all the worse.

No one answers this question despite it being asked several times.

WHY ARE ISRAEL REFUSING ANY MEDIA ACCESS TO GAZA? For those of you spouting about AI, Hamas, fake starvation. The media could prove all you say is true, so why not let them in?

What irony? I'm not going to put up with being personally slandered because I don't conform with some posters' mandated groupthink that always ruins these types of threads.