Eight months of war have reduced nine-year-old Yunis Jumaa to skin and bone.

Stretched out, semi-unconscious on a hospital bed in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, his twisted frame is hard to look at.

His arms and legs like matchsticks, his knee joints bulging, his chest heaves with the skin stretched tight over his rib cage.

“My son was in excellent health before, he was normal,” says his mother Ghanima Jumaa.

“But when he developed this malnutrition and dehydration, he became as you see him now.”

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    4 months ago

    A lot probably. But Hamas taking out the pipes didn’t help the matter either.

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      Got a source that isn’t some mongrel barking the words of the Israel State which is currently engaged in genocide? Cuz i have lots of sources calling this a genocide, and just you saying “naw actually hamas stuck a stick in their own bike wheel.”

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        4 months ago

        I never mentioned Israel and war in any part of my comment. I said Hamas taking out water pipes didn’t help the situation. Which is true no matter how much you Hamas-apologists tried. There’s no need to even look for source, they published the video themselves bragging how they made weapons from pipes Israel laid. It’s all over the internet.

        Here’s one

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          Not to mention all the brand new plumbing they have down in the tunnels, plenty of fresh water for all the Hamas commanders.

          Even hostages get water before Gaza’s own children, they are way more valuable to Hamas.