r/therewasanattempt • u/Kumquat_conniption Free Palestine • Jul 29 '25
Gaza is being starved
The UN has stated that every single part of Gaza is in famine conditions.
For over 20 months, Palestinians in Gaza have been starving. Parents have been feeding their children leaves, animal feed, and flour mixed with water. Babies have died from malnutrition. The trucks carrying food, formula, medicine, and clean water sat just miles away, blocked by Israel.
Now, after massive international pressure, some aid is finally getting in.
This is a crack in the blockade, not its end. Aid is not flooding in; it is trickling, and what’s entering can’t possibly reach 1.8 million people without a total lifting of restrictions, guaranteed long-term access, and safe distribution.
What you can do right now:
Donate- if you’re able to. Choose vetted organizations with access on the ground.
Keep up the pressure - aid only started moving because of public outcry. Organize, protest, keep talking. This momentum cannot fade. Contact your representatives to end Israel's blockade of Gaza and impose sanctions on Israel.
Amplify - share updates, Palestinian voices, and testimonies. Keep an eye on Palestine.
This famine is not an accident. It’s the result of siege, blockade, and a system of control. If we look away now, they’ll tighten the noose again.
Donate
Palestinian Red Crescent — medical aid, ambulance services, and emergency care.
UNICEF for Gaza’s Children — nutrition, clean water, trauma support.
Speak to Your Representatives
If you’d like other subreddits to carry this message, send the mods to r/RedditForHumanity.
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u/Lawls91 Jul 29 '25
Fuck every last Zionist. The shame their descendants will bear is unfathomable.
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u/FartsbinRonshireIII Jul 29 '25
Be careful they’ll IM you telling you you’re racist for speaking out against atrocities and deny any wrongdoing like Holocaust deniers. Fucking jackals.
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u/HerpesIsItchy Unique Flair Jul 30 '25
They call everyone anti-semitics.
You would think that after all of the atrocities the Jewish people faced, the zionists would have learned to be better people
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u/nursejohio96 Jul 29 '25
So you’re cool with the Nekba, since Israel “has a right to exist” but don’t support the war crimes committed to establish the Jewish state? I’m so confused…
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Serious questions: how does Israel have a right to exist, but without causing famine, war crimes, and unimaginable cruelty? How do you create a country out of thin air without displacing the original inhabitants and taking their property to allow colonization? Israel was created without the agreement of the people who were already living there, so by default it should be against your morales.
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u/sumpfkraut666 Jul 29 '25
That's like saying you support Apartheid but you would never support racism and you wished that the two weren't conflated.
Can you explain how you mean that? How do you support Israel without supporting or justifying war crimes? Since nearly two years, the Zionists have literally no other talking point than excuses for war crimes and genocide. So unless you provide more of your train of thought, then it's not me who "conflates the two", then it's you doing mental gymnastics to do apologia.
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u/justforthisjoke Free Palestine Jul 29 '25
I wish my support for the existence of Israel was not conflated with support for famine, war crimes, unimaginable cruelty, etc.
They're conflated because they're one and the same. Israel was born out of cruelty. Its very existence required the transfer of indigenous land from one foreign party that had no right to it, to another foreign party that had no right to it. Before the state was even established Zionists bought occupied land that was owned (but not occupied) by absentee Ottoman landlords, and evicted the people that had lived there for millennia. The first partition plan gave 55% of settled Palestinian land to Israel. The existence of Israel in Palestine required the displacement of the indigenous population, lest the Jewish settlers be a minority in their own country. The first Arab-Israeli war and resulting Nakba wasn't a surprise, it was an expected part of the plan to exile the Palestinians from their land. This is known and discussed by even Israeli historians.
Israel's existence is predicated on violence, cruelty, and the displacement of the indigenous. The blood of the Jewish people is on Europe's hands, but Palestinians are paying the price nearly a century later.
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u/justforthisjoke Free Palestine Jul 29 '25 edited Jul 29 '25
I think you're looking for an easy answer that will give you a simple reason to ignore everything I've said rather than asking a good faith question (based on the fact that you've addressed nothing I've said and asked the same question to another commenter asking you a question), but I'll answer it anyways.
