Aid agencies are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as doctors warn an Israeli blockade on fuel means many more vulnerable babies and wounded people in hospitals will soon die. One agency says at least 2,000 children in Gaza have been killed in the past few weeks.

Inside Gaza, cut off from the world by a near total blockade, Israeli airstrikes have decimated entire neighborhoods, leveling homes, schools and mosques. CNN drone footage from Monday showed the level of destruction across parts of the strip, with whole streets flattened in the al-Rimal neighborhood in Gaza City and a row of destroyed buildings known as al-Zahra towers in central Gaza.

Save the Children said Monday that over 1 million children are “trapped” in Gaza with no safe place to go and warned of the devastating impacts of lacking medication and electricity to power vital health infrastructure in the enclave.

“At least 2,000 children have been killed in Gaza over the past 17 days, and a further 27 killed in the West Bank,” the aid agency said on Monday.

“We call on all parties to take immediate steps to protect the lives of children, and on the international community to support those efforts,” Save the Children said, adding that Israeli airstrikes are “killing and injuring children indiscriminately.”

  • superguy@lemm.ee
    176·
    1 year ago

    Are they brown? Yes.

    Are they white? No.

    Go to reddit and you’ll see the modern JIDF in full force. They’re actually claiming and having top-voted comments (>1000 upvotes) where they say all Gazans are terrorists.

    • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 year ago

      I’ve seen some of the discussion on there and it makes me feel sick. People talk about Gazan children as if they aren’t humans.

      • rivermonster@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        1 year ago

        People do that across this conflict since it became trendy again to focus on, on the 7th. There’s people on both sides ignoring the civilian tolls and dismissing them for one reason or another. The amount of “this was horrible… BUT” both there and here on Lemmy is deeply disturbing, and stomach churning.

    • rivermonster@sh.itjust.works
      52·
      1 year ago

      This holy shit yes. Reddit is a clusterfuck. I hold Netanyahu and Gaza’s elected representatives, Hamas, both accountable. I deeply condemn both of their past, present, and future war crimes. I am so old enough to know that Netanyahu and Hamas have always been partners.

      But more importantly, although we may disagree on the conflict, we do NOT disagree that Reddit is a clusterfuck disaster. I fight the pro Hamas propaganda here on Lemmy because I still care about Lemmy. I happily soak up the downvotes from all these kids who have no knowledge of the conflict snd the anti-semites both.

      But the pro Netanyahu/hardliners shit on reddit is fucking pointless to fight it’s a shitshow and nobody should look to Reddit for anything on this conflict. For this conflict I just consider it an illegitimate news source completely.