Joint press release: 15 aid organisations demand international pressure for an immediate ceasefire, arms embargo, and end to Israel’s systematic aid obstruction

  • 83% of required food aid does not make it into Gaza, up from 34% in 2023.This reduction means people in Gaza have gone from having an average of two meals a day to just one meal every other day. An estimated 50,000 children aged between 6-59 months urgently require treatment for malnutrition by the end of the year. (…)
  • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
    628·
    2 months ago

    So Hamas still haven’t released the hostages. Got it. Tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode of As The Stomach Churns.

    • Count042@lemmy.mlEnglish
      153·
      2 months ago

      Has Israel released the larger number of West Bank Palestinians taken hostage without judicial oversight?

      If taking hostages justifies genocide, what does the larger number of hostages that Israel takes justify?

    • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      2 months ago

      Interesting how Hamas not releasing the hostages means that a whole fucking shitload of people who are not in Hamas are purposefully starved. It’s like they’re being… collectively punished.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      113·
      2 months ago

      Super hard to release hostages that indiscriminate Israeli bombing have likely already killed…

      • Doorbook@lemmy.worldEnglish
        72·
        2 months ago

        after being born in a tent and prevented to be back to your home, growing up with no freedom of movement, limited access to food and electricity for at least 10 years, the president of the militia state decided to go to the UN, show a map that doesnt include you, put a red line across where you live like no one is living there.

        You decide enough is enough and figure time to attack back and leverage what you can.

        To your surprise the militia actually kills their claimed citizen and drop bombed exceeding the destruction exceeding any known conflict in human history on mostly civilian, while committing war crimes, sniper killing babies, press, food aid, and UN officials.

        Yet there are people blaming you for keeping the only leverage you have.

        • FatCrab@lemmy.oneEnglish
          37·
          2 months ago

          Yes, Hamas should be blamed for seizing and refusing to release hostages effectively gained via an ill conceived pogrom that no one could possibly have expected to have had any different of an outcome than it has had. The most accurate and reasonable observation that I saw after the October raid was simply, “Hamas just shot every Palestinian in the dick.”

          With that said, none of this excuses Israel and the IDF’s response, regardless of his predictable it has been. Nor does it excuse an increasingly ethnofascist apartheid state.