Michael Caine Is Being Praised For His Seriously Pure Attempt To Use His Platform To Raise Awareness For Palestine At 92 Years Old
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It comes after UN agencies warned that there is man-made, mass starvation in Gaza after Israel imposed a total blockade on aid and deliveries into the country at the start of March.
Despite the blockade being partially eased on occasion, shortages of food, medicine, and fuel have worsened.Per the BBC, the UN has recorded more than 1,000 people seeking aid being killed by Israeli forces over the past two months, and the IPC says that malnutrition has been rising rapidly throughout July, and has reached the famine threshold in Gaza City.
These devastating reports have led to many public figures using their platform to raise awareness and call for intervention, and people have been left touched by 92-year-old Michael Caine's attempt to utilize his social media account to do the same.
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The acting legend has had an X account since 2010, but has only tweeted 472 times in those 15 years. However, since Thursday, he has tweeted six times about the starvation in Gaza, including sharing details of a planned protest in London with his 818k followers.
'Feed the Children of Gaza, no child should be starving,' he tweeted on Thursday.
And on Sunday, Michael shared heartbreaking photos from Palestine, following up in a separate tweet: 'Feed Children Respect Children They are innocent.'
But it is Michael's photo post that really struck a chord with other social media users, who were taken by the way that the images had been cropped and uploaded.
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The photos are incredibly blurry, and one of them is actually a screenshot of the picture in an iPhone's photo editor, presumably from Michael's phone.
And the low quality of the pictures really brought home the fact that Michael had sent the tweets himself, and was seemingly doing the best he could with his platform despite struggling with the technology.
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One viral quote-tweet of Michael's post reads: 'Genuinely good on him. About as good as you're gonna get from an older celebrity.'
'He's 92 years old and has fewer than 500 tweets total. Good on him for posting this,' somebody else wrote.
Another added: 'he tried his best and that is what really matters i love him.'
One more observed: 'It's very endearing because it's proof he posted that himself, not some social media manager.'
While somebody else noted: 'that little doodle at the top from trying to crop the screenshot is more human and genuine than 90% of hollywood.'
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Yahoo
10 hours ago
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This food is then resold to "those who can still afford it" in the markets of Gaza City, where the price of a 25-kilogramme bag of flour can exceed $400, he added. – 'Never found proof' - Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of looting aid supplied by the UN, which has been delivering the bulk of aid since the start of the war triggered by the militant group's October 2023 attack. The Israeli authorities have used this accusation to justify the total blockade they imposed on Gaza between March and May, and the subsequent establishment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private organisation supported by Israel and the United States which has become the main aid distributor, sidelining UN agencies. However, for more than two million inhabitants of Gaza the GHF has just four distribution points, which the UN describes as a "death trap". 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"UN agencies and humanitarian organisations have repeatedly called on Israeli authorities to facilitate and protect aid convoys and storage sites in our warehouses across the Gaza Strip," said Bushra Khalidi, policy lead at Oxfam. "These calls have largely been ignored," she added. - 'All kinds of criminal activities' - The Israeli army is also accused of having equipped Palestinian criminal networks in its fight against Hamas and of allowing them to plunder aid. "The real theft of aid since the beginning of the war has been carried out by criminal gangs, under the watch of Israeli forces, and they were allowed to operate in proximity to the Kerem Shalom crossing point into Gaza," Jonathan Whittall, Palestinian territories chief of the UN humanitarian office (OCHA), told reporters in May. 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"One is fairly safe, the other is regularly the scene of fighting and looting, and that's the one we're forced to take." - 'Darwinian experiment' - Some of the aid is looted by gangs -- who often directly attack warehouses -- and diverted to traders who resell it at exorbitant prices, according to several humanitarian sources and experts. "It becomes this sort of Darwinian social experiment of the survival of the fittest," said Muhammad Shehada, visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). "People who are the most starved in the world and do not have the energy must run and chase after a truck and wait for hours and hours in the sun and try to muscle people and compete for a bag of flour," he said. Jean Guy Vataux, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Gaza, added: "We're in an ultra-capitalist system, where traders and corrupt gangs send kids to risk life and limb at distribution points or during looting. It's become a new profession." This food is then resold to "those who can still afford it" in the markets of Gaza City, where the price of a 25-kilogramme bag of flour can exceed $400, he added. – 'Never found proof' - Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of looting aid supplied by the UN, which has been delivering the bulk of aid since the start of the war triggered by the militant group's October 2023 attack. The Israeli authorities have used this accusation to justify the total blockade they imposed on Gaza between March and May, and the subsequent establishment of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private organisation supported by Israel and the United States which has become the main aid distributor, sidelining UN agencies. However, for more than two million inhabitants of Gaza the GHF has just four distribution points, which the UN describes as a "death trap". 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"UN agencies and humanitarian organisations have repeatedly called on Israeli authorities to facilitate and protect aid convoys and storage sites in our warehouses across the Gaza Strip," said Bushra Khalidi, policy lead at Oxfam. "These calls have largely been ignored," she added. - 'All kinds of criminal activities' - The Israeli army is also accused of having equipped Palestinian criminal networks in its fight against Hamas and of allowing them to plunder aid. "The real theft of aid since the beginning of the war has been carried out by criminal gangs, under the watch of Israeli forces, and they were allowed to operate in proximity to the Kerem Shalom crossing point into Gaza," Jonathan Whittall, Palestinian territories chief of the UN humanitarian office (OCHA), told reporters in May. 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