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babylonsister

(172,236 posts) Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:44 AM 8 hrs ago

"I'm witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza's children - why is the world letting it happen?"

I'd like an answer to this, too.

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen?
Nick Maynard
A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will

Nick Maynard is a volunteer surgeon at Nasser hospital
Tue 22 Jul 2025 04.00 EDT

I’m writing this from Nasser hospital in southern Gaza, where I’ve just finished operating on another severely malnourished young teenager. A seven-month-old baby lies in our paediatric intensive care unit, so tiny and malnourished that I initially mistook her for a newborn. The phrase “skin and bones” doesn’t do justice to the way her body has been ravaged. She is literally wasting away before our eyes and, despite our best efforts, we are powerless to save her. We are witnessing deliberate starvation in Gaza right now.

This is my third time in Gaza since December 2023 as a volunteer surgeon with Medical Aid for Palestinians. I experienced mass casualty events and raised the alarm about malnutrition back in January 2024. But nothing has prepared me for the sheer horror I’m witnessing now: the weaponisation of starvation against an entire population.

The malnutrition crisis has become catastrophic since my last visit. Every day I watch patients deteriorate and die, not from their injuries, but because they are too malnourished to survive surgery. The surgical repairs that we carry out fall to pieces, patients get terrible infections, then they die. It is happening repeatedly, and it is heartbreaking to watch. Four babies have died in the last few weeks in this hospital – not from bombs or bullets, but from starvation.

Families and staff do their best to try to bring in what they can, but there simply isn’t enough food available in Gaza. For infants, we have virtually no baby formula. Children are being given 10% dextrose (sugar water), which has no nutritional value, and often their mothers are too malnourished to breastfeed. When an international colleague tried to bring baby formula into Gaza, Israeli authorities confiscated it.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/22/gaza-israel-deliberate-starvation-ceasefire-aid

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"I'm witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza's children - why is the world letting it happen?" (Original Post) babylonsister 8 hrs ago OP

Even volunteers and journalists look malnourished malaise 8 hrs ago #1

AFP reports its journalists there are starving to death!!! At least one already died from STARVATION vanessa_ca 2 hrs ago #20

Even volunteers and journalists look malnourished malaise 8 hrs ago #2

My God. We are so flooded with tragedy we have let this drop. 1WorldHope 8 hrs ago #3

You should take care. Some here may label you an antisemite. Gimpyknee 5 hrs ago #5

That wasn't necessary. Mossfern 5 hrs ago #9

Yes, it was necessary BuddhaGirl 5 hrs ago #10

It's by design MaineBlueBear 5 hrs ago #4

Years from now people will be saying "We didn't know" and shed a few tears. Ping Tung 5 hrs ago #7

And if there isn't there is no accountability. pandr32 5 hrs ago #8

K&R spanone 5 hrs ago #6

everyone is starving Kali999 5 hrs ago #11

Looks like the pedofelon and ku$hner plaza resort evil plan is on its way. Justice matters. 5 hrs ago #12

Because Netanyahu is shooting relief workers dead. Kid Berwyn 5 hrs ago #13

Apparently, Netanyahu can do whatever he pleases Bettie 5 hrs ago #14

How is "the world" supposed to stop it? maxsolomon 5 hrs ago #15

Maybe stop empowering Netanyahu, stop babylonsister 3 hrs ago #17

Cutting off US arms won't stop them immediately; they have plenty to keep going for quite a while. maxsolomon 2 hrs ago #19

It did not happen overnight. Passages 4 hrs ago #16

And October 7th (which was horrific) did not Bettie 3 hrs ago #18

malaise

(286,815 posts)

1. Even volunteers and journalists look malnourished

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:49 AM

8 hrs ago

Watched BBC earlier. The West is slowly waking up. Too late as usual.
These days I can’t separate the zionists from the fascists.

vanessa_ca

(302 posts)

20. AFP reports its journalists there are starving to death!!! At least one already died from STARVATION

Reply to malaise (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 03:27 PM

2 hrs ago

Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us has any memory of seeing an associate starve to death.

Link to tweet

malaise

(286,815 posts)

2. Even volunteers and journalists look malnourished

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:49 AM

8 hrs ago

Watched BBC earlier. The West is slowly waking up. Too late as usual.
These days I can’t separate the zionists from the fascists.

1WorldHope

(1,452 posts)

3. My God. We are so flooded with tragedy we have let this drop.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 09:57 AM

8 hrs ago

Netanyahu is a war criminal.
The fascist occupying the white house has helped netanyahu carry this out.
The USA has been supplying the weapons to carry this out.
I feel completely helpless.
Humans are cruel.
We really haven't evolved much from our time in the trees; we may have gotten more cruel. 😢

Gimpyknee

(366 posts)

5. You should take care. Some here may label you an antisemite.

Reply to 1WorldHope (Reply #3)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:16 PM

5 hrs ago

Mossfern

(4,103 posts)

9. That wasn't necessary.

Reply to Gimpyknee (Reply #5)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:23 PM

5 hrs ago

Was it?

