The UN warns that half the population of Gaza is starving and nine out of ten people there can’t eat every day - as Israeli bombardment of the territory continues

A hospital boss in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, says his team has “lost control” over the numbers of dead and wounded arriving at the facility

The city is surrounded by Israeli tanks on two sides; the Israeli military says it’s fighting from house to house

The death of an Israeli hostage - Sahar Baruch, 25 - has been confirmed by his kibbutz and a hostages’ group, following reports of a failed Israeli rescue operation

On Friday, the US blocked a resolution at the UN Security Council calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, arguing this would be dangerous and unrealistic

  • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    but by doing so he is causing lot of damage to his image, american reputation and even to Ukraine. Am 100% against putin but its funny to see him getting arrest warrant for kidnapping ukrainian children while Israel gets pass for killing 17k person of them lot of children and women. It didnt even sign the genieva convension.

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      1 year ago

      It’s definitely a hard call by Biden. There are no right, easy answers to the problem. What I know with absolute certainty is I’d rather have Biden handling the situation than Trump. I don’t like the way it looks and feels, but I know we’re at least doing better than the alternative.

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        I genuinely can’t see how Trump could have responded to Israel’s actions here worse than Biden. The rhetoric states side might have been more toxic, but Biden has been cheering on the genocide about as hard as anyone could, and doesn’t seem to have any real victories towards peace. I guess maybe they avoided an Israeli ground invasion in Lebanon, if that was actually in the cards?

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      Less a pass and more a shield of 75 years of “if you disagree you’re an antisemite!” giving the west a flinch reaction

      It also doesn’t help Russia’s side of the equation that their response to this is often, “WHY DON’T WE GET TO DO IT THEN‽”