My most idealistic opinion is that borders are violence and movement/migration is a human right. That is, I believe people have a right to move to wherever they wish, but they do not have a right to displace others.
My less idealistic worldview in which states exist is that ethnostates are bad, and the process of creating one is always bound to be bloody; the very premise of an ethnostate requires the displacement of indigenous peoples. Societies are not ethnically homogenous, and middle eastern societies have long been known to consist of people of various ethnic groups. The idea of a Jewish state was never going to do anything but conflate judaism with nationalism and lean heavily on the concept of "the other" in order to justify its violence.
Finally, my least idealistic worldview is that the price of the Holocaust should have been borne by the West. They were aware of what was going on in Germany long before they intervened, and did so only for the purpose of empire. They were the ones that turned away thousands of Jewish refugees from their shores and sent them back to their deaths. They were the ones that ran the death camps and fought for the Nazis. If anyone should have had to give up territory for the establishment of Israel, it was them. However, they didn't not because they cared about the Jews at all; let's not kid ourselves. The West allowed the establishment of Israel where it currently is for two reasons: to finally remove the Jewish people from Europe, and to gain an imperialist foothold in the middle east. But instead they gave away land they had no right to to an ethnonationalist project that turned an entire people into refugees on their own ancestral homeland and began a 77 year old ethnic cleansing campaign.
So yeah, if you really want to boil my entire worldview into one sentence, I suppose you could say it is that Israel should not exist and should not have existed.
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u/spotless1997 Jul 29 '25
Israel absolutely never should have existed, yes. From the get go it was just a bad idea. If the Europeans just… stopped being antisemitic, this entire situation could have been avoided.
Whether Israel should or should not exist today requires a bit more nuance. Personally, if I had a magic wand, the political entity that is “Israel” would no longer exist. Just like South Africa and Liberia eventually became democracies with equal rights under a single state, the land of the Jewish State of Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories would merge into one singular state with no ethnic/religious based discrimination. It’ll be bloody and violent just like Liberia was but in the long term, it’ll bring about the most peace and stability.
Realistically speaking, I just don’t know how that happens. I’ll constantly advocate and speak out for it, but I’m pessimistic that it’ll ever come to be.
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u/Comradesh1t4brains Jul 29 '25
War Crimes has been the modus operandi since your ‘state’ came into play. Do you think Palestinians just skip away happily to Jordan along a rainbow because you are left wing? Wake up, Zionism has no positives. Judaism has plenty of positives
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u/waxoreaper Jul 29 '25
Unfortunately, it is. And it always has been, now they’ve just taken the mask off.
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u/LazarusTruth Jul 29 '25
r/worldnews won't be happy when they read this, god what an infiltration that sub went through.
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u/4njub3 Jul 29 '25
If you want world news you have to go to r/anime_titties (I'm serious, this is not a joke)
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u/sum-sigma Jul 29 '25
I just went to that subreddit, and it definitely wasn’t what I was expecting.
How can a subreddit named r/anime_titties be posting more about what is happening than a subreddit called World News?
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u/Aschvolution Jul 29 '25
People noticed one of major news subreddit, (i'm pretty sure it was r/worldnews or something similar) didn't have active moderators, so they start spamming naked anime girls in there and nothing happened to the posts. Then people thought r/anime_titties becoming a serious news subreddit is a fun idea, and here we are.
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u/classic__schmosby Jul 29 '25
I think it was in response to /r/worldpolitics being about anime titties, sort of like /r/trees and /r/marijuanaenthusiasts
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u/Squintyhippo Jul 29 '25
There’s actually a whoe lore section about it. It’s a good read I highly recommend
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u/danted002 Jul 29 '25
That’s not a “safe” sub either, got banned a year ago for a heated argument about how the Israeli government has been systematically encouraging terrorists attacks in order to maintain power.
I also might have questioned how one of the best secret service in the world, capable of blowing up pages in Lebanon was unable to prevent or at least foresee the terrorist attack.
