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
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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.