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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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.
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.
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.
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.
- 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.
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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.
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
You tell ‘em!
All those dead children and babies completely supported Hamas.
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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