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Malnourished starving children in Gaza

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babyproblems · 26/07/2025 06:42

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 🕊️💔

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EmeraldShamrock000 · 26/07/2025 10:50

Yeah, the photos remind me of the holocaust photos. Beautiful sweet innocent children with arms like a toothpick, sunken cheeks.
Disgusting.
There is zero justification for starving innocent people.

banquepopulaire · 26/07/2025 10:54

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SumUp · 26/07/2025 10:55

Food should never be used as a weapon, anywhere.

RainSoakedNights · 26/07/2025 10:55

Alltheprettyseahorses · 26/07/2025 10:37

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?

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My god.

Malnutrition isn’t just being painfully skinny. That’s the last stage before death. Obviously, children will hit that stage first. There was footage last night of a little boy, he couldn’t have been more than two. He still had his chubby hands but was so malnourished he couldn’t even lift his head. Do you think that’s fine because he’s not skin and bone?

Comedycook · 26/07/2025 10:57

No one seems particularly bothered about the starving children in Yemen....

Strawbsplease · 26/07/2025 10:57

Alltheprettyseahorses · 26/07/2025 10:26

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.

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Jesus, what the fuck is wrong with you?

thepariscrimefiles · 26/07/2025 11:01

'A British doctor who has worked in Gaza has said that his colleagues have been prevented from taking baby formula into hospital.

Professor Nick Maynard, a volunteer surgeon at Nasser hospital, told Good Morning Britain on Friday (25) that he has seen "appalling malnutrition.”

"If you go through a checkpoint, you get searched as a doctor and if you've got any baby formula in your pockets or in your bag, [Israeli officials] will confiscate it from you," he said.'

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/gaza-israel-doctor-baby-formula-video-b2795831.html

British doctor in Gaza: Colleagues stopped from taking baby formula into hospital

A British doctor who has worked in Gaza has said that his colleagues have been prevented from taking baby formula into hospital. Professor Nick Maynard, a volunteer surgeon at Nasser hospital, told Good Morning Britain on Friday (25) that he has seen "...

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/gaza-israel-doctor-baby-formula-video-b2795831.html

EmeraldShamrock000 · 26/07/2025 11:01

Comedycook · 26/07/2025 10:57

No one seems particularly bothered about the starving children in Yemen....

They are bothered, deflection doesn't change the starving in gaza, accusing the children as hamas supporters, doesn't excuse the madness that Israel is doing, inflicting slow painful deaths.

Simonjt · 26/07/2025 11:01

banquepopulaire · 26/07/2025 10:26

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.

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Apparently we aren’t allowed to reply factually as the posters considers actual knowledge on malnutrition to be fat shaming.

Comedycook · 26/07/2025 11:02

Over a year ago we were told they were on the brink of a famine...always on the brink...

In October 2023 we were told they were hours away from running out of water...

Something doesn't add up

Comedycook · 26/07/2025 11:03

EmeraldShamrock000 · 26/07/2025 11:01

They are bothered, deflection doesn't change the starving in gaza, accusing the children as hamas supporters, doesn't excuse the madness that Israel is doing, inflicting slow painful deaths.

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I have never once seen anyone I know post on social media about the starving children in Yemen....now everytime I log on they're all up in arms about the children in Gaza

dairydebris · 26/07/2025 11:06

banquepopulaire · 26/07/2025 09:50

I watched an interview recently of an Israeli school teacher. Apparently, the majority of secondary-aged children in Israel are taken to visit concentration camps in Poland as part of the curriculum. I had not been aware of this.

This teacher was talking about how she had travelled with her class. One day, while the children were sitting inside the wire fencing of a particular concentration camp, some noticed that there were some villages nearby, visible through the fencing. The children asked how people in the 1940s could have possibly carried on with their lives outside the concentration camps, when they would have seen the smoke and must have known what was going on inside. The teacher thought this might be a good opportunity to ask the children to reflect on what is happening not in the 1940s, but right now in Gaza. It did not go down well. I think she said she was sacked after the trip.

Sacked, rightly so.

banquepopulaire · 26/07/2025 11:09

Comedycook · 26/07/2025 11:03

I have never once seen anyone I know post on social media about the starving children in Yemen....now everytime I log on they're all up in arms about the children in Gaza

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Start a thread about Yemen if you want to discuss Yemen.

