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Gaza is at a point of no return

85% of the population is in 5th stage of malnutrition. That's just over half a million. This stage is irreversible even if food became available in the future. We're talking brain damage/cognitive impairment, permanent changes in their DNA and of course death.

The worst thing about it? It’s engineered. A deliberate starvation campaign to punish every man, woman, and child in Gaza. None of this is inevitable. Just a mile away, trucks loaded with food sit idle at the border, denied entry by the IDF and violent settlers. All aid being withheld, a man-made famine, enforced with cruelty.

As a south asian who's ancestors suffered multiple intentional famines, I can tell you the impact of it in multiple generations. We suffer from diabetes and cardiovascular diseases at a much higher rate to this day. I can't believe we've let this happen again. Even with the world calling to save Palestine, it hasn't made any difference. I have no words
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basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M
As a south asian who's ancestors suffered multiple intentional famines, I can tell you the impact of it in multiple generations.

While I'm not South Asian, as a descendant on my mom's side of family who had leave Ireland and Scotland due to the Famine and Highland Clearances, I can relate.
@basilfawlty89 it doesn't surprise me why Ireland support Palestine so heavily
@basilfawlty89 In some ways I think our ancestors handled it better. With the Highland Clearances even English civilians saw it as wrong and confronted British soldiers to try and stop it and such standoffs made the broadsheets of the day.
basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow somewhat.

In the case of Cromwell, An Gorta Mór, and the Easter Uprising they were horrifically brutal. They burned down half of Corcaigh. And the English were not kind during The Troubles, nor were the Ulster Protestant paramilitaries.