We held a virtual encounter with Al-Farra and his patients this past Monday via a video call. In the past few weeks, we’ve sought to document what starvation looks like in Gaza, to witness the gravity of the situation with our own eyes. Israel doesn’t allow journalists into the Strip, but via video we’ve been able to conduct real-time, online tours of hospitals and clinics.

For this article we conducted four such tours, in different places, and conducted separate conversations with another 12 doctors, 10 of them volunteers from the United States and Britain, who are currently in the Gaza Strip or were there recently. What we saw there left no room for doubt about the scale of the horror.

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    4 days ago

    Imagine how this whole thing eventually becomes history. 30 years into the future all current elder leaders of the US are pretty much dead or nearing death. All named I’m history books as asshole Nazis resulting in worse death counts than the original Holocaust. I’m pointing this out because I just gotta try. Literally I could be murdered to shut me up but the result won’t change. What’s done is done. Orange turd is going to get whatever the opposite of a world peace price is.

    The only effect is ruining all our futures. Another bump in the road. No one ever remembers kings or Queens. Anyone remember what tlalalook or ketzahuatlmok price of the great Aztec whatever? Nah. No names. But 100 years from now there won’t be a single descendant of the current leadership due to natural selection. Women just don’t want to have sex with asshole racists. All their racism will have been for nothing. Everyone knows that the world’s population will be older and decreasing and we’ll just be more diversity in actual births.

    It would be nice if they all ate a peanut and choked but there’s no god doing anything about this. So it won’t happen. Its more likely that they come out as full nazi and televise our visit to the incinerators. We non pure racists will be burnt alive in American concentration camps. That’s our depressive future. But what comes next after liberation is a new wave of human freedom. For now I’m just going to try to enjoy my remaining freedoms until the day I get to scratch my name on the incinerator wall.

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      4 days ago

      If only the colonists would just leave Palestine and go back to Ukraine and Long Island.

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        Yes that would stop it too. But there’s not much likelihood of that. Whereas Hamas is clearly not having any success, and prolonging this war is only causing such terrible misery. And yes that’s because the Israelis don’t care about the misery of the people of Gaza, they only care about defeating Hamas. There’s a lot of evil. But if Hanas fully surrendered, this would stop immediately. And they have nothing to gain by keeping us going.

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          You’ve fallen for Zionist propaganda. You have to read what they say in Hebrew, not English.

          They are quite explicit that they want everyone in Gaza gone, a lot of them want them all dead. Hamas and the hostages is just the cover story for Western corporate media to gaslight the public.

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      If only you’d do the right thing and just eat a huge tub of razor blades and human fecez

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      If only israel end occupation, allow palestinians to have an army to combat hamas if they refuse to drop arms

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      why would they? It is a project by Netanyahu’s government to control the region and they seem to be doing their job well even now. Governments don’t kickstart organizations like this without having some moles in their high up rankings.

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        BS. Netanyahu may have encouraged Hamas at some point , but they only continue because they want to hurt Israel and they don’t care about the starving children in Gaza any more than Israel does. Look on these message boards; many people refuse to put any blame on Hamas. Just me suggesting Hamas should surrender evokes responses only about how Isreal is responsible. It seems that the supporters of Gaza don’t want Hamas to surrender - they say they don’t like children starving, but seemingly not so much that they’d like Hamas to surrender. It’s really strange when you think about it.

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          Classic bait. It’s a straw man to compare militia action to political messaging. We already know the IDF are 50x worse than Hamas.

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            I think communication and general moral consensus matters. If people voiced their dislike and contempt for Hamas half as much as they do for Israel, it could have the effect of diminishing Hamas’ purpose for continuing this war.
            But I think a lot of commenters actually support Hamas, and the violence it keeps doing. But they won’t actually admit that. So it makes it hard to understand.

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              Israel only obligation to get the hell out of palestine, you genocide supporter

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                You’re a genocide supporter then. Hamas wants to genocide Israel. And you are supporting Hamas.
                I don’t support Israel’s actions in Gaza.
                I was just pointing out that by calling it an occupation, then an occupying force has the responsibility of providing safety and stability to the occupied lands. And Hamas, in that context, would be a barrier to that.

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                  I don’t support Israel’s actions in Gaza

                  Do you mean the genocide and Israeli terrorism?

                  Hamas wants to genocide Israel

                  The only genocide supporter is you, Israel is the one doing a genocide right now. Even after a century a free Palestine would never be able to commit any genocide . Hamas said they will drop arms once occupation end. Even if they lie , Israel could easily reoccupy.

                  I only defend resistance against the occupying force the IDF, i never supported hamas killing innocent civilians.

                  You are the type of people who would have sided with slave owner and Nate turner killed kids during his revolt and talk about how Nate was the reason why slavery persisted. You would have sided with France and Britain and called Algerian and Indian resistance the reason why occupation lasted that long

                  I was just pointing out that by calling it an occupation, then an occupying force has the responsibility of providing safety and stability to the occupied lands.

                  No, Israel as a settler colonial power should get the hell out of Palestine . Hamas is not the barrier it was always Zionists and Israel. Some Arab proposed a one state for the beginning Zionists refused. Zionists leaders admitted that they always want the whole land. Israel decided to occupy Gaza and west bank in 67 nobody forced them to. The Oslo accords was PLO recognizing Israel and stop attacking it in exchange of end of occupation. What Israel did was the build illegal settlements making a two state hard if not impossible.

                  You Zionazis should go back to reddit because your stupid disgusting propaganda will never work

                  after the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine - Ben Gurion

                  The Egyptian Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him. -  Menachem Begin

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          Oh I will never support a terrorist organization, so fuck hamas. But Israel state is by far the greater terrorist organization at this point. And no one buys the rhetoric that war goes on because of Hamas. How many times has Israel already killed the critical leaders of Hamas? And yet they still continue to terrorize and ethnically cleanse people of Gaza because of a terrorist organisation whose key leadership they have killed multiple times? That is what I call bs. This war is just a casus belli for the Netanyahu’s government to stay in power so he has no intention of letting it end before he gets all its spoils. And apparently about 70 to 80 percent of Israeli people unfortunately share his views. It is insane how delusional it is to expect respect and peaceful reactions from your neighbours when all you do is spread hate and fear towards them.

          And this is not the only example of deep state planting moles in terrorist organizations, be it to know in advance what they will do or to steer them towards actions which you think is beneficial to keep an oppressive government in place.