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
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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.
And now for more news from The Entire History Of The Human Species…
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?
Show a proof
Here you go, wanted to make this a first post but didn’t know where to post this disgusting shit
I was going to joke that he probably got it from the police he trained in the United States, but the inclusion of an Israeli flag takes this from fascist shit to peak fascist shit.
Agree, even more so considering the fact that the military usually discourages these kind of displays.
Seems they’re showing their true colors.
This is not an official symbol in the IDF.
I know it isn’t a “symbol of the IDF”, but an IDF soldier wore it on his arm and he successfully got out of his base and got up on that bus, meaning officers could have stopped this kind of clownery.
I agree
Only conclusion left is that the ofilficers didn’t mind to begin with
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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.
Well if someone actually good ran for President I’d vote for them. Until then, I’ll have to make do and vote for the person who isn’t actively trying to make the US as nightmarish as possible.
There are third party candidates that are “actually good”. Also, you are voting for genocide if you choose either of the two main candidates.
Guess I forgot to include that they also have to have a nonzero chance of getting elected.
So instead of voting for candidates that agree with your worldview, you’d rather vote for the two “available” ones, both of which support genocide
I have to make do with the cards I’ve been dealt, unfortunately. Part of me wants to flip the table, but that is only going to make things worse.
The only fix is a different form of voting and tossing the electoral system.
And that’s not going to happen without a super majority.
Literally, your only chance to get the change you’re looking for is to vote Democrat across the board, get them a super majority, and hope (against odds) that they choose to pursue election reform.
The popular opinion on lemmy of not participating in the 2 party system is just shouting into the wind while simultaneously enabling the extreme right.
Grow the fuck up.
Yeah elect them into a super majority, that will show them to abolish it
So besides kicking and screaming, what is your actual mechanism of achieving change? What does not voting or adding to the <5% of independent voters achieve?
Or will you continue to winge about how the democrats aren’t doing anything despite not actually having enough votes to do any of the things you’re demanding.
Edit - thought so. Not a single idea offered. You all sound exactly like the Occupy Wallstreet crowd that kicked and screamed as loudly as they could, but couldn’t offer a single plausible solution to fix the problem.
You want to complain that the status quo sucks without a plan on how to fix it.
Again, grow the fuck up.
The fascists need to be squashed. If we can give the Dems a super majority, they will have the tools to actually do something about it. Then they can break up into whatever new factions like progressives and moderates or whatever since it would be basically be inevitable after the fascists are pacified, and ranked choice voting would certainly be in the discussion.
Or you can continue to scream into the wind and accomplish nothing.
The idea is that the dems won’t ever change anything if people vote blue no matter who. You want to make politicians work for your vote not hold you hostage in a “are you voting for a single genocide or double genocide” scenario. If you keep voting blue no matter who the slide into fascism will be just as sure only dragged out longer.
He actual solution is communist revolution obviously, but that’s a whole other topic.
But what if I just want to watch the American Empire crumble and burn, Wrench?
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Thank you
On top of genocide of Palestinians, Trump also wants to genocide POC and LGBT at home… Are you saying you’re ok with the latter? What is the logic there?
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.
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.
I live in reality not fantasy. I cannot control Joe Biden. I can only realize I’m trapped in a situation where either Biden or Trump will be our ruler. On the one hand we have a psychopathic supporter of Palestinian genocide, on the other hand we have a psychopathic supporter of Palestinian, Mexican, Black, Gay, Trans, etc genocide.
Think about it. Think about what kind of person
A fucking psychopath, what I’m trying to get you to understand, is that the alternatives to Biden are not “not psychopaths”.
A) Psychopath A who wants to kill 2 million
B) Psychopath B who wants to kill 200 million
What is the logical choice, there is no realistic choice C – if you want to change the world, it must be done outside of this system, but since we’re trapped in the system, if you ignore it and leave it to the fascists, everything about your existence will become much harder and more risky.
Yeah, so trump didn’t support or cause a genocide when he literally had the ability. His track record for violence is strikingly less than the average presidents. Biden has been vice president and president for some straight up heinous shit, intentionally destabilizing entire countries.
Dude literally attempted to start a war with Iran. And the only reason he didn’t use the military against protestors is because the military refused the order. So instead he created a special unit in the Department of Justice made up of volunteers. They covered themselves by saying they were defending federal property but instead they were filmed abducting people in the vicinity of protests and damaging cars they believe belonged to protestors. They routinely fired “less than lethal” projectiles into crowds that were just standing around. Often they aimed to maim people with those projectiles, instead of aiming them low as intended.
Trump also fomented our first armed insurrection in 160 years. And then he tried to stop the military from responding to it.
