# Discussion for the Israel-Hamas War: A thread in the Pit

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**Created:** [November 5, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-for-the-israel-hamas-war-a-thread-in-the-pit/992653 "2023-11-05T21:57:34Z")\
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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> What? No, all Israel has to do is keep on its _current_ course and that will happen.

So your lot have been telling us for months now. Banquet\_Bear has been claiming it’s imminent since December.

> [@Discussion thread for the Hamas Attacks Israel thread, October 2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-hamas-attacks-israel-thread-october-2023/991317/2239):
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> Cindy McCain, director of the United Nations World Food Programme, has said Gaza is on the brink of famine. People that I’ve been following are now sick, some bed-ridden for days, because it isn’t just the bombs that are killing people. Disease, infection, starvation. We are at _that_ stage of the conflict now.

Exactly when is this mass starvation supposed to start happening?

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