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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    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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      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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      seem unable to connect the dots

      They’re going to great effort not to connect those dots.

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

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      Wouldn’t the Israeli hostage being happy also be a point against Israel? Really there’s no way to spin this in their favor.

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        Only angle they can try is blame Hamas for it and hope that people are dumb enough to buy it. I think unfortunately a lot of people are dumb enough.

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

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      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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        Well, I’d say the current government doesn’t care. Israeli society at large wants them back at all costs, which is questionable itself when there’s so many dead Palestinians, but whatever.

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

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            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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              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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      I guess they are riding on the fact there’s famine and the captives are starving as well. Marketing done wrong if you ask me.