At least 57 Palestinians have starved to death in Gaza as Israel’s punishing blockade of food, water, and other critical aid to the besieged enclave stretches into its third month amid relentless bombardment.

Gaza’s Government Media Office said on Saturday that most of the victims were children, as well as the sick and elderly, condemning the “continued use of food by the Israeli occupation as a weapon of war” and urging the international community to exert pressure on Israel to reopen the borders and allow in aid.

  • @computerscientistII@lemm.ee
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    -3115 hours ago

    I can’t believe how radical those Hamas terrorists are. They rather watch their own people starve to death than releasing the rest of the hostages. Whatever your thoughts and believes about this whole confict are: It is absolutely clear that Israel will not stop at anything to kill the terrorists before all the hostages are released.

    • @kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      149 minutes ago

      Objectively false, they could have gotten all the hostages back but they wanted to continue their genocidal war on the Palestinian people. They had a deal and they chose to throw it away on a bunch of technicalities and unproven accusations (which they hope people will forget about because they will never be proven). If you pay attention to what Israeli government officials say then you would know this has absolutely nothing to do with the hostages. I have personally spoken to many Israelis and they all agree that they would rather destroy Hamas and kill all civillians in their way rather than get back the hostages.

    • @Psythik@lemm.ee
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      32 minutes ago

      Both sides are fucking retarded. Literally killing and starving each other over god damn religion. Fucking pisses me off that they’re willing to murder each other over a god that doesn’t even exist.

      God damn idiots, the lot of them. The country needs to go on a collective acid trip and calm the fuck down.

      The people who downvoted me are part of the problem. So here’s my message to you: Fuck you and your religion.

    • @MellowYellow13@lemmy.world
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      28 hours ago

      Do you know how many hostages Israel has and how many people and children they have murdered?

      How come it doesn’t matter how many hostages Israel has?

    • @WanderingVentra@lemm.ee
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      1513 hours ago

      Sure dude. What’s happening in the West Bank completely disproves that this has anything to do with Hamas or hostages.

    • But why would they do so? Those hostages are the only bargaining chip they have left.

      Hamas has offered to stick with the previous peace deal that would see the release of the remaining hostages, but Israel has decided that peace is not an option here.