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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 219 points 1 year ago

If concessions can not be made to save these lives even with the entire world watching, then I do not want to hear falsehoods about caring for human rights.

[-] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 92 points 1 year ago

I've been very cautious to reserve the word "Genocide" because I didn't want to devalue it with hyperbole. For years, I've said that Israel is ethnically cleansing historic Palestine. But reading this article... I think this is the point where it becomes genocide, full and proper.

It's shocking to bear witness to.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago

By the UN definition, it's been genocide for a long fucking time

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[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And Biden, Blinken, etc have lashed themselves to the mast next to Netanyahu and Likud, promising a blank check no matter what.

Usually I'm OK with Biden (I think the way he handled Ukraine was pretty damn good) but this is a disastrous decision on our part.

[-] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I can only hope that his tough talk in public is covering for behind the scenes pressure on Isreal to have a ceasefire.

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[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

It is genocide either way by definition. Whether it's cultural or straight murder.

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[-] PorradaVFR@lemmy.world 154 points 1 year ago

What an absolute nightmare. Those poor people are caught in the middle of a conflict they can do nothing about. It’s horrific.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 48 points 1 year ago

I find it both horrifying and nauseating at the same time. This makes me sad to be a human being.

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago
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[-] WuTang@lemmy.ninja 34 points 1 year ago

I really hope israel will loose their wildcard and be accountable for all this shit. Just remove their privileges!

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

They won't. The extermination of Palestinians has been a stated goal of Israel and its allies for decades.

They're not going to be punished for pulling the trigger.

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 15 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Hospitals in Gaza are ceasing to function because they are running out of water and fuel for generators, while being overwhelmed by huge numbers of casualties and civilians seeking shelter from Israeli bombing.

No new fuel has been allowed into Gaza since the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, starving hospital generators as well as the desalination and pumping plant essential to the water system.

Video posted on Tuesday showed the Indonesian hospital in north Gaza in total blackout after the generators failed, with the sole illumination from mobile phones.

Tanya Haj-Hassan, a Canadian-based paediatric intensive care and humanitarian doctor who helps run a western support network for Gaza health workers, said a third of hospitals in the territory had ceased to function.

Another member of the western support group, Omar Abdel-Mannan, a senior paediatric neurology resident at Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London, said: “Doctors on the ground are using minimal anaesthesia so they can economise on it.”

Medical experts from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited hospitals in Gaza on Tuesday and confirmed the dire reports from doctors on the ground.


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