As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies
As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies
So cutting of food and water doesnt even hurt Hamas it's just to be cruel to civilians?
Historically besieged armies didn't starve their own citizens, everyone starved.
Yes, but the civilians starved before the army did. That's what we're seeing here.
From the total war doctrine, it does hurt Hamas, putting pressure on the civil government will hurt the ability to conduct war.
Their used to be a theory that you could break the fighting spirit of a people with embargos and bombings, but it fell out of favor in wwii.
Yep.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hamas has hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel for vehicles and rockets; caches of ammunition, explosives and materials to make more; and stockpiles of food, water and medicine, the officials said.
The Arab and Western officials who described Hamas’s supply situation all spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were disclosing information gleaned from human sources, communications intercepts and other streams of intelligence.
While the blockade has left Gaza’s roughly 2 million people scraping by with what little food and water they scrounge up, it does not yet appear to have begun to degrade Hamas’s ability to fight.
Israel has so far refused to allow any fuel to be delivered to Gaza, even as other aid begins to trickle in, leaving much of the enclave without electricity to power hospitals, desalinate or pump water, fire bakers’ ovens and run internet and cellphone services.
The United Nations, which handles the bulk of humanitarian relief work in Gaza, said on Thursday that it “has almost exhausted its fuel reserves and begun to significantly reduce its operations.”
Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, a freed hostage, said that while in captivity she ate the same single meal that Hamas fighters eat every day: pita bread with two kinds of cheese and cucumber.
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You know I somehow doubt this considering hamas didn't mount a permanent offensive of any kind
They literally raided for less than a day and than ran back with hostages. No way they're just sitting on stockpiles of fuel and resources if it couldn't be immediately used, and they were aware that everything was going to get intensely bombed anyway.
Yeah they probably do have stockpiles, but nothing substantial.
Even the article mentions the released hostage who saw them eating the same one meal a day of bread and cheese.
They literally raided for less than a day and than ran back with hostages
That's incorrect - the Israelis continued to capture and kill them inside Israel even a week after the attack. Some of the terrorists came with provisions that were meant to last for a long time, until the area calmed down, and then to launch a second attack from the inside.
Hamas released videos from the tunnels showing stockpiles of weaponry and supplies. The hostages also testified that they showered every other day, while the rest of Gaza is essentially cut from water supply. Those water had to come from somewhere.
40% of the people in Gaza are underage. 50% under 20. The IDF is starving and bombing literal children. For days on end. And not since the Al-Aqsa flood either. Way before that.
The muslims get what they accept
Well too bad for you they dont accept the Nakba
Is it just me or does the well-studied victim-play here actually weaken the arguments presented instead of strengthening them?
I know I shouldn't argue with... how do I put this... devoted people like that, but I can't resist....
They think the worlds opinion, who looked the other way while 6 million Jews were chewed up and turned to ash by the Nazi Reich, is going to matter a single fucking bit.
"looked the other way", eh? That's impressive. Because for people who looked the other way, their accuracy was pretty good while they reduced the whole of Germany to ruins in order to stop the Nazi monsters who did this.
I wouldn't even have answered had you not brought up the Nazis (as patriotic people from Israel tend to do). The immeasurable crimes inflicted onto the world by the Nazis is not empowering Israel to lash out like it does. On the contrary. Among the Israeli I know are quite a few that continuously bring up the Shoa with me (I'm German) and now use it to vaguely make up excuses for what happens to the inhabtiants of the Gaza strip.
But shouldn't you of all people, you who are so keen on "keeping the memory alive" rise up immediately when you see how Ghettos in Warsaw and the Gaza strip share all too many similarities?
Shouldn't you of all people know the pain of being prosecuted and down-trodden just because someone decided out of the blue that you belong to the enemy now?
Shouldn't you of all people know the suffering, the hunger, the never ending pain of going without food and water?
Hamas needs to be stopped. Hamas needs to be prosecuted. With all the might you have. Yet, declaring all people in that region to be active Hamas criminals (like you did) is in itself criminal. This habit of dehumanizing whole poplulations out of a victim-mentality is one of the most effective rationales in the toolbox of the one evil you should recoil from copying. It's what Joseph Goebbels was so disgustingly proficient at.
