• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    Because it’s a warzone and not a safe place for civilians. They’ve made efforts to get civilians out of areas where there’s heavy fighting to parts of Gaza where food and aid can be distributed. There’s plenty of food and aid, the problem isn’t lack of aid, the problem is distributing it in the middle of a war. This is exceedingly difficult because of Hamas Nakba propaganda threats of violence to prevent civilians from leaving areas where there’s heavy fighting. Obviously Hamas wouldn’t survive very long if they didn’t have their human shields. You could walk from on end of the Gaza strip to the other in about 8 hours, so why is it a problem for civilians to get out of the parts of Gaza where there’s heavy fighting? Because nothing is easy in a war.

    So no it’s not “let’s just rock up to Gaza with a bunch of food, problem solved!” It’s a war, you’re either going to be adding more food to a pile in a place where people aren’t going to get it, or there’s a high probability you’ll be killed because you’re in a place where there’s heavy fighting going on. This isn’t CoD game where devs made it impossible to kill civilians unless you install an “I’m an evil monster” mod that allows you to do so. Bullets, shells, missiles, drones going every which way. Bullet from an IDF misses it’s target it might hit you and you’re dead. Also a bullet from Hamas might miss it’s target and hit you and you’re dead. Hamas dresses like civilians (except when there’s a ceasefire, then they have no problem finding their uniforms) so an 18 year old in a firefight might think you’re the Hamas guy that was just shooting at him and you’re dead because you happened to be wearing the same clothes as a Hamas guy. This is a war against Hamas, an adversary that will use your death to further their propaganda, so they aren’t going to keep you safe (more the opposite) in the places they operate and those are the places where the food is needed.

    So yeah, it was a propaganda mission designed to get everyone detained by the IDF so they could produce more propaganda. It was never about getting food to Palestinians.

    Why would you think Israel would want there to be more civilians in a warzone? Why would you want more civilians in a warzone? There’s a lot of ghouls that actually want Greta Thunberg to get killed by the IDF since it would be a big boost to their propaganda. Are you one of these ghouls?

    • ceiphas@feddit.org
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      2 hours ago

      Its plenty of food, as long as the IDF has a clear Sicht for some snipers and maybe a bomb underneath for gold measure… Israel is pulling off some really nasty panem style stuff