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The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born (apnews.com)
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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.

The girl had weighed over 3 kilograms (6.6 pounds) when she was born, her mother said. When she died, she weighed less than 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds).

A doctor said it was a case of “severe, severe starvation.”

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[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

there is incredible amount of human suffering. it is weird to he asking that question amongst all of that suffering. What are you suggesting they do if they become pregnant and all hospitals are filled with bombed people? What would you do in that situation? How would you seek your abortion that is the objectively morally correct choice according to you?

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Don't Become Pregnant.

[-] PeacefulForest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I mean rape still exists, and sure it does there a whole lot.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago

That's a fair point

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

i.e. comply with the genocide

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Do you think they can reproduce faster than they're being killed? They can defeat lsraeI by fucking? In a land that doesn't even have drinking water?

I don't think some of you grasp how devastated it currently is over there.

And to clarify again, I'm not talking about all of PaIestine. I'm talking about Ga2a.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

I think Palestinian parents are not to blame for Israel being a baby killing ethnostate that's trying to exterminate them.

You are literally advocating for compliance with genocide. Palestinians giving up on life and ceasing reproduction is Israel's goal.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think Palestinian parents are not to blame for Israel being a baby killing ethnostate that's trying to exterminate them.

Agreed.

I think there is still hope for the country. I never said otherwise. I never said PaIestine should comply. I never said the people of PaIastine are to blame for anything. People are projecting nonsense between my words and I'm exhausted with the lack of reading comprehension here, so this will be my last comment in this thread. I see now why .ml has the reputation that it does. I will see myself out.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile, I continue to see why I'm on ML and not one of your Redditeur instances.

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

you are an idiot

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

I don't want to see any more children born into a short life of suffering. I don't see how that's unempathetic.

[-] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Then do everything you can to stop the violent settler colonial state from continuing that suffering instead of victim blaming

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