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

An interview with an ACTUAL genocide scholar who happens to be Israeli and Jewish.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/20/world/video/gps0720-israel-gaza-genocide

Yes, it's genocide.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@basilfawlty89 Again, does assigning a word to it make any difference? Why not use that term in other circumstances? I give up with you, you are diverting the attention, the war must end!

basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M

@samueltyler2 the word was coined by Lemkin to refer to the mass murder of the Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks by the Ottoman Turks, and then the subsequent murder of European Jews in the Holocaust.

Genos (Greek) - people
Cide (Latin) - murder

Yes, the word is important as it is defined as "the mass murder of a racial, ethnic, or religious group with the goal of destroying them wholly or in part"

Genocide is a crime.
Genocide has consequences.
So yes, it is important.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@basilfawlty89 And killing tens of thousands? Come on, it is a case only of semantics. THE WARS must end.

basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M

@samueltyler2 no, it's not semantics.

Genocide does not mean "lots of people died and stuff", it has a very specific meaning.

If you need help with it, we have lots of Greek members on SW that can oblige you seeing as their ancestors suffered that atrocity by the Ottoman Turks and Mustafa Kemal's nationalists.