The Gaza director for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says the average Palestinian in Gaza is living on two pieces of Arabic bread made from flour that the U.N. had stockpiled in the region.

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    1 year ago

    As a reminder, Hamas has plenty of food. Is it unreasonable to ask them to release that food to the people of Gaza?

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      1 year ago

      It’s far more reasonable to ask Israel to allow the people of Gaza to have food. Israel, unlike Hamas, has enough for everyone.

      It is, in fact, unreasonable to ask Hamas to somehow feed the entire population of Gaza. Hamas has enough for a few months for a few thousand people, Gaza is several orders of magnitude larger and they don’t have enough for everyone to last more than a day or two. Then, once the food was entirely gone, Israel would roll over them with zero resistance because the fighters are starving.

      Place the blame where it belongs: the genocidal settler-occupation regime.

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      Before the war broke off, Gaza is already impoverished by the blockade of Israel. Before the war broke off, the unemployment rate is 46.6%. Before the war broke off, Gaza heavily relied on foreign aid to make it through.

      Hamas has plenty of food enough for their fighter, they did not have plenty of food enough for the whole nation.

      If you believe Hamas failed their own people, then there’s no reason to block or hinder humanitarian aid to help the people, because charity is the failure of the government’s responsibility. Israel make it even harder for charity to work.

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like an Israeli talking point. Show us the sources for your claims?

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      1 year ago

      Is it unreasonable to stop the collective punishment of a million children?

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      Why are you expecting a terrorist group to do something like that? Weird thing to expect. It’s more reasonable to expect the actual sovereign country to stop starving hundreds of thousands of people.

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      1 year ago

      Shit man so does Putin, go ask him for some you got this down, you built the most diffrent, Why you not solve all these probems on your own with your rugged individualism -as a reminder- .