Gaza hospitals ceasing to function as water and fuel run out

If concessions can not be made to save these lives even with the entire world watching, then I do not want to hear falsehoods about caring for human rights.

I've been very cautious to reserve the word "Genocide" because I didn't want to devalue it with hyperbole. For years, I've said that Israel is ethnically cleansing historic Palestine. But reading this article... I think this is the point where it becomes genocide, full and proper.
It's shocking to bear witness to.
- By the UN definition, it's been genocide for a long fucking time
- And Biden, Blinken, etc have lashed themselves to the mast next to Netanyahu and Likud, promising a blank check no matter what.
  Usually I'm OK with Biden (I think the way he handled Ukraine was pretty damn good) but this is a disastrous decision on our part.
- It is genocide either way by definition. Whether it's cultural or straight murder.
A good way to avoid that is to not illegally enter Israel and start firing rockets! Wake up!
- Children shouldn't be punished for the crimes of crazy men.
- Civilian Palestinians did not do any of those things. Thise were the acts of Hamas, not Palestinian children.

What an absolute nightmare. Those poor people are caught in the middle of a conflict they can do nothing about. It’s horrific.

I find it both horrifying and nauseating at the same time. This makes me sad to be a human being.
- This makes me sad to be a human being.
  Look for the helpers.
- Wait until you realize how many species we've driven to extinction, and how many more we have yet to kill, before we kill ourselves due to runaway climate collapse. That's the shit that makes me sad to be human.
- Human beings are just about the worst thing to happen to this planet.

I really hope israel will loose their wildcard and be accountable for all this shit. Just remove their privileges!

They won't. The extermination of Palestinians has been a stated goal of Israel and its allies for decades.
They're not going to be punished for pulling the trigger.
- This is the full transcript of the recording between an Israeli IDF officer and a resident of northern Gaza
  "Hello?"
  "Muhammad?"
  "Yes"
  "How are you?"
  "Yes"
  "This is an officer from the IDF calling you. For your own safety I'm asking you to go to Khan Yunis as fast as possible "
  "Where to?"
  "In the direction of Khan Yunis. ASAP. I don't want you to put yourself at risk, that's why I'm telling you to go there."
  "All the roads are blocked"
  "Where you are right now isn't safe, you need to.. blocked where? Who blocked it? Hamas?"
  "Yes"
  "What?"
  "Yes, that's correct"
  "Where did they block the road?"
  "At Salah ad-Din"
  "Salah ad-Din?"
  "Yeah"
  "How did they block it?"
  "They're just forcing people to go back home"
  "Are they putting cars on the road? Police cars or.."
  "Yes yes"
  "How exactly? Explain it to me. Please, did you see it with your own eyes?"
  "In a car, people are going south and they're just bringing them back home"
  "How did they block the road?"
  "They're shooting at people"
  "Shooting what? Are they shooting at people that want to leave?"
  "Yes yes yes"
  https://twitter.com/ItayBlumental/status/1717466384794300882?t=7HRQJ5h29HRlfhN1fCl3mQ&s=19
- Israel=The Israeli govt. in basically every conversation within this context. Trying to say "but both right?!" When that's what everyone has been saying from the start, makes you look like you're acting in bad faith.
It's hard to go against them in the West.
The right hate Muslims so side with Israel.
The left hate to be called antisemites, so hand-wring over civilian deaths, but ultimately side with Israel.
- Who are these voices on the "left" that you say are supporting Israel?
- No one on the left is hand wringing over the civilian deaths but ultimately siding with Israel. Literally no one.
You recall that Hamas attacked Israel in the bloodiest assault in history, right?
You guys make me embarrassed to call myself a lefty.
- Well gee, that sure does give Isreal the right to do ethnic cleansing. It's self defense after all so everything is permissible. /s
- Hamas doing something horrible doesn't make it OK to starve the entirety of Gaza though, not everyone inside Gaza is Hamas
- Bloodiest assault in history? You have to be joking.
- (x) Doubt.
- "Look at what you made me do!"
- Hasn't Israel been killing them since LONG before they took hostages? Why would release them suddenly make it stop?
- Just lovely how everybody is forgetting that Israel is responsible for that.
  Everyone can always blame someone else, especially in this conflict. It's time for Israel to grow up and take responsibility for its actions. They have caused harm, anger, and hatred by using terrorism (fear and violence) to enforce their rule over people. Somehow we (the US and most of the west) provide them with resources and weapons though. How fucked up is that?
- Evil is as evil does. There is never a justification for attacking civilians.
- "Stop making me murder you!"
- Israel doesn't give two shits about the hostages. If they did they wouldn't keep bombing where they are being held.
- Why did they take hostage?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Hospitals in Gaza are ceasing to function because they are running out of water and fuel for generators, while being overwhelmed by huge numbers of casualties and civilians seeking shelter from Israeli bombing.

No new fuel has been allowed into Gaza since the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, starving hospital generators as well as the desalination and pumping plant essential to the water system.

Video posted on Tuesday showed the Indonesian hospital in north Gaza in total blackout after the generators failed, with the sole illumination from mobile phones.

Tanya Haj-Hassan, a Canadian-based paediatric intensive care and humanitarian doctor who helps run a western support network for Gaza health workers, said a third of hospitals in the territory had ceased to function.

Another member of the western support group, Omar Abdel-Mannan, a senior paediatric neurology resident at Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London, said: “Doctors on the ground are using minimal anaesthesia so they can economise on it.”

