UN warns 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours without aid – Israel-Gaza war live | Gaza

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  1. You don’t understand, Israel had to starve thousands of children in Gaza, Hamas might be contained within the baby formula.

    Someday those of you that supported this will have to explain yourselves. This is a genocide, and the Israeli ministers are bragging about it.

  2. 5 trucks of aid for two million people? That’s less than what arrives at your local supermarket daily. What are the people of Gaza supposed to do with that, organise a lottery to determine whose baby gets to live? What a bunch of sadistic sick fucks is the state of Israel.

  3. There’s no could about this. They will. As certain as the sun will set in a few hours and rise again tomorrow.
    Our leaders have sealed their fate.

  4. Maybe I’ll get some flack for this but something I get with the Palestinian conflict is a lot of what I can only call ‘label-fatigue’. 

    By that I mean for the past two weeks Gaza has been said to be in a famine, near a famine, have famine like conditions and now it’s a “starvation crisis”. These labels often come from the UN, like today, these aren’t random Twitter bots. The result is I never feel like I have an understanding of what’s going on. 

    Last week the Guardian reported that Gaza was “at critical risk of famine” and the week before “hunger had been weaponised”. 

    But this has been going on for the whole conflict. In 9 Nov 2024 The Guardian was also reporting there was a “strong likelihood of imminent famine”. Part of the ICJ complaint SA made against Israel was saying there was already a “man made famine” and that was March 2024. 

    And this is nothing to take away from the suffering of people in Gaza, but it does make following what is actually happening very challenging. 

  5. Dutch public broadcasters NOS inquired about it with UN and was told that this figure was absolutely incorrect because somebody mixed up figures. According to NOS, the UN will formally rectify this reporting later today.

    Text and link:
    > Unicef: UN top man’s statements about 14,000 babies in mortal danger untrue, acute danger. Top man Tom Fletcher of the UN aid agency was mistaken when he spoke this morning about 14,000 Gazan babies in acute mortal danger, spokesman Wouter Booij of the UN children’s rights organization Unicef reports to NOS: “Unfortunately, UN figures have been accidentally mixed up here,” he says. “It is not correct that 14,000 babies could die in the next 48 hours due to a lack of baby food.” Where the wrong figures came from is not known; he says a formal rectification will follow later today from the UN. Booij: “What is true is that the situation in Gaza is extremely serious. Thousands of babies, children and young people are in acute danger because of malnutrition, because of the collapse of health care, and because of the lack of specialist help, for example for premature babies. This threat to children is real and life-threatening.”

    https://nos.nl/l/2567881#UPDATE-container-86244536

  6. The Israelis are making a land grab for Gaza, and having people alive there would be inconvenient. When the Palestinian population is reduced to a manageable(by way of force and surveillance like the uighurs) amount, they will take the land and “control” what is left of the population.

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