You should talk to a professional about your world view because it's pretty unhealthy.
Are you advocating for the death of all the people of Gaza?
US and European press coverage on Gaza is totally discredited. They just parrot Israeli talking points. Go to Al Jazeera English if you want to know what's going on.
Al Jazeera is a Qatar funded news outlet, and the Qatari government has tight relationship with Hamas. I would take their reports cautiously.
Reuters and AP are the most unbiased it seems, but it's always a good practice to follow multiple outlets - both pro and against each side.
This reads like straight propaganda, its absolutely true Hamas as stockpiles.
Know who else has stock piles of food and water? Isreal, and the UNRWA... hell the UN stockpile is sitting in trucks ready to get to the civilians.
What is the military utility of cutting food and water, then saying ... ohh look at the besieged city, look at how evil the people in the city are not sharing food and water amongst themselves. Know who else isn't sharing Food and Water inside of Israel ? The IDF!
No, it'd be like if we blockaded and bombed Mexico, then complained that their military isn't giving out food to the general population.
The IDF is 100% in control of Gaza, everything that goes in or our is under IDF control. That is why people have called Gaza an open air Prison.
Practically surrounded the castle outside the moat and put the trebuchets to work though.
The IDF may like to think that but the truth is Israel has huge control over water, fuel, and electricity entering. This is why they now managed to turn it off... If Israel didn't have direct control on the food and water these people need, we wouldn't have this goddamn problem.
Also now that Israel has entered, what do you want Hamas to do? I don't support them, but from a practical perspective, should Hamas give away the little fuel it has thtt may enable it to fight the IDF as they invade the strip? Seems to me like they are now the only people protecting civilians there (not super successfully), but still...
And from the Egyptian side news is saying that Israel is the #1 cause of delay on the checkpoint on purpose. Israel has full control over Gaza whether or not they like to admit it.
Will these terrible conditions drive the Palestinians to force their government to release the hostages? I think that is the question that so many people are wondering. I don’t know enough about the crisis to speculate on an answer so I pose the question, what does anyone think it will take for them to release the hostages?
killing uninvolved civilians wont force anyone to release hostages, it is Hamas plan to get more civilians killed which bolsters their mission, recruitment, and global recognition.
Separating the UNRWA from Hamas is pedantic and meaningless at this point. They have been totally co-opted by Hamas.
They cut off their own aid. No country provides aid to the state they are actively at war with. Dozens of aid trucks are indeed entering Gaza from other countries.
Hamas controls the UN? That is a strong position
But sure, lets go with it, Then Hamas has food, water, medicine ready for the civilians in Gaza, waiting in trucks sitting in Egypt waiting to cross. Which is what Israel wants them to do, right? Supply their own citizens....
So, regardless of what happens and what everyone is doing or not doing, it's always Israel's fault?
When you blockade supplies and infrastructure from an entire region of people, most of whom have done nothing wrong, then yes, food shortages are your fault.
The food, water, energy, and medical embargo of the Gazan people are all publicly acknowledged by the Israel Government. So yes... those things are their fault. They proudly claim responsibility.
You’re going to have people that will never see any merit to the other sides position no matter what. You want to know the flat objective truth? Both parties here fucking suck. Both parties are committing war crimes and atrocities. Every retaliation by either side is vehemently defended as justified because of a prior retaliation which was in turn defended because of the retaliation before it. Over and over again.
Global politics being what it is only ensures that no matter what we are going to ride this roller coaster into oblivion and a lot of people are going to have to die for no justifiable reason. Each side is pushing hard to justify their actions and to be presented as the victim. Both sides have decades of experience working the PR front. In 15 years we will be discussing the latest violence in the region.
Pessimistic perhaps, but I’d just say it’s realistic.
Only when it is. Like now.
No, just the times they have broken international law.
Edit: Oh no poor Israel being constantly accused of breaking international law after constantly breaking it ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