Medical experts from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited hospitals in Gaza on Tuesday and confirmed the dire reports from doctors on the ground.

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Holy fuck, Lemmy is being brigaded by the pro-israel trolls.

Don't know if this thread was linked elsewhere but the shift in sentiment in newer posts are jarring
I don't know where you get that from, all comments in this thread are critical of Israel...
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Hamas really really fucked up this time.

You realize that this is the EXACT outcome they would have expected right? You think Hamas expected Israel to surrender to paragliders? This was what they WANTED to happen. Now the whole world is watching Israel losing their shit on civilians and their international support is crumbling all around them. Hamas doesn't give a shit about the palestinian people, but they do care about getting Israel into a position to be openly attacked by its Arab neighbors without the US and Europe coming in to fight on their behalf. It looks like that plan is actually going pretty well.
- Isreal has the most support it has had in decades. They have widespread support to remove Hamas, or at least seriously damage Hamas, from most of their allies.
"Stop making me murder you!"

That's a pay for supporting terrorism

You sound like a highly educated individual
Ahh yes. All of these children getting killed is justified.
you're just cringe and illogical at this point, these aren't military hospitals.
- Even if they were military hospitals, bombing military hospitals is a war crime.

Further proof Hamas terrorists hate Gazan Palestinians as much as they hate everyone else.

*People are downvoting because they refuse to admit Hamas terrorists use Palestinians as shields only; without a care for civilian safety as a tool to protect themselves.

This is the thing. Palestinians aren't treated as humans, but as tool or a weapon.
Even the countries that supposedly support Palestine, not a single of them offers to take refugees.
The truth is they hate Palestinians too (wrong Muslim sect) they just hate Jews a little bit more than them, but they have no problem if both kill each other.
- What do you mean? The majority of palestinian are sunni muslim like the majority of arab countries and the vast majority of palestinian refugees outside of palestinian territory/israel are in the neighboring arab countries (albeit in horrible living conditions in refugee camps most of the time).
- WTF are you talking about?
  Those countries don't offer to take them in because they will not be let back after this is over.
  The majority of Palestinians are sunni, and even if they weren't, that never really mattered to any country besides Iran.
  And the countries of the Levant are known for being very secular, unlike Isn'trael.
- @takeda
  wrong Muslim sect
  Where did you pick up that idea? Most Palestinians are Sunni just like their neighbours.
- It's simple to see why no one wants Palestinian refugees. Last time countries accepted them they had a civil war on their hands. This way everyone lets Israel take the blame and pretend not to notice.
- wrong Muslim sect
  There's a bit of that but only as far as Lebanon is concerned, because Hezbollah is Shia and Palestinian Muslims (and especially Hamas) are mostly Sunni and there will likely be a fight for power between Hezbollah and Hamas if the latter ever infiltrate Lebanon, because for the past 13 centuries there has never been peace on the same soil between Shia and Sunni armed groups, which is why Lebanon is not opening its doors to Palestinians.
  With regards to Egypt, sect isn't really the issue as both are Sunni. However, the military that is ruling Egypt has a very rough history with the Muslim Brotherhood (which was very violent back then, almost nothing to do with Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood) from which Hamas was born, so they likely don't want Hamas terrorists infiltrating Egypt either.
  So neither Egypt nor Lebanon want Palestinians as they're placing their security and more importantly their political interests above Palestinian lives.
even if that was true, the other side could just stop hitting the shield all the time and do precise targeting.
- It's true.
"Stop making me murder you!"

Yeah, why don't the Palestinians give up and just accept being ethnically cleansed? I mean, they're Arabs why don't they just move in with the other Arabs, they're all one big homogeneous group, right?
- Somewhat ironically, the biggest impediment is Hamas mission to genocide the Jews.
@rivermonster most of them are not vocal about it right now. Many of them have normalised relations with Israel in the last few years.
They also hold the belief that allowing Israel to chase all the Palestinians out of Palestine and grab the land would be the end of the Two State Solution, turning the latter into permanent refugees.
In practical terms given Israel's blockades the only country in a position to take them is Egypt.
Egypt already hosts 9 million refugees, taking another 2 million would be politically unpopular with voters.
Egypt is also afraid of ending up in a border war with Israel (which would happen if any of the new refugees attacked Israel).
Egypt also wants the Two State Solution
Here is an article that might interest you: Why Egypt Won't Open The Border To Its Palestinian Neighbours
The people who will leave Gaza are never gonna be let back in. The neighboring Arabic countries already have lots of Palestinian refugees.
Jordan won't take them because the Palestinians assassinated their king, created a civil war in Jordan, and tried to assassinate their next king.
Lebanon won't take them because they keep joining Hezbollah.
Egypt won't take them because they keep joining up with Muslim Brotherhood and trying to destabilize the government.
Syria won't take them because they're in the middle of a civil war.
Iran won't take them because they're more useful as a tool to destabilize Israel.
Am I missing anyone?
Because the neighboring countries did that in the past in various forms and it fucked them all up in some manner. These are not normal people. They're twisted by decades of living under war or terrorist rule. Their population is so young because everyone old died that half the people alive never actually experienced a stable life. They know nothing but this. As a result they are really hard to integrate.
Because then they risk becoming the target of what Israel buys with the 50 billion dollars Joe Biden just sent to them.
Edit: if to of

Hamas hasn't yet released the fuel they've been hoarding?

Have they been hoarding it in the hospital?
You know all about their fuel stocks? You must work for the CIA or something.