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Uncle Joe

(60,346 posts) Tue Dec 31, 2024, 02:16 PM Dec 31

Gaza Winter: Doctors Warn Thousands of Palestinians Could Die from Cold, Hunger, Disease

International outrage is growing over Israel’s abduction of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Jabaliya refugee camp, who was detained after Israeli forces raided and shut down the last major hospital in northern Gaza last week. A new United Nations report finds that Israeli strikes on and near hospitals in the Gaza Strip have “pushed the healthcare system to the brink of total collapse.” Displaced Palestinians throughout the territory are dying from the ongoing Israeli bombardment, as well as injuries, infections and diseases due to Israel’s restrictions on medical care and medical supplies. At least six babies have also died of hypothermia in recent days amid plunging winter temperatures. “Living conditions are just deplorable. They are not compatible with human life,” says Dr. Mimi Syed, an emergency medicine physician who just left Gaza after volunteering there for a month. We also speak with trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, who previously volunteered at the European Hospital in Khan Younis. “It’s very likely that tens or even hundreds of thousands of people are going to die of the combination of malnutrition, displacement, exposure to the elements and hypothermia this winter,” says Sidhwa.

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Gaza Winter: Doctors Warn Thousands of Palestinians Could Die from Cold, Hunger, Disease (Original Post) Uncle Joe Dec 31 OP

All the conditions necessary for life have been systematically destroyed AloeVera Dec 31 #1

I believe that to be the ultimate question Uncle Joe Dec 31 #2

AloeVera

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1. All the conditions necessary for life have been systematically destroyed

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Tue Dec 31, 2024, 04:54 PM

Dec 31

We all watched it happen over nearly 15 months. It really doesn't take a genocide expert to have seen where this was leading, starting with the 7,000 bombs dropped during just the first week. Then the systematic, methodical destruction of all infrastructure and conditions necessary for life.

Oh I forgot. There were REASONS.

Because Hamas had HUMAN SHIELDS (TM) stashed inside dozens of water towers and all sewage pipes, water pumps, under agricultural land and fishing boats, heritage sites and fertility clinics, maternity wards and under every fucking main road, especially those leading to aid distribution centres, bakeries and flour mills being a favourite human shield location. And of course we know that every hospital had battalions of fighters and tanks/apaches ambushing and obliterating the poorly armed and defenceless innocent IDF soldiers. We saw the battles with our own eyes! And who could forget the multi-story, high-tech Command and Control Centre under Al Shifa Hospital? Where thousands of fighters attacked from. It's a miracle any IDF survived THAT massacre! Though we know that the 15 premature babies in incubators left to die by Hamas did indeed die. Maybe it was another hospital but it sure was horrific. Barbarians!

Wait. That wasn't Hamas. Nor is the rest of it true.

We are sick to death of being gaslighted by the web of lies and deceit.

Does anyone in power in the West have any fucking moral backbone to say ENOUGH and end this planned genocide Palestinians? Before hundreds of thousands more die? Hello, Dear West?

Uncle Joe

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2. I believe that to be the ultimate question

Reply to AloeVera (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 31, 2024, 08:08 PM

Dec 31

If we don't answer it in the affirmative we haven't learned anything from the Holocaust or World War 2, meaning that at some point in the future humanity is doomed to World War 3.

Since the League of Nations established after the first World War wasn't sufficiently advanced enough to prevent the second World War from happening, and the United Nations established after the second World War seems insufficient to stop an ongoing genocide and probable World War 3, then perhaps the organization that grows out of the third global conflict will find whatever is left of humanity if anything to finally have reached mature wisdom or national/global adulthood by then?

Of course to anyone who has played the game (s) "Fallout" this seems like a dim potential reality as well.

"War never changes" aka for all it's immense power the human species is too fearful, greedy and stupid to grow up.

We don't seem to give teaching, or learning about the humanities its due in our education system. They don't readily match up as well with our monetary based value system.

Compared to us, the Dinosaurs were extremely successful primarily because we as a species don't seem to have the emotional courage or intelligence to match our technological power.

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