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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

  • Andy@slrpnk.netEnglish
    312·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • blazeknave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    232·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.netEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • BingoBangoBongo@midwest.socialEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • speaker_hat@lemmy.oneEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • McDropout@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1618·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • McDropout@lemmy.worldEnglish
        57·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
            45·
            1 year ago

            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.

              • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
                14·
                1 year ago

                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.

                • mathemachristian[he]@lemm.eeEnglish
                  02·
                  1 year ago

                  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.

            • JimboDHimbo@lemmy.caEnglish
              31·
              1 year ago

              But what if I just want to watch the American Empire crumble and burn, Wrench?

        • harmsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          53·
          1 year ago

          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.

    • kool_newt@lemm.eeEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • kool_newt@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

        • Sagifurius@lemm.eeEnglish
          01·
          1 year ago

          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.

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
      384·
      1 year 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.

      • Rolder@reddthat.comEnglish
        15·
        1 year 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.

      • Allah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        531·
        1 year 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
          171·
          1 year 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.

    • Andy@slrpnk.netEnglish
      202·
      1 year ago

      Jesus Christ, dude.

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

      Fuck.

    • Alteon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 year 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.