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Al Jazeera
Politics
Simon Speakman Cordall

Why are Israelis ‘not at all troubled’ by starvation in Gaza?

Yazan Abu Ful, a two-year-old malnourished child, sits with his father in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on July 23, 2025 [Jehad Alshrafi/AP]

Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday to demand that their government reach a deal to release two Israeli captives held in Gaza who have been shown as starving in Hamas footage.

The video showed that captives have been as badly affected by the blockade Israel imposed on Gaza in March as the rest of the population trapped there.

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