As well as risk of death and injury, psychiatrist says situation is leading to symptoms such as convulsions and bed-wetting
  • Nacktmull@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    The children who survive this will naturally become the next generation of Hamas militants and who could blame them.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    People who condemn Hamas need to reconcile with this:

    Those people were once children who were traumatized by occupation. Maybe they saw their parents die. Maybe they saw their siblings die. Maybe it was their uncle or their best friends. Maybe they were buried under rubble for days and barely survived. Maybe they were shot at. Maybe they saw their homes destroyed.

    And then they had to just keep living under occupation. Go through checkpoints, live in cramped conditions, ration their own food, and know that their life expectancy is 40.

    Those are the people who attacked Israel. Can you even imagine the pain and terror and hate they must feel? Little traumas and humiliations every day of their lives, only differentiated by spikes of severe trauma when the IDF mows the lawn.

    I'd have killed myself. These people are incredible for hanging on despite everything. How dare you judge them?

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Historically, settler-colonial occupations are usually resolved with violence. Either resolved by the colonized people rising up against their oppressors... or the settlers genociding all of the occupied people until there's nothing but a few reservations of them left.

        And, honestly, I think we have at most a decade before WW3 resets the entire board anyway so...

      • Trudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        Likud's not very interested in resolving it nonviolently. Palestinians can't resolve the conflict peacefully in a unilateral manner.