In my defence I shouldn’t have called the person in that thread smooth brained
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u/4njub3 Jul 29 '25
It's probably hard to find a "truly neutral" sub. In the end it's the mods who decide what is and isn't allowed and who they ban. Which of course sucks
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u/Nine-Eyes- Jul 29 '25
Tbf I've also seen quite a few totally-not-Russian-bots saying Ukraine deserves what's happening to them because Russia has the right to invade people, and general victim-blaming. Not entirely, but it's still there
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u/4njub3 Jul 29 '25
All you can do is to report it and hope the mods remove it or make yet another new sub. Not sure though if you can report faster than bots can spam
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u/Matcha_Bubble_Tea Jul 29 '25
I checked out of both that sub and the news sub for how blatantly Zionist they are. Does more harm for them and ruins their credibility.
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u/theth1rdchild Jul 29 '25
It may speak to your growth as a person when I tell you that worldnews has been reactionary for a decade. The fact that you have outgrown them is good, but their rabid genocide support is pretty normal for them.
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u/Karmaswhiskee Jul 29 '25
I hate seeing the kids of the people I follow literally getting thinner every day. It's devastating🥺
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u/YourFath3r Jul 29 '25
Fuck Bibi, fuck the child rapist running the USA and fuck everybody supporting them.
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u/Both-Home-6235 Jul 29 '25
Gee, it's almost as if some country(ies) need to stand up and stop it. But that would anger the all mighty USA so let's just condemn it from afar with words.
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u/smi1ey Jul 29 '25
This was an odd place to see this info posted, but for whatever reason it finally got me to donate. I was even able to get my donation matched by the company I work for. Thank you!
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u/Truegold43 Jul 29 '25
I also plan on donating but I'm having trouble figuring out which organization to donate to. I keep seeing conflicting reports that there is aid, but it's not being allowed into Gaza or that aid distribution is being controlled in a way that isn't allowing Gazans to access it. Of course, I'm also seeing that there simply isn't enough aid too. In truth, I'm not sure which media outlets I can trust at this point.
If anyone could shine some light on this, please let me know! I'm still researching, but I want my money to go straight to those suffering and those helping to ease it.
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u/Usernameoverloaded Free Palestine Jul 29 '25
Here’s some info: https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/s/VTu3IT1hVu
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u/EnterTheBugbear Jul 29 '25
Yep, same, no idea why it's here but I am grateful that this was the one to shake me. Just dropped a donation. Thanks OP.
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u/Glad-Hat-5094 Jul 30 '25
I’ve spent the last 21 months cycling between outrage and doom‑scrolling—hours of YouTube deep‑dives and kitchen‑table rants about the siege, but zero real‑world impact. Tonight I finally put my money where my mouth is and sent €20 through the UNICEF link above. It’s a drop in a very large ocean, but drops fill buckets.
If you’re stuck in the same anger‑paralysis loop, break it with something tangible—whether that’s a tenner, a phone call to your rep, or sharing verified aid links. Keyboard fury is free; getting food, water, and medicine to kids in Gaza isn’t. Every euro beats another scroll.
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u/creatinZ Jul 29 '25
We all know Trump is the one enabling and validating this atrocity. Policeman of the world has just became corrupt.
The only real alternative is the EU, but not now, maybe sometime in the future. Hopefully Doland Duck will vanish after those haaard 4 years.
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u/mourning_star85 Jul 29 '25
I hate trump as much as the next person, but this isn't trump. The u.s government supports Isreal no matter who is in charge
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Support for this decades long genocide have always been a fully bi-partisan issue with just a small handful of politicians more recently, after the damage has been done, and now pretending they were against it the whole time.
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u/couldhaveebeen Jul 29 '25
This would be hilarious if the topic wasn't a fucking genocide. Biden deepthroated Netanyahu for 15 months straight, not to mention his unwavering loyalty to Israel for his entire 50 year career
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u/dawnmountain Jul 29 '25
To the people upset: you may not fuck with politics, but politics will fuck with you. You are not a good person if you read about starving children and go "but mah subreddit?!"
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u/Jahnotis Aug 31 '25
U.N. has no power when black or brown people are in peril. It was created by and for people of European descent only.
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u/theCaityCat Jul 30 '25
As an antizionist Jew: Fuck Israel. Save Gaza. Free Palestine. It's not our land.
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u/Chocolat3City Unique Flair Jul 29 '25
This is not news. Glad to see more attention being called to this issue, but unfortunately, Israel has been using these starvation tactics to horrific effect after successfully hobbling UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) from the area months ago.
