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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