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That's always a risk in parachute operations.
It'd be real cool if Israel stopped blocking aid by land so this wouldn't even be a problem. Or if they stopped the genocide entirely.
It's really not Israel that's the Problem.
The Problem is that Gaza is controlled by a Terrorist Organisation and nobody wants to risk their Trucks / Ships to bring Aid into it, Especially since Hamas uses Food as a means to control its Population and therefore will not be happy about a third party distributing it freely.
Israel has literally been blockading Gaza for decades and massively limits the number of aid shipments it allows into the strip.
After the ICJ ordered Israel to increase the amount of aid it allows into the strip, they instead reduced the number of trucks by a third to barely 100 per day.
For comparison, around 500 trucks per day were entering the strip before Oct 7th.
And you have the balls to say that less than two weeks after over 100 people died after the IDF fired on an aid distribution point.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/israeli-human-rights-groups-icj-gaza-aid-ruling
Fucking horrible. Hopefully more care will be taken for the chutes but honestly those things are looked after pretty carefully and closely to begin with. This is just awful. Blame lies 100% with Israel. If they weren't war criming it up around here and blocking all other paths of aid to the Gazan citizens then this shit wouldn't have happened. A truck doesn't fall on someones head randomly and that package was only dropped because BiBi is Goebbels 2.0. Frothing at the mouth with hatred, bile and bigotry in an attempt to wipe peoples off of the face of the planet in some idiotic bid for purity of the homeland.
You don't think America has any share of the blame for enabling this genocide?
The US is not blameless for what is going on.
However, ultimately Israel is the country that is carrying this out, if people like Netanyahu and his cohorts weren't pushing for this, it wouldn't matter how much money, weapons, and other support the US gave them, this wouldn't be happening.
If the US pulled all support, Israel could and almost definitely would press on with it, probably not as efficiently as they are currently, but still the war would continue. Maybe the US pulling support would lead to a quicker end, maybe it would just drag things out, maybe it would lead to extreme escalation with a desperate Israel choosing to use their nuclear weapons either against Hamas or against other Middle Eastern nations that choose to get involved without the US acting as a deterrent.
The US helped create the circumstances that allowed this to happen, but the fact that it is actually happening is on Israel.
If the US pulled all support, Israel could and almost definitely would press on with it, probably not as efficiently as they are currently, but still the war would continue. Maybe the US pulling support would lead to a quicker end, maybe it would just drag things out, maybe it would lead to extreme escalation with a desperate Israel choosing to use their nuclear weapons either against Hamas or against other Middle Eastern nations that choose to get involved without the US acting as a deterrent.
Yeah just like the previous three times the US threatened to pull support and israel instantly stopped doing war crimes...
People are still under the impression that the army that got completely owned by dudes with water pipe rockets can support a full war without American support? Especially with Hezbollah in the north...
Israel certainly shares the lionshare of the blame. But had Hamas not launched the attack on Israel, where they too killed women and children, this wouldn't be happening. So you have to give them some of the blame in this shit show too.
Only a racist sociopath would kill the perp's familiy, friends and neighbours as reprisal and these guys have openly admitted it's reprisals.
The kind of talk they use, like blaming Palestinians as a whole for Hamas' actions, calling Palestinians (not Hamas, Palestinians) violent and even calling them "human animals" just further confirms the racist sociopathy of the Israeli leadership and those whom support them.
It's not by chance that people are now calling them Nazis: it's the same cold calous murdering along etnic lines and even the same style of dehumanizing discourse and excuses as the Nazis.
All this was already going on as a slow burn before Hamas' attack, one act of settler/army violent theft and murder at a time, low key enough that outsiders couldn't quite tell it for what it was (good old Lebensraum), but now it's a full fire, visible to all.
They've always been Nazis, but now they're going for making their very own Holocaust.
too killed women and children
Frequently this shit is said I always wonder, are women equivalent to children, is it okay to kill men, or both?
Historically I think it's because women were almost universally noncombatants, but Israel has compulsory service for everyone. It seems like an anachronistic distinction.