This thread is about Gaza. Your attempts to deflect are shameful.

custardlover · 26/07/2025 11:10

Tiredofwhataboutery · 26/07/2025 10:40

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.

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You have quite the ironic username there.

banquepopulaire · 26/07/2025 11:12

Imagine posting that when your user name is Tiredofwhataboutery!

Dangermoo · 26/07/2025 11:13

RainSoakedNights · 26/07/2025 09:15

Every single post about Gaza you’re there, saying it’s all fake.

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No, I'm saying that not everybody has jumped on a moral crusade. Free speech doesn't mean being made to feel guilty.

needtostopnamechanging · 26/07/2025 11:13

Yes I have heard that dissenters in Isreal are losing their jobs - the parallels with 1930s Germany grow stronger all the time

Featherruffler · 26/07/2025 11:14

imagiantwitch · 26/07/2025 10:45

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?

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Let media into Gaza? Most of them would be either killed by Hamas in no time, or would be fed lies and propaganda by them. Any media group entering would be strictly chaperoned by armed Hamas soldiers and only allowed to visit certain places but not all. Do you really believe that journalist can be let into Gaza and just roam freely wherever they want and interview whoever they want? It’s not like going to London on a trip where you just do as you please as a tourist! Even if I was the most dedicated journalist, I would NOT dare enter Gaza (the lion’s den).
It’s not just Israel not letting media into Gaza, it’s also Hamas not wanting them there.
Btw various outsiders enter Gaza, such as food truck drivers, and they just dump their load there but never see the food distributed to the ordinary Gazans.

Morgenrot25 · 26/07/2025 11:14

savvy7 · 26/07/2025 10:27

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.

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My MSP has spoken about it, not so sure about the MP.

Dangermoo · 26/07/2025 11:17

banquepopulaire · 26/07/2025 11:09

Start a thread about Yemen if you want to discuss Yemen.

This thread is about Gaza. Your attempts to deflect are shameful.

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Yet the amount of threads I've seen, with empathy towards hostages, derailed by Israel's detractors. Hard to keep up with the double standards.

banquepopulaire · 26/07/2025 11:26

If Israel wanted to ensure aid is distributed fairly and not falling into the hands of Hamas, they could send in troops and create infrastructures to ensure this today.

If Hamas were seizing all the aid, Israel would permit at least some international journalists in to report on this.

Bob231 · 26/07/2025 11:28

custardlover · 26/07/2025 08:48

It is disgusting. I read a lot of ‘Hamas’ in a PP and sure that is a factor but the most significant one is surely the country blocking aid and then murdering children and families who then try to access the little that is allowed. It’s a shocking, despicable war crime.

This.

Netenyahu needs to be arrested and tried for war crimes NOW.

It sickens me that a genocide is allowed to unfold in front of the worlds eyes and nothing is done to stop it. Worse still, some countries are actually aiding it via the supply of weapons which are being used largely to kill innocent children and starving parents.

Bob231 · 26/07/2025 11:28

banquepopulaire · 26/07/2025 11:26

If Israel wanted to ensure aid is distributed fairly and not falling into the hands of Hamas, they could send in troops and create infrastructures to ensure this today.

If Hamas were seizing all the aid, Israel would permit at least some international journalists in to report on this.

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Absolutely this. Absolutely.

MissyB1 · 26/07/2025 11:30

banquepopulaire · 26/07/2025 09:38

While the world argues about the extent to which Israel is restricting aid at the border, or Hamas is hoarding aid that does get in, children are starving.

Why is the world allowing Israel to refuse entry to the world's media into Gaza? If Israel have nothing to hide, and Hamas are indeed hoarding aid, surely they would want this situation exposed and internationally verified?

Well precisely, whst are Israel scared of the world's press, and international organisations seeing? What have they got to hide? What are their motives for preventing aid from being allowed to be transported?

Featherruffler · 26/07/2025 11:32

banquepopulaire · 26/07/2025 10:09

@OrangeHearted

I am not surprised they sacked this daft woman. She can’t even comprehend why military training is mandatory in Israel. And she has the audacity to call it brainwashing! Israel is a small country with a small population. If they weren’t on the top of their game in terms or military intelligence and training, they would be immediately annihilated by their hostile neighbours who completely surround them. I suspect she probably is not even Israeli and just agreed to this defamatory interview. I think it’s a Turkish broadcaster, so I would question the credibility of it.