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erodriguez

(911 posts)
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 11:39 PM Jul 2025

Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life's essentials now a deadly peril

Source: The Guardian

The siblings were waiting beside a water distribution station, holding jerry cans and buckets, when it was bombed last Sunday, killing six children and four adults and injuring 19 others, mostly children.

Both Lulu and Karam died instantly, torn apart by the force of the blast and so disfigured that their father prevented Heba from seeing their bodies.

Read more: Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/19/killing-of-young-siblings-at-gaza-water-point-shows-seeking-lifes-essentials-now-a-deadly-peril?CMP=share_btn_url



Children! These are children!

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Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life's essentials now a deadly peril (Original Post) erodriguez Jul 2025 OP
This is horrible... Dave Bowman Jul 2025 #1
It's good that we care, unfortunately, Trump's pal goes on unchecked. usonian Jul 2025 #2
Recommended. H2O Man Jul 2025 #3
Why is the world tolerating such evil? Irish_Dem Jul 2025 #4
They were collecting water for a Hamas swimming pool. LuvLoogie Jul 2025 #5
Vile or sarcasm? sinkingfeeling Jul 2025 #7
Obviously sarcasm... GiqueCee Jul 2025 #8
The Nation has crossed a line. erodriguez Jul 2025 #9
I heard from someone who's been there... GiqueCee Jul 2025 #10
Yeah. Our nation has crossed a line too. Ask any European. erodriguez Jul 2025 #11
Bait stations..... Bayard Jul 2025 #12
"Seeking life's essentials now a deadly peril". AloeVera Jul 2025 #6
We too are guilty of this daily horror snot Jul 2025 #13
Heartbreaking!! Beacool Jul 2025 #14

usonian

(23,517 posts)
2. It's good that we care, unfortunately, Trump's pal goes on unchecked.
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 01:07 AM
Jul 2025

But what's lost are the many in recent times who were similarly attacked, but in the "wrong" country, part of the world or of the "wrong" color or whatnot for anyone in the US to care, nor the media to make it known.

Irish_Dem

(79,742 posts)
4. Why is the world tolerating such evil?
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 04:49 AM
Jul 2025

Letting global monsters terrorize entire countries?

Putin, Netanyahu, Trump?

Wake the hell up world.

GiqueCee

(3,400 posts)
8. Obviously sarcasm...
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 07:51 AM
Jul 2025

... but in today's overheated political atmosphere, it is prudent to remind people that finding Netanyahu's policies shockingly reprehensible is NOT anti-semitic; it is a cogent observation that the mannot the nation as a whole – has crossed a line. Food and water sources are being used as bait stations for the slaughter of innocents. Nothing can forgive such atrocities.

erodriguez

(911 posts)
9. The Nation has crossed a line.
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 07:57 AM
Jul 2025

The people of the nation are letting this happen.
This is the government they elected. Netanyahu's policy represents the will of the majority.

The US needs to stop aiding Israel.

GiqueCee

(3,400 posts)
10. I heard from someone who's been there...
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 08:23 AM
Jul 2025

... that, even among native Israelis, a very real fear of savage retribution for speaking out poisons political discourse.
We here in the US are fast approaching the same circumstances in that regard, thanks to our own nest of vipers polluting politics.

AloeVera

(3,991 posts)
6. "Seeking life's essentials now a deadly peril".
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 06:06 AM
Jul 2025

Not by coincidence either.

It takes many lies to commit a genocide in front of the world and the world not do anything about it.

When it is served up with transparently false and self-serving lies - "human shields", "command-and control-centres" blah blah..

And those lies are taken as truth, swallowed whole, maybe with a wink and a nod while professing regret and even outrage... by Western leaders....

All to provide cover for of a rogue state bent on the destruction of a people to enable its expansion and regional hegemony to further the interests of those Western nations...

Then we start to understand how the world works and that our sorrow and outrage for these children and their parents is useless in stopping it and will be never-ending.

Despair.

snot

(11,494 posts)
13. We too are guilty of this daily horror
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 01:06 PM
Jul 2025

for not only letting it happen but actively enabling it.

Beacool

(30,500 posts)
14. Heartbreaking!!
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 01:12 PM
Jul 2025

I'm silently crying for Lulu, Karam, and all the other children who have died in this conflict.

May Netanyahu rot in hell!!





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