This is getting truly horrific, as if it wasn’t before. Starving people to death and then shooting them when they go to get food 
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and:
UK foreign secretary ‘sickened, appalled’ by scenes in Gaza
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Lammy says he is appalled and sickened by civilian deaths in Gaza
David Lammy has been doing the government’s media round this morning - and spoke to BBC Breakfast and Radio 4’s Today programme along the way.
Asked on BBC Breakfast how he feels when he sees images of the scenes in Gaza, Lammy says: “I feel the same as the British public: appalled, sickened.”
“These are not words that are usually used by a foreign secretary who is attempting to be diplomatic, but when you see innocent children holding out their hand for food, and you see them shot and killed in the way that we have seen in the last few days, of course Britain must call it out,” he says.
He goes on to say that the UK “must get on the phone and we must urge Israel to think again”, and that the government “will continue to pressure, we will continue to act”.
Earlier in the interview, Lammy was asked if he had spoken to Israel’s government since it released a statement, responding to the UK and more than 20 other countries accusing Israel of “drip feeding” aid into Gaza. He said he hadn’t - but that he had spoken to the Israeli foreign minister beforehand.
Gaza is ‘hell on earth’ with doctors fainting from hunger, UN warns, as 1,000 estimated to have been killed seeking food
The head of the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency said on Tuesday that its staff members as well as doctors and humanitarian workers are fainting on duty due to hunger and exhaustion, Reuters reports.
Unrwa commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement, shared by his spokesperson at a press briefing in Geneva:
Caretakers, including UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, are also in need of care now, doctors, nurses, journalists, humanitarians, among them, UNRWA staff are hungry. Many are now fainting due to hunger and exhaustion while performing their duties.
Lazzarini described the situation in Gaza as “hell on earth”, adding that nowhere was safe.
The Unrwa estimates that 1,000 starving people have been reported killed while seeking food aid since the end of May.
After talks to extend a six-week ceasefire broke down, Israel imposed a full blockade on Gaza on 2 March, allowing nothing in until trucks were again permitted at a trickle in late May.
In a post on X on Monday, Unrwa said that shortages in the Palestinian territory had caused food prices to increase by 40 times, while the aid stockpiled in its warehouses outside Gaza could feed “the entire population for over three months.”
Palestinians carry aid supplies after trucks loaded with aid entered from Israel through central Gaza, in Gaza City on 22 July 2025. Photograph: Khamis Al-Rifi/Reuters
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Israel is facing mounting international pressure over the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territory, where more than 2 million people face severe shortages of food and other essentials after 21 months of conflict, triggered by Hamas’s attack on Israel.
The UN said on Tuesday that Israeli forces had killed more than 1,000 Palestinians trying to get food aid since the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation started operations in late May – in effect sidelining the existing UN-led system.
A statement with 111 signatories, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Save the Children and Oxfam, warned that “our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away”.
The groups called for an immediate negotiated ceasefire, the opening of all land crossings and the free flow of aid through UN-led mechanisms.
Israel says humanitarian aid is being allowed into Gaza and accuses Hamas of exploiting civilian suffering, including by stealing food handouts to sell at inflated prices or shooting at those awaiting aid.
In their statement, the humanitarian organisations said that warehouses with tonnes of supplies were sitting untouched just outside the territory, and even inside, as they were blocked from accessing or delivering the goods.
The signatories said:
Palestinians are trapped in a cycle of hope and heartbreak, waiting for assistance and ceasefires, only to wake up to worsening conditions.
It is not just physical torment, but psychological. Survival is dangled like a mirage.
The humanitarian system cannot run on false promises. Humanitarians cannot operate on shifting timelines or wait for political commitments that fail to deliver access.
Reading the above report from humanitarian agencies, and looking at the picture beneath, the number of victims who are now dead must be tenfold as we speak, compared with the official number of 60k. If it isn’t yet, then it’s only a matter of a short time now… I know, I’m venting a lot on here since some time, but this is unbearable to be honest. 
Edit, from the bbc website:
We’re seeing a level of death and destruction ‘without parallel’ in Gaza - UN head
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UN Secretary General António Guterres has warned that “failures to uphold international obligations are coming at a time of widening geopolitical divides and conflicts”.
“And the cost is staggering - measured in human lives, shattered communities, and lost futures,” he told the Security Council yesterday.
