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Why are they killing those seeking aid? It's not a great look and causing serious concern.

Here's a bit more from the BBC:-

Deaths in Gaza

Earlier, we reported that dozens of people were shot dead while waiting for food close to the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza on Wednesday. The director of al-Shifa hospital now tells the BBC it received the bodies of 54 people killed.

The Israeli army said its soldiers fired "warning shots", not "directed at the gathering" in response to a "threat posed to them", and it was "not aware of any casualties" as a result of its fire.

1 posted on 07/31/2025 4:45:31 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan
Why are they killing those seeking aid?

Stop being so gullible. Hamas is lying through its teeth, as usual.

Hamas itself routinely steels the humanitarian aid, reserving it solely for its soldiers, denying that aid to the hungry civilians it is intended for. And it shoots those civilians who, notwithstanding, try to take the aid meant for them. It's how they maintain their power over the civilian population.

2 posted on 07/31/2025 4:59:46 AM PDT by TheConservator
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To: RandFan
"Ninety-one people have been killed while seeking aid in Gaza in the past day, the Hamas-run health ministry says."

Well, maybe Hamass should stop shooting the people waiting in line to get care. But, of course, those killed will receive the full allotment of virgins for their participation in the cause...

3 posted on 07/31/2025 5:05:16 AM PDT by unread
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To: RandFan

Anything coming from the “ Gaza Health Ministry” ….is pretty much scripted propo.


5 posted on 07/31/2025 5:20:59 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: RandFan; TheConservator
Dear RandFan,

I cannot believe that yo are so gullible that you believe the news from BBC. Here is a report on a similar incident from last month.

Inside the IDF “Aid Massacre” That Never Happened

Note what is said by Michael Nahum near the end of the video (minute 6:00 and onwards:

"It really is a fiction that Western media maintains a presence in Gaza. They do not."

6 posted on 07/31/2025 5:21:03 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: RandFan

It’s gotten to a point where I don’t believe either side and I’m not wasting the rest of my day trying to figure out who’s lying more than the other. After Oct. 7, both sides want to wipe the other from the face the Earth. Someday, Gaza will be a harbor off of the Mediterranean and any land within 100 miles will be extremely radioactive. Both sides will claim victory and blame the other for the next century.


7 posted on 07/31/2025 5:21:19 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: RandFan

Cool, your daily Pallywood propaganda.

No fake church burnings today? Slipping.


8 posted on 07/31/2025 5:34:26 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: RandFan

Let them all starve.

I don’t care.

L


12 posted on 07/31/2025 5:49:26 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: RandFan

Those IDF snipers again eh? I know, lets believe hamassholes are well meaning and would never lie or mislead. (Facitious)


13 posted on 07/31/2025 6:05:43 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: RandFan

Killed by who?

Hamas usually kills palestinians when they try to get at the aid hamass is stealing.


14 posted on 07/31/2025 6:10:54 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Angelino97’s 100% anti-Semitic lie: “Settlers tend to be ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with Uzis.”)
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To: RandFan

If the UK invokes Palestine as a free state....Hamas wins.


15 posted on 07/31/2025 6:13:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: All

NYT posts photo of ill child with claims of Gaza starvation, then publishes “retraction”


There is widespread hunger in Gaza, which has worsened
considerably in recent months due to Israel’s official policies.

There’s Catastrophic food insecurity: According to the IPC, the global standard for measuring food insecurity, 470,000 people are facing catastrophic hunger, with the entire population of 2.23 million facing high levels of acute food insecurity.

Starvation and malnutrition deaths escalate: The Palestinian Health Ministry reported 43 deaths due to hunger in the five days leading up to July 23, 2025. As of July 26, 2025, 127 Palestinians have died from malnutrition since the conflict began in October 2023, 85 of whom were children.

Children are particularly vulnerable: Over 1 million children in Gaza are at risk of starvation, according to the U.N. Palestinian agency, UNRWA. Acute malnutrition rates among children have more than doubled in recent months, with 9% of children under 5 now suffering from severe malnutrition.

Gaza Hospitals are overwhelmed: and are continued targets if Israeli bombings. Hospitals are overflowing with malnourished patients, reaching their “breaking point” with 94% damaged or destroyed due to the conflict. Doctors are reportedly fainting from hunger while trying to treat patients.

Israel’s military creating Dangerous conditions for aid seekers: Over 1,000 Palestinians have died trying to access food in recent weeks. Distribution sites, some controlled by the military, have become increasingly dangerous, with reports of shootings and stampedes resulting in mass casualties.

Aid restrictions and distribution challenges: International calls are growing for Israel to end the restrictions on aid distribution, which some experts allege violate international humanitarian law. Distribution is further hampered by security impediments and a breakdown in law and order. Israel maintains the restrictions are necessary to prevent Hamas from diverting aid.

The situation is dire, with many organizations describing it as a looming famine.

Israel denies the existence of starvation but witness accounts and data from humanitarian groups paint a grim picture of a population struggling for survival amidst severe food shortages, violence, and restricted access to aid.

Since Israel prevents the limited resumption of humanitarian assistance into Gaza on 19 May, the World Food Programme (WFP) has only been able to bring in small amounts of life-saving food.

A desperate humanitarian crisis what to Israel is allowing happen in Gaza. Children suffering from severe malnutrition as 470,000 people face mass starvation. The humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached crisis proportions...

Israel’s military “emphasizes that combat operations have not ceased” in Gaza against Hamas, and it has asserted there is “no starvation” in the territory.

Yet Gazans starve to death as aid agencies warn Israel’s threatened “airdrops” won’t alleviate crisis.


17 posted on 07/31/2025 7:20:49 AM PDT by Liz (')
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To: RandFan

It’s the BBC.


18 posted on 07/31/2025 7:25:13 AM PDT by Rappini ("In hoc Signo Vinces" In this sign, you shall conquer.)
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To: RandFan
Ninety-one people have been killed while seeking aid in Gaza in the past day, the Hamas-run health ministry says.

It's really sad that news networks in the modern era stoop so low as to use Hamas sources. Tagline still applies, maybe more than ever.

21 posted on 07/31/2025 8:26:30 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: RandFan

Right


22 posted on 07/31/2025 2:08:41 PM PDT by Words Matter
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