The 10-Year-Old Boy Who Has Become the Face of Starvation in Gaza

[Lonestarblue]

The photo at the top of this article of a starved child is what Israel is turning innocent Gazans into, not because they are eradicating Hamas but because they are eradicating as many Palestinians as possible. This war is shameful and has not served any purpose for months. Israel has retaliated beyond reason for October 7. Israelis are now doing to Palestinians what was done to them in WWII. Genocide by starvation is still genocide.

“ It is all too easy to trace the skull beneath the Gazan boy’s face, the pallid skin stretching tight over every curve of bone and sagging with every hollow. His chin juts with a disturbing sharpness. His flesh has shrunk and shriveled, life reduced to little more than a thin mask over an imminent death.

In one of a series of news photographs of the boy, Yazan Kafarneh, taken with his family’s permission as he struggled for his life, his long-lashed eyes stare out, unfocused. In that widely shared picture online, his right hand, bandaged over an intravenous line, contracts in on itself at an awkward angle, a visible marker of his cerebral palsy.

He was 10, but in photographs from his last days at a clinic in southern Gaza, he looks both small for his age and at the same time ancient. By Monday, Yazan was dead.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/world/middleeast/yazan-kafarneh-gaza-starvation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU0.sObf.Ss_IKoF_27KX&smid=url-share

[Goddessartist]

1. These poor, terrorized people

dying under the deranged psychopathy of Israel's vengeful assault on innocent civilians. This is intentional. The Israeli protesters that block food to starving Gazans take joy in them dying.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. This carnage is on Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to level Gaza and its people to break Hamas.

Was it any wonder why so many Americans turned away from the Vietnam War? The deforestation plan using Agent Orange did little to break the resolve of the North Vietnamese. Carpet bombing the country had not much affect.

It is up to Joe to basically tell Netanyahu through diplomatic channels, that the US cannot stand along side and support this. Call for a Ceasefire, negotiate in good faith for peace, deal with the Gaza strip, and call for a 2 state-solution. (I know, easier said than done.) For Israel is already being held in contempt by other world Leaders for their continuing barbarous acts.

[Voltaire2]

3. The picture is devastating. Horrifying.

[David__77]

4. The US has shipped the weapons and providing the diplomatic support to facilitate the campaign.

Israel’s campaign is aimed at depopulation.

[Emile]

5. What a horrible way to die.