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.

I’ll ask again. You’ve discredited just about everyone: UN agencies, humanitarian workers, journalists, and even children’s medical photos, but then land on “I trust the IDF every time.”

I’m genuinely curious: if that’s the standard, what sources do you consider reliable?

Not UN but a peacekeeping force made up of exclusively Arab nations sending equal numbers of troops each. If hostage's are released and Hamas stood down a democratically newly elected government could be formed and a 2 state solution more realistic. As long as Hamas remain there will be war. Hamas steal the aid food meant for citizens for themselves. Letting babies starve.

Hamas are posing as aid workers to steal food.

Just to add to the point you made about the holocaust - the one major standout for me is that in this genocide, we are all witnessing it unfold in real time, on our screens. We have doctors and aid workers who have gone in there and come back out, after somehow managing to survive, tell us of all the atrocities they have witnessed. We have every major agnecy, from the U.N to the ICJ telling us this is a genocide.

I wasn't born when the holocaust occured. But I know that information was distributed differently back then, and there would have been people who genuinely didn't know what was unfolding.

Now, you can see it all, and it's horrific.

Can you provide a source for that claim?

Because even if some aid is diverted (and that happens in every war zone) it doesn’t explain why Israel is blocking or bombing trucks at the crossing, or why famine has spread to areas with no Hamas presence at all.

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

It's the only alleged 'genocide' where the attacking force warn the civilians ahead of any attacks. It is however a war zone where terrorists use civilians as human shields.

The malnutrition is of course a problem and hamas should assist their own people. They don't care though as they're terrorists.

Maybe someone said? A bit like someone told Dr Maynard the IDF were targeting testicles?

You’re yet to provide us with any evidence of sources you do consider reliable @Gloriia - except the one party in the conflict.

You’ve discredited just about everyone: UN agencies, humanitarian workers, journalists, and even children’s medical photos, but then land on “I trust the IDF every time.”

In your eyes, every independent organisation is compromised, but a military force currently under ICJ investigation is your gold standard for truth?

What sources do you consider reliable?

That’s an extraordinary take. So we’re redefining genocide based on whether the perpetrators gave a warning first? The Genocide Convention doesn’t have a clause for “as long as they texted first.”

As for blaming Hamas for malnutrition- there are children starving in areas where Hamas isn’t even operational. Aid trucks have been bombed, blocked, and turned away. This is what happens when a siege strangles a population for months. It’s deliberate.

There are multiple public and leaked statements from Israeli officials that support the claim that aid obstruction has been part of an intentional strategy, not just the result of looting or Hamas interference.

Official Policy Declaration:
October 2023, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant announced a complete siege on Gaza:

“We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed.”

This was a publicly declared policy of total deprivation.

Leaked Government Policy Document:
A policy paper from Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence (reported by Haaretz) explicitly recommended reducing humanitarian aid to the bare minimum needed to avoid international intervention- not to meet civilian needs. It proposed blocking water, fuel, and food, and encouraged population displacement into Egypt.

Leaked Broadcast:
“Starvation is a legitimate weapon”
In a leaked clip aired by Israel’s KAN public broadcaster, senior Israeli officials said:

“We will not allow aid into areas where hostages are not returned. Starvation is a legitimate form of pressure.”

This was part of an internal discussion on using food as leverage.

Sources:

• https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-09/ty-article/.premium/israel-declares-complete-siege-on-gaza-no-electricity-food-or-fuel/0000018b-22a0-d27b-a99b-f2fce5580000
• https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-22/ty-article/.premium/israeli-intel-ministry-document-gaza-population-transfer/0000018b-9eaf-d00d-a7cb-ffefccda0000
• https://www.972mag.com/starvation-weapon-israel-gaza/
• https://theintercept.com/2024/01/10/israel-gaza-starvation-aid/

And on mumsnet in general.

Yet the French government have said the Gaza humanitarian foundation tasked with distributing aid have created a bloodbath and the IDF have shot another 100 people in the last 24 hours. Am assuming the French government are lying too and the only sources we should believe are Israel?

Gloriia - no. Just no.

Also, the IDF certainly aren’t “warning” the kids scrabbling in the dirt at the food distribution points that they are about to attack them.

Are we doing a Dawn French?

@Gloriia Could you answer my earlier question please? I’m genuinely curious. You’re yet to provide us with any evidence of sources you do consider reliable.

What sources do you consider reliable?

'You’ve discredited just about everyone: UN agencies, humanitarian workers, journalists, and even children’s medical photos'

The NYT discredited themselves regarding the picture they published. They admitted they hadn't been given the full story by whomever had given them it.

Journalists like Bowen need discrediting, he knows filming over war zones will not be permitted for strategic reasons yet he moaned on as if the IDF were hiding something. What, a load of rubble? It's hardly a newsflash is it. I do wish the bbc would get him home and have someone sensible reporting.

It is being widely reported that aid has been sat there all along and the issue is with the UN and hamas. We've seen actual footage of it! Not some Dr saying 'someone told me..'

I've no idea why some of you just will not see that it suits hamas to make their own people suffer.

being widely reported that aid has been sat there all along and the issue is with the UN and hamas. We've seen actual footage of it! Not some Dr saying 'someone told me”

@Gloriia just out of interest, why do you think that international governments, even the US think that Israel needs to do more to facilitate UN aid deliveries? Why do you think that nobody believes the Israeli government.

The guardian- how Israel caused a famine in Gaza…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/31/the-mathematics-of-starvation-how-israel-caused-a-famine-in-gaza

Israel should allow more news reporters into Palestine so people can judge for themselves. The world needs to see what is happening. However, we can only surmise that countries would not be dropping aid from the air if there wasn’t a crisis in that country.

Sobering read. So calculated. The graph showing the daily deaths from malnutrition since July 20th is only going one way 💔

They'd get abducted, held hostage and expect the IDF to rescue them. Terrorists are running the place.

Of course there is a crisis, it is a warzone and said terrorists will be loving it.

Awful footage of a hostage Rom Braslavski released by the terrorists.

Let's see that front page of all the papers tomorrow.

I really hope he is ok/alive. So cruel to release this footage. I think we all know why it won't be news tomorrow😢