“Israel MUST open the borders and allow the United Nations to deliver supplies in sufficient quantities.”
“The United States, which has helped fund the Israeli military for years, cannot sit back and allow hundreds of thousands of innocent children to starve to death,” Sanders (Vt.) said in a statement. “As a result of Israeli bombing and restrictions on humanitarian aid, the people of Gaza are facing an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.”
Israeli forces have killed more than 30,200 Palestinians in Gaza—most of them women and children—while wounding over 71,300 others and displacing around 90% of the besieged enclave’s 2.3 million people. Children are now starving to death, and experts say adults, especially elders and other vulnerable people, will soon follow absent urgent intervention.
Even the Hama-run health ministry in Gaza isn’t claiming that Israel directly killed 30,000 women and children. The claim I see repeated is that the “majority” of casualties are women and children. They also don’t differentiate between combatants and non-combatants.
Additionally, all casualties are counted as victims of “Israeli aggression,” regardless of how they were killed. Meaning, if Hamas or the Islamic Jihad misfires a rocket, or accidentally shoots a bystander, it is counted the same as if an IDF soldier pulled the trigger.
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Personally, I am increasingly concerned with deaths from disease, dehydration, and starvation. Effectively delivering and distributing humanity aid needs to be a top priority.
Of course aid should be a top priority. But even if supposedly Hamas did everything you said (which they didn’t as the BBC wrote an article detailing the fire came from israel), the aid one is one you cannot possibly attribute to Hamas.
The only one responsible for the little children that already starved to in Gaza to death is israel .
Uh, did I miss something?
When in my comment did I say what Hamas did?
Your claim directly implies that Hamas is killing civilians which we know they don’t. The only party that is willing to kill their own civilians is israel
Hamas has at the very least accidentally killed civilians, but I don’t think we’ll come to an understanding on this.
Sure they might have. That amount will be negligible and I don’t see how it has any relevance to this current situation.
I wouldn’t differentiate between combatants and non-combatants either. The assumption that every military aged male in Palestine is a combatant is probably close to correct, as military-aged men are going to be the most likely to take up arms to defend their home
Fuck Israel, btw, if that didn’t get across in the last paragraph. Jerusalem needs a well-placed suitcase nuke; hit the people in charge, not the people in general
Edit: The combatant/non-combatant distinction isn’t particularly useful when discussing an area that has been militarily invaded; of course the people who live there will try to fight back against their invaders, whether they’re trained military or not. If America decided to invade my country, you can be damned sure I’d kill any of their soldiers I met in the smoke pit outside the bar, and they’d call it murder