"We need look no further than the horror show in Gaza - with a level of death and destruction without parallel in recent times. Malnourishment is soaring. Starvation is knocking on every door.
"And now we are seeing the last gasp of a humanitarian system built on humanitarian principles. That system is being denied the conditions to function. Denied the space to deliver. Denied the safety to save lives.
“With Israeli military operations intensifying and new displacement orders issued in Deir al-Balah, devastation is being layered upon devastation,” the UN head said.
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Stop fucking talking and do something about it!
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The UN is paralysed and can’t do much apart from pointing out the facts, which is already something.
Unfortunately , the USA do everything to keep the UN in that state, and if they could, they’d muzzle the UN. Look at how they treat Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur for Israel. A courageous, frank and dignified woman, calling a spade a spade, and they treat her as if she was a vulgar criminal.
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‘We’re not close to famine, we’re living it’, doctor in Gaza says
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A doctor in Gaza working with a UK medical charity says people are now experiencing “famine”.
“No matter how I tell you all day long, I won’t be able to describe to you the suffering of people. They are tired. They are fed up of the current situation,” Dr Aseel tells the BBC.
“We have come to a disastrous situation. It’s not that we are close to famine, we are living it.”
“My husband went once [to an aid distribution point] and twice and then got shot and that was it,” she says.
"If we are to die from hunger, let it be. The path to aid is the path to death. It’s a treacherous road. It’s a one-way ticket in some cases.
“I see the injured people who come to the hospital in big numbers. We sometimes receive up to 50 injured a day. During the day, we don’t have any time to close our eyes and have some rest or even drink a cup of tea, if there’s any sugar.”
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President Macron
Although I do find the irony of Netanyahu saying that giving Palestine statehood awards terrorism when it was Israeli terrorists inbetween the 20’s and 40’s that forced the recognistion of Israeli statehood.
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One of my uncles was stationed in Palestine in the 1940s. He had some really choice words when Menachem Begin won a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Macron is an antisemite. Surely.
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Oh shit, I’ve just critisised Israel, so I guess I’m now an antisemite as well 
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This whole thread is obviously antisemite.
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I noticed this story online:
This is where accusations of antisemitism for calling out an alleged war criminal gets you: real Jewish people who have nothing to do with Israel, let alone Netanyahu or the IDF, are discriminated against.
I’m not going to call this as antisemitism, because I think the staff’s fears are genuine and possibly justified. But this does demonstrate as to how the constant cry-wolf accusations of antisemitism can affect innocent people and create actual antisemitism as Jewish people are viewed as a monolith to be feared.
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and at the same time:
The arrogance and moral corruption of these people is breathtaking.
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Ezra Klein had a piece this week that referenced what today is a common argument that anti semitism needs to be defined not on the actions/intentions, but based on the outcome it produces for Jews. E.g. globalize the antifada might not be an explicitly anti semitic phrase, but due to the way some people use it and the impact that has on Jews it should be considered anti semitic. Its giving anti semitism the “critical theory” treatment. He raised it because you dont have to travel very far to say if this if your framework then Netenyahu himself is anti semitic
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I suspect that it’s a case of all Jews being tarred with the same brush, in the way that all Muslims were portrait as Terrorists after 9/11 or all Catholics were portrayed as pub bombers in the 1970s.
Terrible, and yet essential testimonies and scenes, in a video which is embedded in the article.
And:
Look at the end, how the police deals with the protestors.
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finding it very difficult to watch the news reports on what’s happening in the Gaza strip these last few days,
seeing those poor innocent kids/babies, there just skin and bones now,
lifeless, just waiting to die
its harrowing to see, i just want to pick them up and give them a cuddle and tell them it’ll be ok,
i just dont understand how the Israeli Government can carry out these atrocities, specially after what happened during WW2,
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Moral licensing. Israel are so firmly defined as the good guys, and the Palestinians, through the PLO to Hamas and even Hezbollah, the bad guys. It means when a bad story is put out there the reflex of the mainstream is to say it isnt true because Israel are the good guys and the good guys dont do that (e.g. bomb hospitals) therefore it cannot be true. Or when the truth cannot be denied, the ends justify the means because look at who they are up against. And any bad that befalls the Palestinians is waved away as being what happens to people who are best terrorist adjacent.
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