To think UN should now be in Gaza as a peacekeeping force

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Seriously, when even the Daily Express are even calling mass forced starvation and putting pictures like this on their front pages.

Surely the UN could act as a peacekeeping force and stop this insanity?

Its obscene.

We hear so much about what Israel are allegedly doing or not doing, this Dr Maynard bloke apparently deciding that the IDF are all trained snipers targeting exact body parts of teenage boys from a distance. Why would they?!

Let's hear everyone shout to hamas to get the aid distributed! They're sitting there eating it all while folk like Geldof tiresomely blame Israel.

Tell hamas to feed their people! A terrorist group letting one's own people suffer shouldn't surprise us but doing so whilst blaming Israel is just appalling.

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un-aid-theft.html

Just in.

Verified Facts:

• Since March 2025, Israel imposed a total blockade, stopping food, water, fuel, and medical supplies from entering Gaza .
• The World Health Organization and UN Secretary-General called Gaza’s hunger a man‑made famine caused by Israeli policies, not natural causes .
• Aid deliveries plunged by 83%, with 2024 data showing only 17% of needed food actually reached Gaza—despite huge quantities stalled at borders .
• Since May 2025, the Israeli‑backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has replaced the existing UN aid system but has failed to deliver adequate food, while many humanitarian agencies refuse to cooperate with it .
• Over 5,000 children were admitted for acute malnutrition just in July 2025, with many in hospitals designed to feed them being overwhelmed and under‑supplied .
• Reports confirm that over 1,000 Palestinians have died trying to access aid, many shot near distribution centres under Israeli military control .
• At the International Criminal Court, charges were issued against Israeli leaders (Netanyahu and Gallant) for using starvation as a method of warfare—a war crime under international law .
• Concerned human rights bodies—including Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights—have explicitly stated Israel’s blockade and food suppression may constitute collective punishment and war crimes.

Despite claims blaming Hamas, the real, verifiable facts show:

• Israel controls all access points to Gaza, and its current policies are the direct cause of the starvation crisis.
• Aid trucks are held at border crossings, explosions and surveillance hinder deliveries, and distribution systems have been altered or shut by Israeli decree.
• Thousands are dying, most children—starving in a territory where food simply cannot get in due to blockade.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/gaza-facing-man-made-mass-starvation-says-whos-tedros-2025-07-23

https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/israels-siege-now-blocks-83-of-food-aid-reaching-gaza-new-data-reveals/

https://www.who.int/news/item/12-05-2025-people-in-gaza-starving–sick-and-dying-as-aid-blockade-continues

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GazaStripfamine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsraeliblockadeoftheGazaStrip%282023–present%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarcrimesintheGazawar

https://www.apnews.com/article/8eb90d73c1b7499d3dbc8b8d95da65cc

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/26/israel-announces-daily-military-pauses-as-fury-mounts-over-starvation-in-gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/26/israel-food-starvation-gaza-famine-aid

https://www.ft.com/content/a9c1267a-2aaf-4e87-9ecf-3104be792394

https://time.com/7305308/gaza-starvation-journalists-aid-blockade/

https://www.rescue.org/crisis-in-gaza

https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-faces-man-made-mass-starvation-due-to-israeli-aid-blockade-world-health-organisation-says-13400462

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/gaza-facing-man-made-mass-starvation-says-whos-tedros-2025-07-23

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/statement-unicef-regional-director-middle-east-and-north-africa-edouard-beigbeder-3

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/2/palestinian-children-face-starvation-under-israels-total-gaza-blockade

https://www.ft.com/content/a9c1267a-2aaf-4e87-9ecf-3104be792394

https://time.com/7305151/gaza-starvation-children-hunger-malnutrition-israel

https://www.who.int/news/item/12-05-2025-people-in-gaza-starving–sick-and-dying-as-aid-blockade-continues

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/26/israel-food-starvation-gaza-famine-aid

https://www.btselem.org/publications/202404manufacturingfamine

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/07/gaza-evidence-points-to-israels-continued-use-of-starvation-to-inflict-genocide-against-palestinians

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsraeliblockadeoftheGazaStrip(2023%E2%80%93present)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsraeliwarcrimesintheGazawar

https://www.ipcinfo.org/ipcinfo-website/countries-in-focus-archive/issue-124/en/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/israel-gaza-war-aid-benjamin-netanyahu-hamas-middle-east-latest-news-updates

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/26/israels-military-says-airdrops-of-aid-will-begin-in-gaza-as-hunger-grows-00478156

https://www.vox.com/world-politics/421305/gaza-famine-israel-us-hamas-war

Let me be really clear on this @Gloriia because you don’t seem to be taking this in, despite so much information contrary to what you believe.

I blame Israel for starving Gazans to death. Not Hamas. Not UNHCR. I blame Israel, and specifically Netanyahu.

Well let me be equally as clear i blame hamas and while they are a terrorist organisation some people see to think they are victims and they are not at fault for not distributing aid to their malnourished people. They seem to be masters at gaslighting.

You seem unable to use the word starving @Gloriia and I find it really interesting. You use ‘malnourished’ but earlier used the phrase “the starvation myth.”

