US military C-130 cargo planes have airdropped food and aid in pallets over Gaza. It's the opening stage of an emergency humanitarian assistance authorized by President Joe Biden after more than 100 Palestinians who had surged to pull goods off an aid convoy were killed during a chaotic encounter wi
  • dlatch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    If they would stop delivering bombs to Israel, they wouldn’t even have to drop this many meals in the first place, saving literally everyone in the process so much pain and effort.

  • TheDoozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    What the hell are we doing?

    We’re sending food as a humanitarian emergency operation to people starving from the seige perpetrated by the side we support with weapons. We’re helping to make them starve while sending “emergency aid” to them as if it’s not us keeping them in need of that aid.

    • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      A lot of people just read the headline and think the US are good guys. I noticed the AP had neglected to mention how many thousands of tons of weapons and amunition the US had sent to Israel.

  • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This is election year pandering. If the US air dropped aid, this means they would have needed authorization from Israel to fly over their space. They could have just demanded Israel step down so the aid thats already on the ground, but being blocked, could get delivered.

    There are also reports of the food being expired.