In Gaza, where nearly half of the population is under 18, a children's rights crisis is unfolding
In Gaza, where nearly half of the population is under 18, a children's rights crisis is unfolding
Gaza has a population of 2+ million and HALF those are under 18? What? That's a crazy statistic.
That's what war and siege does. People lose children a lot so they have more children.
This is what it means to live in Gaza:
0–14 years: 44.1% (male 415,746/female 394,195)
15–24 years: 21.3% (male 197,797/female 194,112)
25–54 years: 28.5% (male 256,103/female 267,285)
55–64 years: 3.5% (male 33,413/female 30,592)'
65 years and over: 2.6% (male 24,863/female 22,607) (2018 est.)
Edit: source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_State_of_Palestine
Maybe I don't know, don't bring more people into the world if they live on a literal battlefield? I don't even want to bring kids into america right now. I can't imagine how selfish one would have to be to bring a child into a warzone where their life expectancy is half the norm and they will suffer the entire time.
Well yea, every area that suffers long wars suffers from that. In Niger 50% of the population is under 15. I saw so many kids looking for work it hurt my soul.
Poverty in the US is a solvable joke by comparison.
And those kids will grow up hateful and resentful of Israel, which will make it easy to mold them into the sort of people who commit the atrocities Hamas committed. Israel is creating their own future problem.
Yes. Even if Israel "eradicates" Hamas, the idea is still there, and with the trauma that these adults and children have gone through would probably take decades to heal, and even then many won't heal at all and become extremists.
Israel is creating their own future problem.
Which monsters like Netanyahu love. More excuse for genocide and conquest.
Kids in Germany in the 40s experienced bombing, and went on to form the European community with countries that were responsible for said bombing and acknowledged their country was in the wrong for voting in the Nazis. Why can't Palestinian kids have the same emotional realisation?
Because Germany didn't then exist under decades of apartheid where they were denied basic services just due to the accident of their birth. Even East Germans had it far, far better than Gazans.
Adding onto the other poster's comment, another reason is because the US will never pour unlimited money and resources into these people making sure they do.
Europe didn't pull itself up by its own bootstraps after WWII.
Why can’t Palestinian kids have the same emotional realisation?
75 years of collective trauma
Who would have thought that cutting energy and infrastructure along with limiting food supplies would cause a humatrian crisis in a densely populated camp....
Just yesterday fake news said, Gaza residents deserve it and Israel has every right to do it.
We are so worried about AI destroying us, yet here we are bombing children on both sides. We are the problem.
The Palestinians I've met who moved to Canada, were surprised that I didn't have horns as a Jewish person. Some less funny stereotypes too but that one was.... surprising given the physical proximity of Gaza to Jewish settlements.
I've made some friends with people who came from there, and once they're comfortable with opening up, what they say about the education over there makes perfect sense as to why the hate continues.
When you're teaching kindergarten kids to stab or drive over Jews, not Israelis, Jews there's not much hope for you to NOT be a terrorist.
The UN needs to do a better job of deradicalizing the education system over there, how that happens is way beyond my understanding.
I'm not saying Israelis can't be assholes, but I'm absolutely positive they're not teaching that hate in their education system.
but I’m absolutely positive they’re not teaching that hate in their education system.
I don't know about that, but I know they do it in the army: https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2010/aug/17/israel-palestinian-territories
If Israeli authorities taught Israelis that Palestinians are not sub-human, you would not have all these Israeli Palestinians now being fired from their jobs, and you would not have these shitty photos from that Guardian article, in which this is described as "widespread".
Dehumanizing Palestinians is Israel's first and foremost tool... without it, you cannot make people commit atrocities. Jews were also dehumanized during the holocaust to reach the same result of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
If anything can distract Oprah from the land of Maui this may be it. /s?
Honestly disgusting how the media overlooks this. No idea what these children have ever done. Irrespective of what side you support this is genocide and this should not be tolerated.
"noooo these children voted for Hamas they deserve every bit of suffering they get"
Fucking assholes.
These children can’t have voted for hamas. The last election in Palestine was in 2006.
Crazy how people acc think like this
Children didn't vote for the Nazis in the 1930s either but they still died when we bombed German cities. Children die in wars, it's an unfortunate fact, and Hamas just declared war on their neighbours.
This was the top story on NPR's up first podcast today. They didn't exactly blame Isreal directly, but they also didnt defend Israel and suggest this is somehow justified. They stuck pretty close to here is what is happening on the ground, here's voices of those affected, this is a humanitarian tragedy and will only get worse. They mentioned a woman in Gaza rationing milk for her baby due to the food shortage, that stuck with me. So I guess #notallmedia.
The coverage on the NYT The Daily podcast was spot on what I would expect from the outlet that cheared us into invading Iraq. Trash podcast, I don't know why I'm still subscribed. Should have dumped it after they spent a whole episode making a martyr out of the praying football coach.
NPR's coverage has been very good so far. They are trying their best to remain impartial in a difficult situation where there is a humanitarian crisis. I think it's the right thing to do. The media doesn't need to point fingers at Israel when they can just report the facts and people can see where the blame lies.
Washington Post and Voxx have had a really good article as well, as well as a podcast about it on there today I learned show.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/09/israel-hamas-attack-gaza-intelligence/
https://www.vox.com/23910085/netanyahu-israel-right-hamas-gaza-war-history
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL3RvZGF5LWV4cGxhaW5lZA/episode/Y2M5NDJiM2UtMzM5Zi0xMWVkLTkyNTAtNzM4YWZiNzhkYzM3?ep=14
Also, this is crazy:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-11/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-needed-a-strong-hamas/0000018b-1e9f-d47b-a7fb-bfdfd8f30000
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
Was Pravda ever telling the truth?
Imma save this comment as an example of the word "capitalism" being used as a weird boogeyman by lemmies, such a joke lmao