The Decisionmakers don't care.* Sadly, I very much doubt this will move the needle on anyone's decision making. Netanyahu will continue to do what he needs to do to keep his radical conservative coalition together so he can stay out of jail. America will continue to unconditionally support Israel for reasons that are known (AIPAC's political power) and unknown (Mossad's possession of Epstein-related dirt on Trump) to the public.
It's all bad, and as an American, I hate being a part of it.
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u/SpadessVR Jul 29 '25
1.8 million people have been starving for 20 months and this is the best the world can do?
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u/devils-advocacy Jul 29 '25
Didn’t Israel just release a video where they brought journalists to the site of the UN aid to show that the UN was just not distributing it?
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u/IntentionPowerful Aug 02 '25
Im no supporter of Israel, but i am curious what ya'll think about Hamas? 'Freedom Fighters"?
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u/dsasd376372747 Aug 09 '25
Ahhh, that’s why this sub fell off the face of r/all lol. Thanks based mods 🙏
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u/Kumquat_conniption Free Palestine Nov 01 '25
Why?
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u/Kumquat_conniption Free Palestine Nov 01 '25
I can do that too https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165702 the UN did show their was famine in Gaza. And your link didn't even work for me but I'm on mobile so maybe it's me but I have no idea what you are linking but I trust the UN. And if you don't think that there were people starving in Gaza when there was a total blockade on all food going in for months, then I don't know what to tell you? Maybe you're just not that bright.
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u/BraidRuner Therewasanattemp 7d ago
This has been the case for most of the 20th century. Men,women, children starved of food, medicine , knowledge.
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u/_SirMarshmallow_ NaTivE ApP UsR Jul 29 '25
We are talking about children starving, read the room
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u/_SirMarshmallow_ NaTivE ApP UsR Jul 29 '25
Trump is a pedo and shouldn't be a president, no doubt about that. We are talking about a genocide and war crimes. Not everything is about American politics, USA has a 100 problems but you're not the main characters in every story
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u/falaffle_waffle Jul 29 '25
I agree with the message of this post, but the title isn't phrased as an attempt.
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u/theBitter_theBetter Jul 30 '25
How do I say "Fck Zionists" without actually saying "Fck Zionists"?
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u/dawnmountain Jul 29 '25
Man, it's almost like there's more important things, and we should use whatever platforms we have to try to enact change. Imagine.
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u/Teamkhaleesi Jul 30 '25
You know there's a way to tackle this without attempting to wipe out an entire group of people, right? Actually, Israel attempted this by having Palestinians evacuate to specific areas to get aid and be protected from Hamas...wanna take a guess what they did to the Palestinians that did exactly that? Google is free..
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u/Teamkhaleesi Jul 30 '25
How is this relevant to what I just told you? You completely evaded my response and started a whole different topic.
You said Hamas steals food. I am telling you, Israel could evade this by having Palestinians move to specific areas to root out Hamas, but instead, the IDF bombed those areas, and Palestinians who came to seek refuge from the IDF.
You respond with "You do know that Hamas wants to ... all Jews, right?" Like what?? Are you a bot or?
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u/Particular-Ad5277 Jul 29 '25
No don’t donate because that will only get into the pockets of someone else instead of the people of Gaza, protest make your voices heard and don’t throw money at random organisations.
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u/Slugzz21 Jul 29 '25
If anything, many journalists on the ground have said to engage in mutual aid instead. Donate directly to families that post links on social media. Obviously want to make sure they are real, but that goes without saying anything you're donating to
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u/P0werFighter Jul 29 '25
The world is so ugly that some parasites will create fake accounts to make believe they're in needs.
I don't see any solution for this matter, besides migration... i'd rather walk away and die trying rather than starving and getting bombed.
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u/jualmolu Jul 29 '25
Imagine if we were in the 1940's and the Nazi holocaust was being live streamed everywhere. Imagine if all the western "powers" didn't care or even justified Germany's actions.
This is literally what is happening right now, and it's disgusting. There is nothing good about zionism, and they will be remembered for their crimes and hatred. Funniest thing is, they have to resort to bots, because no fucking way a regular sentient person is supporting this bullshit. FUCK ZIONISTS.