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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36142552

By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 12 September 2025 19:49 BST

Van Hollen of Maryland and Merkley of Oregon produced the report after a week-long visit to Israel, the occupied West Bank, the Rafah border with Gaza, Jordan and Egypt at the end of August. The damning 21-page report is titled, "The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians. America is Complicit. The World Must Stop It."

The report observed that overwhelming evidence shows “Israel is…implementing a plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians and dealing a death blow to the vision of a future Palestinian state”.

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[–] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh trust me. I know. But something has to give. I need it to for our own personal lives. I have a personal connection to Gaza. I need something, anything, to give. Even just a trickle more of aid is something. Everyone is sick and there’s no steady clean water and no food. I can’t do anything when there’s nothing there physically. They’re bones and fighting infection. Everyone is already so so weak and everyone is dehydrated and ill. Calories. Just calories. Two kids were hospitalized last week. None of the adults are eating. Watching someone lose weight day by day is only something I ever dealt with with cancer patients. Not healthy adults. They’re dipping into the realm of they’re going to need extensive treatment to recover. But anything is better than nothing. We just need something hearts are going to start giving out soon and I can’t. I just can’t.

I don’t need politicians absolved. I need hope. And we need food.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. And the only one that could make that happen is the US government. But since they have evidence of politicians and business leaders fucking underage girls and whatever else there is apparently nothing that would cause them to put the brakes on Israel.

The leak of all the Epstein info there being blackmailed with is about the only thing that may help at this point.

Starvation and disease are going to cause more deaths than anything, and they're not even counted in the bullshit figures that they still disputes and claim our lower. Wish there was something I could do to help.

[–] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

Continuous pressure on power and hope. I don’t have the luxury of cynicism or apathy.