I don’t think you believe there are people starving to death in Gaza, do you?

I found Geldof's speech on Sky to be as tone deaf as French's 'NO!' On X. He even said 'STOP IT' as if he were talking to naughty school kids.

These arrogant celebs seriously think that being scolded by Bob and Dawn is going to make the blindest bit of difference.

Yes Bob Live Aid was great this one's bit more complex so shut up and sit down.

Shut up, sit down, get a haircut.

Are you going to address this comment @gloriia? Or are you just going to mock a celebrity for condemning the starvation of nearly 2 million people as morally unacceptable?

I guess you wouldn’t have time for someone who calls out the Israeli government and military for lying, describes the starvation crisis in Gaza as deliberate and man‑made, blames Israeli policies for mass malnutrition and death, calls on Israeli citizens to protest and demands real, political change and an immediate halt to the killing! It doesn’t fit your narrative.

Bob Geldof

This is not live aid; those days are gone.

There aren't queues of serious celebs climbing on this band wagon. No Talyor Swift with a Palestinian flag, Noel Gallagher isn't calling out the IDF, Sabrina Carpenter isn't getting drawn into politics. You have missed the zeitgeist where celebs with actual careers know when to stay out of an intractible conflict.

You could have your own concert with your only hit about a school serial killer but I don't know how well that goes down well.

Please stay in the 80s

God, YAWN. You just won’t listen to anyone will you. Despite the multiple evidence to the contrary.

It’s actually really disturbing and it’s easy to see how mass genocide has happened in the past with the knowledge of people who choose to look away or deny it.

I went on a LEGAL march in Brighton at the weekend - it was huge. But this is what the Israel lobby posted about it and it’s a massive lie. MASSIVE lie.

The hatred and the lies are coming from the Israel lobby and this woman posting is full of hate and lies towards the women and children of Gaza.

He is an absolute prat isn't he. As I say LiveAid was great but that does not make him some great guru regarding anything conflict wise. I of course accept these people have a right to air their views but 'STOP IT!' Really Bob? when did thst ever work in a conflict. Perhaps he could ring Putin up and suggest the same?!

It would be a refreshing change if these keffiyeh wearing free palestine people would try a #hamasSurrender slogan occasionally. Just for a bit of balance, to show they understand the situation and who is the villain here.

It would also be a refreshing change if Israel took some responsibility for its actions. And I don’t just mean the last 18 months- I mean the last 70 years.

Oof no wonder I’ve repeated myself so many times. I see we’re onto deflection again 🥱

I posted this on another thread too- but it’s obviously also relevant here:

This Amnesty International report outlines harrowing evidence of chronic starvation conditions- and even infant deaths from formula denial in Gaza, under a blockade from Israel. Since March–May 2025, WHO and OCHA report almost 60 children dead from malnutrition, while MSF, UNICEF, and Reuters warn that therapeutic food stocks will run out imminently:

• https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/07/gaza-evidence-points-to-israels-continued-use-of-starvation-to-inflict-genocide-against-palestinians/

Further reading:

• https://www.who.int/news/item/12-05-2025-people-in-gaza-starving–sick-and-dying-as-aid-blockade-continues
• https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/gaza-running-out-specialised-food-save-malnourished-children-2025-07-25/
• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/25/severe-malnutrition-under-5s-gaza-city–tripled-two-weeks-charity-msf
• https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/more-5000-children-diagnosed-malnutrition-gaza-strip-may
• https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-war-on-gazas-children
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Gaza_war_%2818_March_2025_%E2%80%93_15_May_2025%29

If you were on a march didn't anyone ponder on why doesn't the terrorist organisation who caused all this surrender? Anyone?
#HamasSurrender maybe jars a bit with wearing a stylish Keffiyeh.

We’ve discussed it at length on various threads @Gloriia

Do you want me to repeat a summary? Are we doing this again?

@Gloriia you post like someone in a battle- not with Hamas, but with the people on here who are upset, angry, or trying to make sense of rhis brutal reality.

You say things like “#HamasSurrender” as if that would solve everything, as if this is just a matter of one side waving a flag and everything being fine. But I don’t see you seriously engaging with what has happened after people have tried to surrender. Or what Israel has demanded in return. Or what life under blockade has meant for over 2 million people.

You’re passionate but it feels like your passion is directed more at discrediting fellow posters than at understanding what’s happening on the ground. It’s okay to feel strongly. It’s also okay to pause and ask yourself- why am I posting like the people on here are the threat?

Exactly. It’s a kind of arrogance to be honest. To dismiss what’s happening despite the incontrovertible evidence to the contrary

@Wedonttalkaboutboris
May I remind you of your previous post 'I'm no longer going to engage with you' and suggest you stick to your own advice and stop quoting me? I know it is challenging when someone else dares to offer facts and a balanced view.

'Exactly. It’s a kind of arrogance to be honest. To dismiss what’s happening despite the incontrovertible evidence to the contrary'

I'm not dismasing anything, life in a warzone will be horrific. Your march saying 'free palestine and Geldof's 'stop it!' Will not help anyone. A terrorist organisation needs to surrender so peace talks and progress can start.

Just to be very clear, you’ve offered me no facts or balance @Gloriia