The public sentiment is dominated by sorrow and outrage over the situation of starving children in Gaza, with many calling for urgent humanitarian intervention and holding both local and global political leaders accountable. Comments reveal a strong divide in opinion, with some attributing blame to Hamas for mismanagement, while others criticize Israeli policies and the indifference of the international community. Overall, there's a profound emotional plea for immediate action and support for the innocent children caught in the conflict.

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This is beyond heartbreaking and to know that my country is behind this is beyond tragic, I hope that there will be some hope for this child.

Gold-Recognition-618

Poor babies.

When we donate money for Gaza and relief in Gaza, yeah I know the seige doesn't let aid in except from that corrupt GHF scam. But there is some economy in Gaza, albeit with terribly overinflated prices. When you send money via a reputable charity, what that does is it enables the internal charities of Gaza to distribute aid to these families who are struggling so much more than everyone else. So it's worth donating. I picked up a card/flyer about a well known Muslim charity yesterday from the kebab shop. I think I'll look into donating to them.

VladSuarezShark

Jesus, that poor child. Can anyone explain the incessant flies attracted to him??

howdoyoupronouncegif

What the people of Gaza are going through is horrific and appalling. The Zionists, the modern-day criminals, are implementing the Nazi project with professionalism. The infamous Nazi leader, Hitler, that criminal, said what the criminal Netanyahu is saying today:
 (genocide) (deportation) (final solution).
#Gazagenocide
#GazaStarving
#OpenWayForGaza

Firm-Peace7719

Dangerous-Flow1374

This is heartbreaking. No child should suffer like this. Israel’s blockade has created a humanitarian catastrophe that the world must not ignore. Where is the accountability?

Greedy_Writing5562

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Which_Veterinarian55

What’s happening to Yazan isn’t just neglect it’s a result of a cruel, systematic starvation campaign targeting an entire population. This is a war on children.
#GazaGenocide #StarvationAsAWarCrime #FreePalestine #EndTheSiege #StandWithGaza

Yousssef-Mohamed

what do you call it when it's heartbreaking, but no more heart left to break?

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Astaghfirullah, may Allah SWT forgive our failure to unite, as well as cause the liberation of the Ummah of Rasuulullah SAW residing under oppression, Aamiin

WeeklyEmu4838

The continuous atrocities of the z10nist terrorists have to STOP

FlyerWithWings

Starving civilians and children is a war crime
ZIONIST SHOULD STOP THESE CRIMES

Miserable-Edge-4062

Yazan's emaciated body is a chilling indictment. This isn't just "lack of food"; it's Israel's deliberate starvation. A child, rendered unable to walk, while the world watches. Unforgivable.

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Available-Love-2283

All Gazan’s are starving but if children won’t move world nothing will
It is up to the people to move

Practical_Setting336

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Wooden_River4152

44% of the population of Gaza is 14 and under. If every single person in Gaza is starving, most of them will be children.

scubafork

A large minority of people in Gaza are children. A relatively active child age 10 burns about 1500 kcal. An adult will burn 2000 kcal. So in essence, the amount of food they need is quite similar. An adult will usually have more fat on them than a child, so they can starve for a bit longer before running into trouble. Children also need nutrients and protein for growth, whereas an adult might be able to go longer without. 

And then I think children might not always have someone that cares for them. That means they are dependant on others giving them food. Since they probably dont have the wits and strength to get/find food themselves. They are children after all. 

  
All these factors result in this.

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DizzyMine4964

It's pretty obvious. If an adult that weighs say 70kg loses 10kg it's not such a big issue. If a child that weighs 20kg loses 10kg that's half of their body weight

Ok-Abbreviations1077

This is a really weird take on the whole issue. You think parents are just feeding themselves and watching their kids die? For the whole of existence, children have been weaker than adults.

FishingWorth3068

well... infants quite famously have different nutritional needs from adults. babies need milk and later soft foods... unlike adults who can get by on scraps.

anthonypreacher

Ironmasked-Kraken

Adults usually have more fat reserves built up even if they're not overweight. It's not good for anyone and this whole thing is shameful.

EdgeMiserable4381

Maybe their parents got killed in all the bombs that were dropped?

They've had to drop the food rations by parachute because they won't allow the trucks in. Being parachuted in is not ideal, it's literally a survival of the fittest getting them in the first place. Its not like every family is given a ration. Its whoever gets there first.

Children are also still developing their immune systems, that combined with starvation will kill them faster. 

The parents also need to eat a little to look after their children, you think if their parents die they won't still starve when someone else takes their food?

