This is a picture of famine...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--jvA033jDp0/WIpYzcTuTJI/AAAAAAABXI4/GURP4wVM29kpDx5mH0wI93duYD-NmFVzACLcB/s1600/SoOre5f.jpg

This is a picture of propaganda...
http://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/2ABTKNDFERL6TDH4B5C6X25ABY.jpg?auth=c21774314220c66ff92b07456d5f7faf850ed452b03b591d26dad10f8e9b833c&width=1920&quality=80

hint: mothers of starving kids don't look like candidates for Sports Illustrated Plus size issue.

This is a picture of a poor kid with cerebral palsy being used for propaganda and fund-raising....

http://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/NVQVWEEUDZBRNE22NV46Q2UFPU.JPG?auth=9f11d4c029f0be56b09f45a544792a2bf81b991909eecc5711c8aada5b3b4935&width=720&quality=80

mhaze, you are clueless,

I see hungry people, Australians, several times a week, just yesterday 2 homeless guys, came in telling us they were hungry. Sure they didn't look like your picture, but never the less they were in need of a feed! In your sheltered world with your contented "blindness", you think starvation is something in remote parts of drought stricken Africa, well its not, its in Australia and Gaza as well!

Hi Paul, Yuyutsu,

Israel denies famine looms in Gaza but according to
Jeremy Bowen, BBC International Editor, the evidence
is overwhelming.

He tells us that the famine has been caused by the
siege Israel imposed just after the 7th October attacks.

At the time Israeli-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said:

"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There
will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is
closed."

"We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly."

Israel was forced by international pressure to allow in
limited supplies of aid. But over six months it hasn't been
anything like enough.

Israel has argued, inaccurately, that hunger in Gaza was
caused by Hamas stealing and stock piling aid and the UN's
failure to distribute what was left.

Close supporters of Israeli PM Netanyahu and his government
continue to deny there is a famine and any allegations
that Israel was starving civilians were anti-Israel
propaganda, or were based on anti-Semitism.

However, as Jeremy Bowen tells us - the evidence is
overwhelming.

Both Israel and Hamas have entrenched positions and have no
inclination to budge. As Bowen says - this is bad news for
everyone, especially Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and the
surviving Israeli hostages.

As of 14 Feb. 2024 112 hostages had been returned alive to
Israel, with 105 being released in a prisoner exchange deal,
4 released by Hamas unilaterally, and 3 rescued by the IDF.

http://bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68788140

http://trtworld.com/middle-east/boy-whose-pictures-showed-reality-of-gaza-famine-dies-under-israeli-siege-17231626

"Its a war crime to base troops within civilian areas to use them as human shields. I don't expect Hamas to be called out by the UN for that from rather obvious reasons."

That's somewhat reasonable.
We could go into the 'somewhat' if you like.

You want to know what is reasonable though?

That it's probably some kind of war crime or crime against humanity to target a UN designated safe zone for refugees with missiles and to burn several dozen children alive.

Fair's fair.

Hi AC,

It reminds me of Vietnam where the Americans targeted the villages, as the Viet Cong were "hiding out" in the villages. The trouble was the Viet Cong were the villages. No big army bases and flash uniforms like the Americans had, just peasants with old WWII guns.

I told you months ago about the ones 'who would die tomorrow'
I told you the ones who died today don't matter, well they matter but you can't bring them back.
- It's the ones who will die tomorrow, and it needn't be this way.
Right now these people are still alive, but tomorrow they won't be anymore.
What will the point of their deaths?

Well, in a few days time it'll be 'the day after tomorrow'.
Tomorrow will have came and went.

And all the people that die needlessly tomorrow who are still alive today won't matter anymore either, because they won't be coming back.

On and on it goes, day after day.