Why would they? Does starvation not aggravate all pre-existing conditions?
The fact that anyone on earth is splitting hairs about this shows you how desperately messed up everything is.
There is absolutely no moral victory whatsoever in defining down starvation, but that is what is happening, ultimately, whether in this story or in any others.
This is a routine thing that happens on social media in regards to Israel. A child with a terrible disease, or a child from a different conflict like Syria, will go viral with a headline "look how terrible israel is causing this disease"
At a time when most of the world is critizing Israel's food distribution program in Gaza (who its at war with), correctly stating the child is diseased and not simply suffering malnutrition is relevant.
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I live in NYC, Occasionally walking around with my dad (doctor), well see someone who is skin and bone.
My impulse is the person has anorexia, he says no, that person has late stage X disease. Just incorrect to think the woman has anorexia due to a mental disorder when she has organ failjre happening due to something else.
The fact that anyone on earth is splitting hairs about this shows you how desperately messed up everything is.
There is absolutely no moral victory whatsoever in defining down starvation, but that is what is happening, ultimately, whether in this story or in any others.