I grew up on food stamps. This new report is especially painful. Per the UN: A quarter of Gaza’s population is now starving. STARVING. That’s 550,000 people, including ~275,000 children.
“It doesn’t get any worse,’’ said Arif Husain, chief economist for the U.N.’s World Food Program. “I have never seen something at the scale that is happening in Gaza.”
Think about this reality as you celebrate Christmas this week. We must demand and do better.
I’m running for U.S. Congress to…
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…uphold human rights and dignity for all people. It is unacceptable to me that my opponent sits in a position of power, and still refuses to raise his voice to call for a ceasefire. What could be so important to him that he’s convinced watching a half million people starve is better than having the courage to call for ceasefire? This is not leadership.
I am deeply pained outraged. And my resolve has never been stronger to demand international human right law and justice for all people.
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Please educate yourself on the situation. Yes it is unacceptable that so many are starving. But the aid that is entering Gaza isn't able to reach a majority of the Gaza population because it is being seized by armed terrorists.
A ceasefire means nothing to a group that consistently breaks it
@QasimRashid you should be demanding for the return of the hostages and for the immediate surrender of all Hamas operatives, and not for a ceasefire that will only prolong the suffering of the Gazan people due to the corrupt and murderous government which started all of it.
@QasimRashid I appreciate your empathy. Hamas and its wealthy leaders in exile have spent millions or even hundreds of millions stockpiling supplies and building tunnels. People in Gaza should be asking them for food.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/world/middleeast/palestine-gazans-hamas-food.html
The World Food Program's biggest donor is the US, footing the bill for Hamas's neglect. 80% of Gazans before this war depended on international aid. WFP cut off 200k Palestinians in May due to funding shortages. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/world-food-programme-suspend-aid-palestinians-due-funding-shortage-2023-05-07/
@QasimRashid Generally, UN organizations like WFP have a sordid track record of singling out and demonizing Israel.
For example, just this year, the WFP has published 21 press releases about Palestine and only 8 about Democratic Republic of Congo, where nearly 7 million people are at risk of starvation due to conflict.
@QasimRashid Only 6 news releases this year about Malawi, where WFP had to halve food rations for refugees in July due to funding shortages and in March Cyclone Freddy put 3.8 million people at risk of acute food insecurity.
https://www.wfp.org/news?f%5B0%5D=country%3A2025&f%5B1%5D=year%3A2023
It was horrible before this. 50% unemployment, 50% of the population under age 15, all living in an enclosed space with no way out with the population density of New York City.
Of course they were going to retaliate for that type of injustice.
Listen dipshit it doesn’t justify it but I sure gave your dumbass a reason WHY it would happen.
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Israel has come full circle. They now embrace an all out "final solution" to a process it began in 1948. I doubt Hamas had any illusion of how this would go, just like the Jewish fighters of the Warsaw ghetto in 1944. Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of that uprising against the Nazis wrote about their resistance. It went something like, "we [ghetto residents] had no control over how we lived, but we could control how we died." And like the people in those Nazi created ghettos, with it's intentional starving, random murder, collective punishments, and debasements of the inmates to "animal" status, the fighters who rose up knew their fates. In this case, Hamas, as their last battle, forced Israel to drop all pretense. Further, all this discussion is irrelevant for a people whose only future is as walking dead -- from birth, till they are physically knocked down by whichever of the methods listed above, and whenever it is decided at whim of their captors.
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Way to piss off all their Arab neighbors who outnumber them significantly and have a personal stake in survival and retribution. We are in World War III at a time of great risk of viral infections taking a worldwide foothold and an increasingly unstable and unpredictable climate forcing drastic changes in food supply and the natural food chain.
They basically were, lots of UNICEF etc. support via truck. Conditions pre war were horrible. 50% unemployment, a huge outdoor prison for the majority of the population, and again 50% of those under age 15. All living in a place with no easy exit and a population density of New York City.
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