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The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born

By SAMY MAGDY and MARIAM DAGGA Updated 9:15 PM EDT, July 26, 2025

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A mother pressed a final kiss to what remained of her 5-month-old daughter and wept. Esraa Abu Halib’s baby now weighed less than when she was born.

On a sunny street in shattered Gaza, the bundle containing Zainab Abu Halib represented the latest death from starvation after 21 months of war and Israeli restrictions on aid.

The baby was brought to the pediatric department of Nasser Hospital on Friday. She was already dead. A worker at the morgue carefully removed her Mickey Mouse-printed shirt, pulling it over her sunken, open eyes. He pulled up the hems of her pants to show her knobby knees. His thumb was wider than her ankle. He could count the bones of her chest

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Death, death to the IDF.
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- Lets break the cycle of violence and killing to solve a conflict and start to de escalate wars with our mouths instead of more killing, plus they deserve lifelong torture in prison instead of a quick death. But thats a naive way to think about I guess and justice will never happen on this world
  
  How did we stop the Nazis again?
  
  This is the 200 IQ way. We need justice, not revenge.
  Prison. That's what they should get. That's not what they deserve to get. But what they should get. And then that should be that. The end.
We are fucking monsters for letting this happen, I literally cry everytime I open the news we are fucking monsters. Every single one of us.

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- You can't put this on me.
  I'm powerless to do anything meaningful to stop this, and you are too unless you're the president of the United States or a billionaire. At the very least, I didn't vote for the two ruling parties who made it all possible, but most can't say that. For 99% of voters, supporting genocide wasn't a red line.
- The problem in Gaza is not a lack of money; or even a lack of food. It is the regional superpower using its overwhelming military support to block food entry and distribution. While explicitly blocking all organizations with a history and track record of successful aid provisioning in challenging war zones. Then replacing it with their own potenkin aid agency as members of their senior leadership talk openly about using starvation as a weapon of war.
  Even in the most charitable reading, donations like this do nothing to help on net. Assuming it is not an outright scam, you are just giving this one family some of the limited supply of food in Gaza. That means that you are depriving someone else in Gaza that food; because you did not actually introduce more food; and, one way or another, that food was going to get eaten.
  Adding more money to the equation does help fund the gangs running the food black market. I don't mean to imply that such gangs are responsible for the crisis (they are not), or even that they are inherently bad (in a well run system, profit oriented local groups providing last mile distribution can be helpful). But, in this case, they are at best neutral.
  
  Is this link verified? Sorry I really really really want to donate but I dont know what is a scam and what is a true fundraiser anymore these days, or where the money actually ends up. I might just take the chance and donate anyway. Thank you so much!!! xx
  
  Donating to people within Gaza does nothing to solve the issue. It only drives up the price.
  Donate to independent journalists and comedians who cover the genocide instead.
And yet there's always money for bombs
To bad the world had no food to feed these kids for the last 5 months
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/
I hope this stain never washes off.
They say Israel has a right to defend itself.
Defend itself from what? From a child who might have a decent meal?
This is simply unacceptable.
- That sounds like anti-semitic talk to me.

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