David Miliband: Gaza famine a ‘failure of humanity’



After months of unrelenting war, people in Gaza are dying of starvation, and famine is projected to officially be declared in Gaza as soon as May, according to a UN-backed assessment released this week. Without immediate intervention, UN estimates warn that Gaza could witness over 200 deaths per day, solely due to hunger. Many aid workers say that famine is already taking hold and stress the need for immediate and substantial aid. “The first, second, and third best options are to use the land routes,” Miliband says. “An aid drop on a beach is a recipe for chaos.”

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44 thoughts on “David Miliband: Gaza famine a ‘failure of humanity’”

  1. Hamas must be held responsible for what is happening in Gaza. The world failed to condemn Hamas but instead attacked Israel for defending their citizens. This disaster could have been avoided. Even now as we are talking this conflict can be solved. Hamas must surrender and release all hostages. Otherwise all these talks are just bla bla bla

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  2. The number of people in the comments who are making insane causal attributions is a little disturbing. A) Sine qua non causation is dependent on proximity. For instance, you can say that someone killed someone else because had they not shot them they would almost certainly be alive, you cannot however say that someone would have not have murdered someone else had their mother not met their father. It's technically true, but morally meaningless, there are a near limitless number of events that, had they not happened would have prevented present events, for instance if Israel had not occupied most of Palestine the attack would not have happened. B) You can't cherrypick causal start-points. You cannot claim that this is all because of Hamas and Israel bears no blame because of October 7th, because that's ignoring a century of continuous history and choosing to say it started with that attack. C) You cannot rob any party of moral agency by reference to a provocation. Again, if you want to say Israel bears no fault because it was attacked, you could just as easily say that Hamas bears no fault due to the litany of things Israel has done to the Palestinians. Indeed, you would be stuck having to say that they'd be justified in attacking because of what is going on right now.

    So to sum up: There is no single cause that is relevant, you can't pretend history doesn't exist, and you don't get to blame one party and exonerate the other. Everyone has moral agency, or noone does. Deterministically, in a sense, noone does, but if we want to have a world where we hold people to account, everyone has to be.

    P.S. If you have no actual knowledge of the hundred years of history involved, maybe try to learn a bit more about it.

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  3. ,MSNBC has been such a silent and weak voice and presence on these unlawful actions for the past six months! Providing no leadership, no trust and no moral values in the guidance of OUR country. ( every step of the way!)

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  4. Velshi, please dont say that Israel hasnt got a hand in Gaza from 2007 because they cut the water whenever they feel like, and they do military incursions dragging children from their beds to hold them without charges in jail for years whenever they want to. Palestine needs their own state. Would you say that South Africans in times of apartheid didnt have any basic rights? Biden wants to put a resolution in front of international council, include genocide in the terms or the Palestinians go right where they started to having no rights in exchange of two stale sandwiches. Jared Kushner is already wanting to build in Gaza "once the people are gone", is that wha5 the port is for? To finish deporting this poor people your government keeps on bailing out? Who governs the States, Biden, Trump or Israel?

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  5. It's a failure of AIPAC infested politicians and a corrupt and biased press. It's because we have a self-proclaimed Zionist war monger as a president
    If MSNBC and MSM had done their job…it could all have been prevented. But they fed us Israeli propaganda and reported atrocities rarely.. Our government does not change course without public pressure. That only happens when the media reports the truth. It's not like no one warned you months ago. But you didn't report it. You waited for enough people to die. Shameful. I will never forgive MSNBC. Blood on your hands "Morning Joe"!

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  6. Allowing the Judaic statehood to steal land from the palestinians in the west bank, is a failure of international coalition on law. Ever since 1967 the Judaic statehood has become emboldend to do anything it wants and the world just watches while the western democrascies gives aid and supports the lawlessness of the rouge state.

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  7. Too bad there is noone to blame except Israel and thats that anyone who does not see that is truly lost. I wonder if this has anything to do with the red heifers being sacrificed does it lol

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  8. You can thank Biden and his administration for this. Even though we know this is a Democrat sham, this isn't true, trying to get more money. Biden and his administration funded this through Iran. MSNBC shame on you

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  9. All the Hamas leaders were funded &given sanctuaries countries like Qatar
    Why can’t all these Islamic countries help Gaza with humanitarian aid & also countries like Jordan & Egypt can take in refugees from Gaza
    They will not take them because they had the worst experiences with palastenian refugees in the past
    Go by the History

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  10. This genocide was engineered and manufactured by Israel's apartheid regime, and enabled by its co-conspirator the United States Government. End the occupation! Stop the genocide! Free Palestine!

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  11. you probably think October 7th was unprovoked. educate yourself about the conflict and the 75+ years of Israeli brutality, colonialism, occupation, genocide, and war crimes before you say things that would embarrass and being shame to even the most backwards and most ignorant ones amongst us

    “1- Haifa Massacre 1937 2. Jerusalem Massacre 1937 3. Haifa Massacre 1938 4. Balad al-Sheikh Massacre 1939 5. Haifa Massacre 1939 6. Haifa Massacre 1947 7. Abbasiya Massacre 1947 8. Al-Khisas Massacre 1947 9. Bab al-Amud Massacre 1947 10. Jerusalem Massacre 1947 11. Sheikh Bureik Massacre 1947 12. Jaffa Massacre 1948 13. Deir Yassin Massacre – 1948 14. Qibya massacre -1953 15.Tantura Massacre – 1948 16. qibya massacre -1953 17. Khan Yunis Massacre 1956 18. Jerusalem Massacre 1967 19. Bahro Al Baquar in 1972 20. Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982 21. Al-Aqsa Massacre 1990 22. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 1994 23. Jenin Refugee Camp April 2002 24. Gaza Massacre 12008-09 25. Gaza Massacre 2012 26. Gaza Massacre 2014 27. Gaza Massacre 2018-19 28. Gaza Massacre 2021 29. Gaza Genocide 2023 is still ongoing. SO DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU IT STARTED ON OCTOBER 7th OVER 75 YEARS OF PALESTINIAN OPPRESSION PLEASE REPOST

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