He clearly wanted to do all the stupid stuff. He just sucked at it and had a lot of patriots doing every thing they could to slow him down or stop him. Round 2 would be very different. For example the hold on military promotions Tuberville was running? That fits perfectly with the playbook for subverting the military. You make the job bad enough that competent people leave and your buddies stay because they understand the mission. Repeat that cycle a few times and you can begin a silent purge of NCOs and lower officers that aren’t seen as loyal to the cause.
If someone failed to coup your government you don’t give them a second chance.
And they say the “right” is into conspiracy theories. “He’s a fucking moron, but look at all this shit that mastermind nearly pulled off”
Obviously he didn’t nearly pull it off. He did very much attempt to pull it off and now it’s a group project.
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.
Bernie 2024
He also supports genocide. So no.
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.
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- 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.
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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
You’re fucking dumb.
that’s because they kept launching suicide bombings when walls were not there
And you’ve proven yourself to a bigot with your first point. You just put all Palestinians under one banner and insinuated that the entire group was bombing Israel. Complete lie. Nonetheless, rounding up an entire group of people and punishing them for the actions of a group within them is a literal war crime. It’s called Collective Punishment. You are wrong.
false , israeli constitution treats them equally, unlike sharia
Right. That’s why they’re forced into an open air prison, denied food, bombed repeatedly, denied rights and having their land taken away from them. Because they have to be treated equally. You are wrong.
surely that will improve their situation
Irrelevant. They have literally no recourse as everything else, including their basic freedom, has been taken away from them. You don’t get to oppress people for decades and then be upset when they strike back at you for treating them like lesser humans. Sorry. You’re wrong.
there are no prisoners in genocide
Definition: (noun) the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
Note that the definition does not say kill everyone in that group of people or preclude prisoners. You are wrong.
A single picture of prisoners posted as if that somehow means that because some prisoners were taken that no one could have possibly been killed. I mean nevermind the fact that the prisoners are effectively naked and left sitting in the street in a stress position. And the fact that chances are those prisoners are just civilians.
“Israelis Question Army’s Rules of Engagement After Hostages Slain” Source
“Israeli forces 'kill pregnant women in Gaza, run over bodies with bulldozers” Source
“UN calls for probe as Israeli army accused of killing 11 unarmed Palestinians” Source
And in continuing with tradition, you are wrong.
stop consuming islamist propaganda
Stop being an Israeli propagandist who is openly supporting the execution of children, hostages and unarmed civilians.
You are not valid enough as a human being for me to continue talking to you. You wanna deny someone else being a human? Get treated the same way.
I’d say goodbye but that is far more respect than you deserve.
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
Half the population is literally CHILDREN.
You might also want to consider why, in the first place, any of them would support Hamas? Israel started this, it’s always been an attempted genocide.You tell ‘em!
All those dead children and babies completely supported Hamas.
Doctors Without Borders reports that well over a hundred children in Gaza are dying every day. Israel kills more children every week than total civilians died on 10/7.
Hamas’ attack was heinous, but it is not even close to being a justification for killing one in every hundred Gazans and counting. The actions of a terrorist group do not absolve Israel of responsibility in its mass slaughter of children, for which you are a despicable apologist.
responsibility in its mass slaughter of children
for which hamas is soley responsible for
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They could choose between the israeli backed puppet Fatah and Hamas
Fatah won in the west bank. And now the west bank is overran by israeli Nazi’s stealing everyone’s house, murdering children and burning olive trees.
Hamas was a protest vote against Fatah more so than an actual vote of confidence.
Of course support for Hamas is now growing because they are the only organisation fighting against genocidal Nazi israel.
Even before israel started it’s current genocide many warnings were given that they should take care not to kill innocent civilians or it would only strengthen resistance groups. Of course they did not listen and the IDF is indiscriminately massacring women and children
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genocidal Nazi israel.
first genocide i have seen where population is growing, and palestinians are allowed to live in israel with equal rights
Last time I checked Palestinians were banned from walking on certain roads on israel and taking public transport. Did they fix this while I blinked?
that’s disinfo, it’s restricted not inaccessible roads
They need to pass through a checkpoint to drive on them, but once they pass - they’re allowed. If you spend long enough, you’ll find cars with Palestinian license plates in places like Tel Aviv and Haifa.
Not to mention that many areas inside the West Bank as well marked by this map as “segregated” are in reality used by Israelis and Palestinians alike with their respective plates and they are often driving on the exact same roads.
A correct tag would be saying they’re restricted. Not inaccessible.
Also, while not blocked entirely for Israeli cars, there are signs strongly discouraging Israelis from visiting zones categorized as area A under the 1993 Oslo accords. Evidence
Oh shit a license plate of a car parked somewhere. My bad everything falls apart now.
Would you care to address this video rebuking your claim and tell me what is not factual?
