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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

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      10 months ago
      1. Have been kept in an open air prison their entire lives
      2. Are told their lives are lesser than Israelis
      3. 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
      4. Beg the west for help as they’re being genocided out of existence by the Israeli government who is repeatedly bombing children to death.
      5. 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.

      • Allah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        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

        • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
          19·
          10 months ago

          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.

      • Rolder@reddthat.comEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        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.

    • Andy@slrpnk.netEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      Jesus Christ, dude.

      Last I checked, Hamas wasn’t made up of newborns.

      Fuck.

    • Alteon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      10 months ago

      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.

        • Gabadabs@kbin.social
          10·
          10 months ago

          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.

        • BreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          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.

          • Allah@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            responsibility in its mass slaughter of children

            for which hamas is soley responsible for

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          51·
          10 months ago

          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

          • Allah@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            genocidal Nazi israel.

            first genocide i have seen where population is growing, and palestinians are allowed to live in israel with equal rights

            • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              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?

              • Allah@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                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.

                Evidence

                Evidence

                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