Israel is starving Gaza
Israel is starving Gaza
Israel forces aid organizations to purchase food from Egypt and prevents them from buying it in Israel, which would allow for a more efficient and rapid transfer of goods. Israel also prohibits the private sector in Gaza from purchasing food, which could significantly increase supply. Although Israel recently allowed trucks in through Kerem Shalom Crossing, too, which is designed for commercial transports, this was merely a token addition that has failed to alleviate the hardship.
Aid organizations are struggling to operate under current conditions, and most of the limited aid allowed in remains in Rafah instead of reaching residents throughout the Strip. Martin Griffiths, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, listed several reasons why aid cannot be efficiently distributed. Among other things, he noted that trucks are inspected several times before Israel allows them into Gaza, and even then, long lines form due to the conditions at Rafah Crossing. The little food that does get in is very difficult to distribute due to the constant bombings, destroyed roads, frequent communication blackouts, and shelters overflowing with of hundreds of thousands of IDPs crowding into smaller and smaller areas.
Israel can, if it so chooses, change this reality. The images of children begging for food, people waiting in long lines for paltry handouts and hungry residents charging at aid trucks are already inconceivable. The horror is growing by the minute, and the danger of famine is real. Still, Israel persists in its policy.
Changing this policy is not just a moral obligation. Allowing food into the Gaza Strip is not an act of kindness but a positive obligation under international humanitarian law: starvation as a method of warfare is prohibited
This is truly horrific. I think anyone with a kid is hit especially hard. Imagining my kid drinking contaminated water, and being too tired to play, and just sitting in a makeshift tent, unable to get a good night's rest, constantly running from bombs... That's hell. No child should have to experience that.
I hate gatekeeping anything with anyone but I've felt the same as you since day 1. Maybe I just didn't have enough empathy or kids close to me before fatherhood, but the difference for me is night and day. The idealistic political bullshit I'd espoused before... Now all I think is, all of you get fucked and get out of there so these children can be taken care of and their families can make a living to provide them basics. I have an online friend in Kiev. He mods a game I play. Same middleage, same corp tech sales career. Families. Similar lives two years ago. And we chat and just the usual shit, and, "oh fuck, missiles, brb." This motherfucker could be anybody in Philadelphia, Seoul, or Vienna, and then, boom, war. It's fucking horrendous. I've always despised war and the machine, but as a parent I don't have opinions about how to stop it anymore, I just want it to end. And seeing it casually in the West like this, in a way our generation only watched in southeast Europe decades ago at this point.. it's jarring. Then looking over at Gaza from there.. it's hard to function to imagine life for these children. I feel like shit if I snap at my kid or that he's not growing up less poor or unprivileged than me in spite of how hard I work. That feels like stolen childhood. He hasn't been to Disney, and even knowing it's corporate bullshit, I cry over letting him down. And then, again, you look at the kids in Gaza and my lord... How anyone can politicize any of it... They're children.
Starving the members of the etnic group they think of as "human animals" to death is cheaper than using Zyklon B, and so is blowing them up with 2000lb bombs because America provides them for free.
So fun fact. If you go read the IPC report, the review committee says they believe the findings are being reported conservatively. So the numbers are even worse than what's reported here.
Do the people in Germany know this? Because I've heard that the media there only focus on Hamas in this conflict, and I think that this is an dishonest approach to reporting news. And why is it important what Germany thinks you say? Because, as the most populous and economiclaly active country in the EU, it is very influential in the policy making of EU.
That is disappointing to see from Israel.
But not at all surprising.
This just in: country created on etno-religious lines turns out to be rabidly racist and extremelly and indiscriminatelly violent against a much weaker neighbouring group of a different etnic group whose lands they want to take.
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I've just seen an Israeli soldier with the punisher symbol on his flag patch, this was getting insane the moment it started. With how much surveillance is going on here in israel, is there anything israelis can do?
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For my American friendly on Lemmy; both Joe Biden and Donald Trump support this.
But they will try to convince me how Joe Biden is a better candidate. They’re both terrible.
