• Chozo@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Because it’s a genocide. The point isn’t to just take out Hamas and say “mission accomplished”, it’s to take out the entirety of Palestine and say “we tried our best to save them”. Hamas has to continue existing in order for Israel to keep justifying every extension to this war.

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      3 months ago

      But then why commit any ground troops at all?

      If they just wanted to wipe out Gaza they’d have done it on Oct 8th. Could hardly take more than an hour.

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        3 months ago

        Because they just might actually find some of the hostages. Also it’s a great way to corral people and aid, and keep them separate.

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          3 months ago

          But they aren’t separate. Gaza is receiving so much aid from Israel they say they’re running out of places to put it.

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            3 months ago

            Yup all of the international reports from NGOs and the UN are wrong. Israel says so, so it must be true right?

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              3 months ago

              Yes! They deliberately omit most of the food aid entering Gaza, to deliberately undercount calories per person. That’s not according to Israel; that’s according to the UN itself.

              That’s why the UN has predicted “mass famine” but it never actually happens.

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                3 months ago

                Are you talking about where they don’t count the food Isrealis turn around?

                And it very much is happening. It’s happening right now and has been happening for months now.

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                  Are you talking about where they don’t count the food Isrealis turn around?

                  No, the food that goes in. The UN analysis deliberately excludes up to 70% of the food aid entering over the Israeli border into Gaza. All told it’s 3500 calories per Gazan per day, since Oct 7 - well shy of “famine”, entirely the opposite.

                  These figures have been verified by independent observers and by the UN.