Lunaspoona

Are you implying the parents are starving their children? No, **their parents are dead**. How weird of you.

flappintitties

Adults have more fat reserves and are less vulnerable to organ failure than children 

kittenmachine69

Children require less food but also have less reserves.  Adults can go longer without proper nutrition.

Also as mentioned it’s a very young population

fluffysmaster

PicklesMcpickle

Parents could be  dead or doing all they can with nothing while they watch their kids dwindle and then die.

Don't blame their parents. Blame a group that proclaimed that the starving of children was acceptable.

anewleaf1234

I would imagine a lot of these kids are orphans, considering all the adults who have been killed in the fighting. With no adult to protect them and provide food, they are vulnerable to starvation.

Crazy_Banshee_333

Children - in a way starve more easily.

They can also be more picky eaters. Imagine there is nothing to eat but something very undesirable. An adult could stomach it down and maybe force themselves not to vomit - a little kid could not.

Also - the adults with specific food needs (celiac, allergies… ) are for the most part already dead. The kids who couldn’t just eat anything - including grass, weeds, animal feed, …. Where given the ‘best’ food from the adults. Those adults are dead so now the kids are dying.

TedIsAwesom

Perhaps families have more than two children, so most people would be children.

Ok_Sort7430

Parents are also starving. What: you think it's a lie? Who gives a crap what age a starving person is?? Feed them.

QuirkyForever

Children have huge nutritional requirements to grow and significantly smaller bodies to store resources. An adult can go far longer on far less food than a child can, because the demands on their body are less and the reserves they have are more. Even if the adults are giving everything they can to the children, it's not enough. A lot of nothing is still nothing: there is ZERO food remaining.

jellylime

Maybe the parents that were willing to sacrifice themselves have already died off, leaving the surviving children to starve.

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Due_Essay447

Good question, but it is a matter of what age. The youngest children SHOULD be the least affected, they are smaller and need less calories. However, that flips for teenagers who are both significant in size and growing quickly. Active teenagers might need as many as 3500 calories per day.

Perennial_Phoenix

There's not a lot of baby formula available.

Terrible-Prior732

They aren’t just “claims.” Have you seen the videos and photos of these starving people? I’ve seen both children and old people who are dying or have already died.

Anonymoosehead123

Young children usually die sooner in famine situations because they're not as strong and don't have the same fat reserves. Women tend to survive longest in famines because we have more body fat. Analysis of the Donner Party mortality rates showed that kids aged 6-14 actually had the lowest mortality rate, but kids under 6 had by far the highest. 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1022425/ 

Also, if you haven't yet, read up on the Donner Party. It's a crazy story, and it doesn't even start with them getting stranded in the mountains.

bibliophile222

Here's a list:

1. Children are a huge portion of the population of Gaza, so even if they die at equal rates they'll still seem "over represented".
2. An adult whose children have died can still survive, but children who lack adults around them often can't fend for themselves.
3. Children are weaker and less resilient to starvation than adults. They have less physical and mental reserves.
4. Adults preferentially feeding children can only change the *timing* of a famine, not its ultimate outcome. You can keep children alive by underfeeding yourself, but only for so long. Edit: and you *cannot* even do this if the child is still breastfeeding.
5. How people respond to famine isn't always rational or moral. Don't expect desperate people to do the 'right' thing (and don't expect yourself to do so either, in the circumstances). If you want people to be good and do good, don't wilfully put them in bad situations.

Indecipherable_Grunt

* everyone is starving
* starving children are more newsworthy
* most of the aid making its way to Gaza are being “accidentally” targeted.

Mikey129

So your response to children are starving is to rationalize that there couldn’t really be starvation because…I can’t even imagine what kind of mind is parsing out “most” as a justification to your question.

doc-sci

Most people in Gaza are children, hence most people starving are children. Children are also more susceptible to starvation because their little bodies gobble up all the energy they can get trying to grow so they don’t generally have reserves. 

If you have zero food it doesn’t matter how much you want to help your kids, they starve anyways

Anonymous_1q

They aren't really starving. Its propaganda.  I watched a video with a British doctor and a bunch of supposedly starving Palestinians. The doctor was the skinniest person in the video by far.

Fhloston-Paradisio

How do you think babies get milk if the mother isn't eating?

Existing-Number-4129

The fact that the situation involve other causes of death. The fact that some adults are weaker than some children. The fact that not all children have parents. And apparently a concerning number of neurons.

