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The UN declares for the first time that a “man-made” famine is occurring in Gaza City.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has given its first-ever declaration of famine in a Middle Eastern country, stressing that it can be reversed as it is totally man-made.

#Famine #Gaza #Genocide #IPC #UN #Starvation #FoodAsWeapon

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The reddit threads on this story are packed with genocide apologists blaming Hamas for the famine; I wasted three minutes calling them out and got a ban for my troubles. :(

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

Ghislaine Maxwell was a top Reddit mod.

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, it really is such "a complex issue". It's geneocide if it happened elsewhere, but yeah, so complex (/s obviously).

It should have been stopped long ago, and more so, it shouldn't have happened.

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

Well you see, there's no comparing what Israel is doing to the holocaust, because one was done to Jews and one was done to Arabs, and Jews are one of the master races. I mean if this were being done to Aryans the protesters would have a point, but there's just no comparing the two in this case

/s zionists actually believe this bullshit

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How did it take the fucking UN this long?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 weeks ago

The UN is controlled by Israel.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

A circlejerk of yes men is no way to run an empire.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Almost all famines are man-made. We have am enormous surplus of food

[–] faab64@freefree.ps -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@quick_snail
All lives matter logic does not work when an army blocking the food that is a stone cast away from the starving people and shooting at them when they are humiliated to beg for it.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, it's definitely a genocide and starvation is explicitly being used as a weapon by Israel.

I'm just saying that almost all famines have some State with blood on their hands.

[–] faab64@freefree.ps -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@quick_snail
Posting moments like that is just a sad way of taking Away the horrors of ongoing genocide.

It's at minimum stupid and insensitive, at worst, whataboutism and making distraction from the crimes of Israel

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 3 weeks ago

How? I just called them out in genocide.

[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Occurring" fuck that wording.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

what a man made natural disaster

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

Genocide. It's genocide.