AI Overview
Numerous Jewish organizations and individuals are involved in efforts to bring food and other humanitarian aid to Gaza,

Some of these organizations include

The New Israel Fund (NIF), which has raised and distributed significant funds for humanitarian aid in Gaza, working with groups like World Central Kitchen.
SmartAid, an Israeli tech relief nonprofit, was one of the first Jewish organizations to engage in Gaza relief work.
An Israeli charity (unnamed in the search results) has also been delivering humanitarian supplies, including food, donated by Israeli families to the Gaza Strip. They have faced obstacles, including police blockades and attacks from extreme right-wing settlers.
Bend the Arc, a Jewish organization focused on social justice, has joined a call for food aid for all people in Gaza and an end to the Israeli government's food aid blockade.
World Jewish Relief, with the encouragement of Israeli authorities, is providing targeted support to a partner in Gaza to deliver maternal and infant healthcare.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, according to Charity Watch, is providing emergency aid and support in Israel.

It is important to note

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is complex, with various factors affecting aid distribution, including security concerns, infrastructure damage, and the involvement of different actors.
There are differing views and debates surrounding the most effective and ethical ways to deliver aid in Gaza, with some criticisms leveled against the politicization of aid efforts.

Jewish Donors Raise Unprecedented Funds for Humanitarian ...
May 8, 2024 — This is the first time that NIF has raised, and distributed, this level of funding for programs outside of Israel. * NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch: “The power of these...
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BuddhaGirl

(3,679 posts)

10. Yes, it was necessary

Reply to Mossfern (Reply #9)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:30 PM

5 hrs ago

Genocide is happening in Gaza. It's appalling how some will bend over backwards to diminish it.

MaineBlueBear

(191 posts)

4. It's by design

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:16 PM

5 hrs ago

It's intentional and deliberate. If there's a god, those responsible will be held accountable in this life and thereafter.

Ping Tung

(3,068 posts)

7. Years from now people will be saying "We didn't know" and shed a few tears.

Reply to MaineBlueBear (Reply #4)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:19 PM

5 hrs ago

pandr32

(13,228 posts)

8. And if there isn't there is no accountability.

Reply to MaineBlueBear (Reply #4)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:22 PM

5 hrs ago

spanone

(139,664 posts)

6. K&R

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:17 PM

5 hrs ago

Kali999

(222 posts)

11. everyone is starving

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:31 PM

5 hrs ago

you can see it in the coverage. I was looking yesterday. Its horrific.

Justice matters.

(8,654 posts)

12. Looks like the pedofelon and ku$hner plaza resort evil plan is on its way.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:34 PM

5 hrs ago

Who can stop them?

Kid Berwyn

(21,365 posts)

13. Because Netanyahu is shooting relief workers dead.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:44 PM

5 hrs ago

Ask Chef Andres.

Bettie

(18,589 posts)

14. Apparently, Netanyahu can do whatever he pleases

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:47 PM

5 hrs ago

and the world will just nod and give him more weapons.

And it isn't just Netanyahu

Meanwhile, the vast majority of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza, and roughly half want to kill every single man, woman, and child in the besieged strip.

This is according to a poll that was published by the major Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

It found that 82% of Israelis want to expel Gazans, and 47% support killing all Palestinians in Gaza.

The survey was conducted in March by Israeli scholar Tamir Sorek, a professor at Pennsylvania State University. He worked with the Israeli polling firm Geocartography Knowledge Group.

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/05/30/poll-israelis-expel-palestinians-gaza-genocide/

Referenced article with paywall: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.premium/yes-to-transfer-82-of-jewish-israelis-back-expelling-gazans/00000197-12a4-df22-a9d7-9ef6af930000

I can't find a non-paywall version and I don't have time right now to keep looking.

maxsolomon

(36,916 posts)

15. How is "the world" supposed to stop it?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 01:02 PM

5 hrs ago

Invade Israel? Land troops on the Gaza shoreline and fight the IDF?

There's only one group that can stop the siege of Gaza: Hamas.

Why is "the world" "allowing" Russia to terrorize Ukraine?

babylonsister

(172,236 posts)

17. Maybe stop empowering Netanyahu, stop

Reply to maxsolomon (Reply #15)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 02:23 PM

3 hrs ago

supplying arms to Israel, FEED THE GAZANS and stop using them as target practice?

maxsolomon

(36,916 posts)

19. Cutting off US arms won't stop them immediately; they have plenty to keep going for quite a while.

Reply to babylonsister (Reply #17)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 03:15 PM

2 hrs ago

They make their own, and regardless, you know that a US weapons embargo has zero chance of happening w/ MFer in the white house.

"The world" has no power to stop the siege and isn't "allowing" it.

How can God allow it? Why doesn't God stop it?