Ofir Braslavski watched as his emaciated son, Rom, writhed in anguish on a dirty mattress somewhere inside the Gaza Strip, in video footage released by Palestinian militants in recent days showing the agony of Israeli hostages.

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[–] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There were 400 UNRWA locations supplying aid in Gaza before this genocide. Now there are none because Israel kicked out the UN and is deliberately withholding all food - as they explicitly said they would do in October 2023 (and repeatedly ever since). That's why this guy, along with millions of Palestinians, is starving to death.

Zionists, and their Western corporate media puppets, seem unable to connect the dots.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    News agencies where I live have connected the dots. The AP has also connected the dots in this article.

    In Israel, it's politically incorrect to cover what's happening to civilians in Gaza, so it seems people are unironically shocked to see a walking skeleton.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago*

    Fuck the IDF

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    My heart weeps for all the victims of the Israeli apartheid regime's famine policy in Gaza.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    idk I read Grok say it was a fake and the kid was happy

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  • He is a POW not a hostage.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Are you sure you're in the right thread?

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Not sure what to gain from recording such video beside loosing public opinion..

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The message is "they eat what we eat". If Israel starves Palestine, they starve the hostages.

    Not that Israel cares. They've already killed a bunch of the hostages themselves. Saving them was never the goal.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The other way around. "See? Your starvation campaign is affecting them too" is the point, and it's working. From the article:

    The videos led tens of thousands of Israelis to take to the streets on Saturday night and demand a ceasefire deal, in one of the largest turnouts for the weekly protests in recent months.

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    "See, we are as bad as them !" Is not a marketing strategy I would recommend neither

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What marketing strategy would you recommend?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Netanyahu is loosing support and look like the bad guy, so not competing with him on being the worst human being would be a good start

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    It's "losing", FYI. Loosing would be, like, untying a guard dog to go after someone.

    Just not releasing anything would have been an option. Islamic Jihad might not have a good read on the Israeli discourse, though, and "show that we literally have no food to give the hostages" would have been smart when dealing with a government that at least cares about their own people.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago

    I feel for this guy, but also I have to say: Good play by PIJ.

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    [–] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah, starving people is bad.

    But apparently only if it's Israelis.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You beat me to it. Pretty clear to those people that there's a difference between starving kids and this starving dude.

    I bet it's what name the kids' parents give to their imaginary friend. Seems kind of minor to me...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I don't have a lot of sympathy for IOF soldiers.

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