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In reply to the discussion: Israel-Gaza war: Half of Gaza's population is starving, warns UN [View all]2naSalit
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Israel-Gaza war: Half of Gaza's population is starving, warns UN [View all]
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2023
OP
another IDF liar justifying his killing - "...but we don't have an alternative" nt
msongs
Dec 2023
#1
Netanyahu is a nightmare. However, it was Hamas that perpetrated the evil on October 7.
lapucelle
Dec 2023
#38
Sorry, but that's on Hamas. If Hamas were not in power, Egypt would not be engaged in a blockade.
lapucelle
Dec 2023
#42
"In making the comparison to poor Africans, it seems that you think $13 is too much for them"
EX500rider
Dec 2023
#58
Is your argument that there were no grocery stores and they were "half starved" for 16 years?
EX500rider
Dec 2023
#65
Because every morning Hamas leadership wakes up and decides to not release the hostages.
CincyDem
Dec 2023
#7
Being reported today that Israel has given "billions of dollars" to Gaza over the past decade.
CincyDem
Dec 2023
#55
what do you accept as proof the hamas has ended it....mass suicide???? extermination??????
dembotoz
Dec 2023
#45
If only Hamas had not started a war on October 7! If only Hamas had not broken the cease fire on November 30!
lapucelle
Dec 2023
#5
Sorry. I blame Hamas for breaking a ceasefire on October 7, slaughtering 1200+ in a slo-mo, hands on
lapucelle
Dec 2023
#14
Sorry, but the cease fires have been one sided. Israel upholds them until Hamas breaks them.
lapucelle
Dec 2023
#21
Folks are free to act as spokesmen for entire groups of people if they so choose; however,
lapucelle
Dec 2023
#41
I heard on NPR news this evening an interview with a Palestinian who said they are living on one cup
Lonestarblue
Dec 2023
#12
Unless something changes real soon, a million fellow humans are about to starve en masse
0rganism
Dec 2023
#18
What I do not understand, as we helplessly watch this tragedy unfolding
Big Blue Marble
Dec 2023
#26
you raise a fair point - dehydration and disease claim their shares before starvation comes for the survivors
0rganism
Dec 2023
#60