We know, McDropout. We know.
The downvotes whenever I mention this are not very telling.
Many individuals tend to cling to a state of denial when confronted with the notion that participating in an electoral system limited to choosing between two political parties does not authentically embody the principles of a genuine democracy.
But I digress.
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And yet all it would take for Trump to not be elected is for one man, one single man, to change the way he acts.
Yet, instead of that easy, logical option of Biden behaving differently, the millions of Americans who feel revolted with this Genocide and the US Administration's giving material support to the genociders, are supposed to ignore their Principles and vote for the guy who is activelly giving heavy bombs to be used in committing mass murder.
Joe Biden is not willing to stop supporting Genocide even against the Principles of millions of people who voted for him and who he is supposed to represent, not even to make sure he gets their votes again so that Trump doesn't get elected.
Think about it. Think about what kind of person puts his desire to support those committing Genocide even against not merelly the wishes but even the Morals and Principles of those who elected him and even when by doing so he created a situation where there is a serious risk that Trump gets elected again.
They are, but one of them is committed to letting us at least have an appearance of choice. The other is making jokes about being a dictator and arguing in court that he could murder his political rivals and it would be legal.
So they're both horrible people. But one of them is a magnitude worse.
This is where Hamas lead it's people, the Palestinians.
Israel has been facilitating payments from Qatar to Hamas to keep them in power in case you didn't know. They created this situation on purpose. Hamas sucks, but Israel fostered it as an excuse to commit genocide.
Israel did it because Israel believed in peace with Hamas, and that they'll do good with the Palestinians.
Additional proof to that is the IDF withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.
There is no genocide, the West Bank is an example for that.
Israel is a colony that didn't exist 80 years ago, it should be dissolved
Your rude comment is reported
- Started a war
- Captures Israel people
- Torturing the hostages, raping men and women brutally.
- beg the west for help
- Creating sympathy tweets like please save our peace loving community repeat
- Have been kept in an open air prison their entire lives
- Are told their lives are lesser than Israelis
- Respond with anger and violence towards oppressors who have been killing them, committing war crimes against them, and saying they do not deserve to exist
- Beg the west for help as they're being genocided out of existence by the Israeli government who is repeatedly bombing children to death.
- Openly and repeatedly surrender but are executed by the Israeli Defense Force while having their hands above their heads and run over with a steam roller while pregnant, something that IDF also inflicts on its own citizens as IDF executed Israeli hostages who were waving white flags and pleading for help after being released.
Israel is a terrorist state actively committing genocide and trying to out perform WW1 Canadians on the amount of war crimes.
Fixed that for you.
Just want to point out that when Israel was first created, all their arab neighbors invaded them with the express purpose of wiping them out of existence.
Just want to point out that when Israel was first created, all their arab neighbors invaded them with the express purpose of wiping them out of existence.
Have been kept in an open air prison their entire lives
that's because they kept launching suicide bombings when walls were not there
Are told their lives are lesser than Israelis
false , israeli constitution treats them equally, unlike sharia
Respond with anger and violence towards oppressors who have been killing them, committing war crimes against them, and saying they do not deserve to exist
surely that will improve their situation
Beg the west for help as they’re being genocided out of existence by the Israeli government who is repeatedly bombing children to death.
there are no prisoners in genocide
Openly and repeatedly surrender but are executed
stop consuming islamist propaganda
Jesus Christ, dude.
Last I checked, Hamas wasn't made up of newborns.
Fuck.
So your user name Live Let Live is just for ironic effect?
You think because HAMAS committed a fucking warcrime that's it's acceptable that Israel is allowed to commit genocide of an entire population of people? You are disgusting.
The Gazan people didn't start this. HAMAS is murdering them too.
But you wouldn't know that, because your too busy being an ignorant pissant that posts about shit that they know nothing about. Going be a worthless sack of shit elsewhere. People and children are dying and assholes like you are only making it worse by fucking posting a bullshit narrative that isn't factually accurate.
they voted them in and hamas is the reason why west bank won't hold elections.
they bought this upon themselves