UnscriptedDiatribe

Is that what you’re worried about? How inhumna and disrespectful

Safe-Heron-195

What do you plan to gain from finding the (obvious) answers to this question? Did you really think the parents are to blame or?

OddAmoeba_

They aren't.  Most children aren't and the adults are taking care of themselves.

Cultural-Chocolate-9

Because they aren't starving and it's made up by Hamas

ElonTaco

because when you are starving to death you would eat your baby if you had to.

animals do it all the time.

WTF is the point of saving a baby if all the adults starve?  it would then just die

EveryAccount7729

# **Gaza is being starved**


Now is the time to act. The UN has stated that every part of Gaza is in famine conditions.

This is not a food shortage; it is a siege. Even with aid beginning to move, it is not enough; babies are still dying of malnutrition, and hundreds of thousands are living on the edge of starvation. Every crumb that enters is a result of pressure, not policy. This is the moment to organise, to donate, and to refuse silence.

**If we don’t act, we’re not witnesses. We’re participants.**

What you can do: donate to verified aid orgs on the ground, join local protests and organising efforts, share information &amp; amplify Palestinian voices.

Aid access can be taken away as quickly as it was granted. Don’t let them close the gates again.

**Donate here** to [The Palestinian Red Crescent](https://www.palestinercs.org/en/Donation) and [UNICEF for Gaza's Children](https://help.unicef.org/donate-to-children-in-gaza). Contact your representatives to stop Israel's blockade in Gaza — find U.S. representatives [here](https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative) and EU reps [here](https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home). If you would like other subreddits to carry this message, please send the mods to r/RedditForHumanity.


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GlitteringRate6296

Another Zionazi, disgracing his religion, and country! We see you and we are done with your genocidal bs!

FunDog2016

Lucapatuca

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DropCommercial6446

May they receive freely what they give freely.

MidnightGlittering75

Two years of CONSTANTLY carpet bombing a small densely populated, destroying their hospitals, their farms, their food pantries, their roads, their schools, their grocery stores. 

Now these people are saying “but GAZANS don’t know how to behave and be civil, how do we distribute food?”

You evil Zios you took their civilization from them, you took away all civility from them. And remember Karma is real!

Pale_Extreme_7042

Heartbreaking but this is the level humanity has stooped to

Business_Elephant_42

It's really hell there and everybody who doesn't see it is just blind in the heart and eyes too 😔

Fair-Chair-4051

An Israeli will probably say: he's really chubby...

trombadinha85

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great_account

I wish everyone what they wish for Palestine and the Palestinians.

PipitHutan

Everytime i see videos of families and children lining up for food i just pray they are able to make it back to their families with their food and their lives. Too many babies whose hands couldnt handle the burning hot food in the pan or it gets knocked out of their hands. Too many who didnt make it back to their families with the small amount of food they were given. FREE PALESTINE!! END ZIONISM !!!

Same_Description_379

Hey, Everybody...apparently, all the videos We see, apparently We "aren't seeing".  Just ask a zio.

RasJudahDCyfahGod

La Hawla wa La Quwatta Illa Billahilaliyuladheem Rabighfirli

حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

Left-Chemist-4605

evry1willbquestioned

Both_Woodpecker_3041

This fills me with such rage...

How can humanity be so vile?!

WardenJack

the smile on his face when he gets something. fuck the zionist pigs for this

DHunterfan1983

boogermanjack

If you imprison millions of people in the world's largest open air prison, it's only a matter of time that the falsely imprisoned turn to behavior that their Israeli wardens will understand -- violence.

LeakyFuelTank

Daggerdouche

Israel is the Nazi Germany of our time and the U.S. is its enabler.

traanquil

Obviously it isn't breaking the hearts of many German or British people considering they are actively participating in the genocide

realdealoneill46

Final_Priority99

kbigdelysh

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LoSnupo

There is no other news than Gaza.
Gaza is the only news.

Paragazian93

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Dry-Blueberry-6885

wHy iS It AlWaYs OnLy OnE pErSoN aS pRoOf oF StArVaTiOn? - some dumbass redditor i came across today

CoconutMilkOnTheMoon

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Kore_Invalid

He looks quite healthy tbh. This is just bs hamas propaganda.

mac_bd

kittycatsurprise

For years, Arabs in Israel — about 20% of the population — have generally had decent opportunities and living conditions. I even know an Arab professor at Tel Aviv who’s a brilliant mathematician.

Right now, I just hope people in Gaza can one day have the same kind of life.

kaiseryet

Oh F off already with these lazy PR stunts…

winterchainz

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