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[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago

The aid trucks need to be allowed into Gaza. Israel needs to be stopped by international pressure. This is genocide.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (13 children)

Biden does not care at all for the people of Gaza, that’s very clear with the money/ weapons he sends to Israel.

EDIT: you can keep downvoting since it doesn’t mean much on Lemmy. However, it is true. If he actually cared about the lives of the Palestinian people, he wouldn’t send so much to Israel due to the very fact, he knows that it will be used for the genocide on Palestinian people.

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[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

"More than 1 million Palestinians are now sheltering in Rafah. The IDF wants them to move out so that it can conduct an offensive against Hamas units in the city."

To where ?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They keep doing this. They herd them somewhere, start shooting and bombing, then herd the survivors somewhere else, telling them that's the safe place.

And, of course, they can always justify it by claiming that there were Hamas militants hiding in the crowds. Which... sounds like it makes them not an especially urgent target?

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I mean if you decimate an entire country with multiple nukes' worth of explosives, any civilian population left is probably going to harbour a few resistance members

[–] gex@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

The afterlife

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The IOF has built a camp for the concentration of civilians North of Rafah. I wonder if there's a name for such an unprecedented structure.

https://thecradle.co/articles/thousands-of-tents-set-up-in-central-gaza-as-israel-prepares-to-enter-rafah

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Problem. The IDF has been shooting Palestinians who try to move through their lines for months now. There's no confidence that the IDF will suddenly start letting them through.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thats why they'll let everyone into this camp with no problem, because shooting people in tents is much easier than shooting them in houses or running down rubble-laden streets

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

That's a lot of people to shoot. Much more likely they'll just bomb the camp.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought that picture was a screenshot of the movie District 9. Now making a parallel, even those alien guys were treated better than Palestinians.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

The picture looks insane. As first I thought it was AI generated because the parachutes and the building looked so weird. Everything is bent and spiky. But it's actually real.

[–] argueswithidiots@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

This is so surreal, I thought it was a screenshot from District 9.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (20 children)

Note how the "aid port" never actually materialised but the invasion of Rafah did

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If only people understood how time or construction projects work...

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it's much slower than destruction projects

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Is the UN official saying that the pier is enabling the Israeli invasion of Rafah, as though it wouldn't happen otherwise? Or is he saying that but for the pier, Israel will open more land crossing to aid?

And what is the corrective action? Should the pier be built somewhere else, or not at all? Are their any factors about where to locate the pier besides political? Like the depth of the water or existing infrastructure?

And if the problem with the aid is that it's a meaningless PR gesture, then does PR medicine not heal? Dose PR food not nourish?

Please help me understand why delivering food and medicine to Gaza is bad.

[–] livus@mander.xyz 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The UN officials aren't saying any of those things. Here's a tldr of the issue

  • The platform is meant to be in Northern Gaza where the worst of the starvation is

  • Israel wants it to be moved south to an Israeli choke point

  • Israel is about to close the crossings in South Gaza so it can attack Rafah

  • If the tiny amount of aid that can come in is able to be diverted to South Gaza then Israel may face less international condemnation over this phase of the Gaza genocide.

Please help me understand why delivering food and medicine to Gaza is bad.

If there is a starving child and you can choose to deliver them the nutrients they need but instead you choose to give them half a peanut instead, in a really theatrical way, that's obviously bad right?

That's what's happening here.

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[–] Sami@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago (12 children)

How do you get the materials in to build a pier? That should answer your questions if they are in good faith.

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Is this post about delivering aid being bad or does the title and article clearly state that this is a distraction tactic? Please help me understand your thought process of questioning things the article clearly answers.

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Shocked-Pikachu.png

[–] S491@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

It's a pier to ship the natural gas reserves under Gaza when they extract it

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