Celebrities take to social media to share their thoughts on Palestine & Israel

[xoxobliss]

People around the world have taken to social media and the streets in support of both Palestine and Israel as conflict continues. Since October 7, around 1,300 people have been killed, with 3,400 wounded in the Hamas attack on Israel. Israeli airstrikes have killed around 2,329 Palestinians in Gaza, with 9,714 wounded

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[doverz]

I was just going to start working on a post talking about this! My understanding was that the mods wanted more things from official sources than celebrity responses, since a lot of celebrities have no true idea what they're talking about when they're posting

[progression]

Your own former PM had no issues stating he was in support of Israel cutting off power and water (never once denying that Israel has control over it) to the medically vulnerable and babies on life support in Gaza. In fact, he made sure not to differentiate between Hamas and Palestinians by calling everyone there a Nazi. 🙃

[xoxobliss]

I am from Gaza and I am telling you this is a JOKE.

Israel destroyed many water pipes.

Also, without electricity we can NOT turn on the water pumps.

Water in Gaza does not simply run into the taps. We have to fill water tanks about twice a week. https://t.co/yu7iyPsTOc
- Refaat🇵🇸 (@itranslate123) October 15, 2023

[stewie_e]

I was just going to start working on a post talking about this! My understanding was that the mods wanted more things from official sources than celebrity responses, since a lot of celebrities have no true idea what they're talking about when they're posting.

Correct. We haven't gone back on that entirely. I just thought since this is a round up of most celebrity reactions instead of individual posts, that this was the perfect post to allow for our members to be able to discuss this. Someone also made a good point that even some reputable sources are being very "one sided." So that pushed me to go ahead and approve this for now.

[potatoehead25]

[doverz]

It's definitely a thing where one country buys water from another country. For example, a rural part of Arizona was giving all their water to a Saudi-owned company that was sending the water to Saudia Arabia to grow alfalfa hay.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/16/fondomonte-arizona-drought-saudi-farm-water/#:~:text=For%20nearly%20a%20decade%2C%20the,water%20the%20company%20was%20consuming.

[potatoehead25]

[justleilah]

It's to secure alliances at the international level when Israel wants political power/silence.