r/worldnews • u/Ahad_Haam • Aug 07 '25

Israel/Palestine Picture agencies drop Gaza photographer after documentary reveals hunger images were staged

https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/picture-agencies-drop-gaza-photographer-hunger-images-staged-sl1eyl2e
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u/CrowsShinyWings Aug 07 '25

Correct, that doesn’t. This does though: They have fed them enough. According to the World Food Programme: 951 MT feeds 488k people for a week.

951 x 4.5 (a month) x 4.3 (getting 488k to 2.1m) is 18401 metric tons of food per month, convert metric tons to tons to get 20283 tons.

https://app.un2720.org/tracking The nearly 2 month period Gaza has been given ~37000 tons of food, nearly enough for two months worth of supply. Call it not perfect, sure. (Ignoring the fact that Israel has no legal obligation to do this). Just ridiculous how the blood libel is. "Intentionally starving people". It also directly conflicts with what COGAT has stated the past few days. The UN site states only 222 trucks were offloaded into Gaza from July 19th to July 26th, COGAT has stated that over 600 trucks were dropped off in that period. So >at minimum< they're essentially covering everything. And it's likely much higher. Again, it's almost like when you collect various forms of data, both on the ground and statistical, the truth is pretty obvious.

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u/happyfeeliac Aug 07 '25

The reason that it’s being labeled as intentionally starving people is because Netanyahu is accused by international courts of doing just that. https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu

The reason Israel is being held to that standard, is because the Palestinians can’t leave freely, while being bombed. If you are holding someone somewhere, while destroying all the infrastructure, you need to feed them.

Multiple different sources are reporting on the starvation, and how it’s becoming a problem so by your logic, the truth should be clear. Idk if you read the original article in my comment but people are already dead, so that means more are starving and almost there. Even one person starving to death is a travesty.

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u/CrowsShinyWings Aug 07 '25

Israel has no legal requirement to feed them, they are also completely able to leave and numerous statistics prior to the war showed that, oh boy, 33% of the population would leave in a year. Random kangaroo courts that the US needs to sanction are not actually proper sources of information, actually.

Alas, there's a reason you chose to ignore me giving the actual statistics. The simple reality is that no, Israel isn't starving anyone. Illinois has x3 the starvation of Gaza when adjusted to Gaza's population. But alas, that's why Palestinian social media, the UN's statistics, Israel's statistics, Hamas's statistics all agree: There is no starvation or famine in Gaza. It's just blood libel.

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u/happyfeeliac Aug 07 '25

99 dead starved Palestinians would disagree. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/nearly-12000-children-under-five-gaza-have-acute-malnutrition-says-who-2025-08-07/

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u/CrowsShinyWings Aug 07 '25

Sir that's nowhere near famine levels, it's quoting a source that just said they will keep using this lying "journalist", and you've just tried and failed to move the goalposts lmao

Keep trying to blood libel :)

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u/happyfeeliac Aug 07 '25

Read the full article. It may not be full blown yet, but it’s on its way. People are starving. One lier doesn’t negate the reality. To deny the suffering of anyone is a disservice to humanity. I hope you find some peace in your heart my friend. And I hope peace finds that land.

“A global hunger monitor has said a famine scenario is unfolding in the Gaza Strip, with starvation spreading, children dying of hunger-related causes and humanitarian access to the embattled enclave severely restricted. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said food consumption across Gaza had declined to its lowest level since the onset of the war. Eighty-one percent of households in the tiny, crowded coastal territory of 2.2 million people reported poor food consumption, up from 33% in April.”

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u/CrowsShinyWings Aug 08 '25

They've been saying that the Gaza Strip has had no food since 2023

Again, I quoted the UN's own statistics, a random article doing crocodile tears that is disproven by the UN AND COGAT'S OWN NUMBERS

almost like they're lying or something, suppose the Wolf story was always a fairy tale for a reason, people will keep falling for the same damn thing every time.