Israel blocks the entry of Plumpy Nut into Gaza, a peanut-butter like paste meant for treating severe acute malnutrition. They say it is a luxury item Hamas might steal.[1] The amount of evidence Israel is committing genocide is embarrassing.
How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
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#92There is simply no excuse for blocking the entry of food into a region wholesale. For that alone they should, at the very least, be an outcast in the international community. But here we are.
Honest question, why can it not just go through the 14 km border with Egypt? Is Egypt also blocking access for food and aid?
Because the Rafah crossing is currently controlled by the Israeli army. Egypt can allow all the aid it wants, it’ll still get stopped by the Israelis.
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#93Question:
There is a repeated claim that more calories have been provided to the Gaza people than several other human crisis scenarios, but that Hamas is currently stealing it all.
But I have never seen rampant obesity in Hamas prisoners that the IDF have captured alive? Hamas can't be extorting the Gazan people for those calories, the Gazan people have no money at this point by and large due to the huge swath of destruction of property and infrastructure via bombing-- only Hamas has those underground tunnels or somesuch.
So like... what is going on here
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#94Fixed headline: "How Israel caused famine in Gaza".
There is an editorial voice reserved purely for blunting reporting on American and Israeli state crimes that drives me nuts.
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#95There is simply no excuse for blocking the entry of food into a region wholesale. For that alone they should, at the very least, be an outcast in the international community. But here we are.
The claim I've heard them make is that the food aid is making it in, but being stolen by Hamas so that it can be resold at markup. How do you convince people that believe this that it isn't true (or is irrelevant)?
In conditions of desperation, aren’t the strong people with the guns always the last to starve?
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#96What I find the most jarring about this on a day-to-day being in tech circles is how some of the smartest people I know are not only unwilling to call out what's happening, they're unwilling to acknowledge it to begin with, and some like the triangle man and Collison brothers even support it. The more time I spend in tech the more I realize there's a deep moral rot here covered up by noveau-rich wealth
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#98For reference: While the gas chambers were are the prominent way of death during the Holocaust, the majority of victims died of starvation. Starvation death looks like succumbing to a random sickness (the body is just too weak for a functional immune response), and thus saves the perpetrator from the usual psychological consequences of direct murder. This methodology was agreed on during the Wannsee conference in 194…
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I wasn’t previously aware of that dimension of the post-war German occupation. War sucks. Thank you for adding context that’s new to me.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is that a counter-argument?
US has a lot of both soft and hard power globally. If you don't treat their puppet state with deference (and do treat it as an outcast), you can face consequences. The current US admin is using this as a stick against its own citizens, even.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Two years later after several ceasefires have been broken, only one chooses to continue the famine and the war.
yes. "Hamas military leader in Gaza objects to ceasefire plan, BBC understands" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c708v2q5r09o
You call this breaking a ceasefire?