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It is extremely coincidental the director of UNRWA announced they terminated the employment of 9 employees during the ICJ hearing.

Almost like he was trying to bury the news.

Best of luck! You can do it!

Thank you!

Around 20% of the kids asked for seconds, so not as popular as a plain chocolate box cake with chocolate ganache frosting, but I'm proud of it.

I'm honestly excited to try out different flavors for the frosting.

Condensed milk whipped into the butter. I was legit surprised how close the taste was.

Honestly, the dried strawberries were hella expensive. I'm planning on doing a syrup next time. I'm thinking something like a small box of strawberries reduced and then through a blender, and drop some of the condensed milk to compensate for the extra liquid.

Sounds like Hamas gave their answer:

At least 10 rockets fired from Gaza toward central Israel, no injuries reported

Cynical take: maybe don't employ terrorists

Real take: UNRWA staffers will be busy scrubbing their socials for the next week instead of actually handing out aid. Of course, they aren't exactly distributing the aid anyways so I guess it will make fuckall difference. They'll complain about it and blame all their troubles on it anyways. Bottom line is that aid won't get to the people who need it until Hamas stops preventing it from reaching those in need.

Except immediate access to the means isn't actually part of it. They attempted to ethnically cleanse the area around Gaza, and publicly stated that one of their goals with the rocket fire was to empty the city of Ashkelon. They don't get a pass because they failed to fully succeed.

Fourth.

The UN shouldn't be employing genocidal terrorists.

I wonder how long it will take for Israel to file a countersuit against Palestine for their failure to prevent genocidal statements.

There's plenty of room to have the ICJ force the UN to designate Hamas, PFLP, PIJ, Hezbollah, and others as genocidal terrorist organizations that cannot receive any UN funding or have their members employed by the UN. UNRWA would have to fire half their employees, but that's not a bad thing.

Don't underestimate people who have a vested interest in one side of a story and are willing to sacrifice anything to push that agenda.

That and the danger that a group will take their status and abuse it to push a particular agenda despite evidence to the contrary. At that point they're not fact checking - they're actively pushing disinformation.

There's a long cut, and the camera zooms in on them before the shots. It's pretty easy to spot that there's context that is missing.

It's probably 50-50 if that context would change anything in reality, but the fact it's missing could mean anything from the cameraman just getting more background footage to the group putting away their firearms after taking potshots at soldiers. Most likely, it's somewhere in between all that and they were warned verbally to turn around.

I’ll definitely need a source for that

Literally google maps and wikipedia. Most of them are 100-200 people only. I exclude the areas past the 232 road because fewer than 5% of all Hamas allied deployments reached there.

I probably missed a few, and that's all since October 6th.

I also intentionally only included the ones they can't possibly say "this is a individual soldier or group of soldiers acting on their own initiative".

On October 7th, Hamas and PIJ militants attacked 20+ civilian communities and killed over 10% of the civilian population of the entire region with the explicit purpose of ethnically cleansing the area, along with thousands of rockets targeting civilian population centers across Israel.

The civilian casualties in Gaza are a very sad fact of combat in a densely populated urban area, and are not being intentionally targeted by Israel alongside explicit declarations and very public military orders that "civilians are not to be targeted". So far, around 1% of the civilian population of Gaza has been killed.

So yeah, very different. They are the awful realities of war. Some of them are likely avoidable, but a large number of them are not, especially given Hamas' tactics and doctrine of embedding within civilian populations.

Here's the short list of Hamas' war crimes that are part of their regular military doctrine:

• Indirect fire that intentionally targets civilians
• Indirect fire that intentionally targets protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
• Conducting indirect fire from within protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
• Taking civilian hostages
• Intentionally targeting civilian population due to their nationality and/or religion
• The systemic use of child soldiers
• Coordination and housing of military efforts from within protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
• Manufacturing weapons within protected infrastructure - medical , educational, and scientific
• The use of medical transport to convey military forces during a military operation for operational purposes and not medical ones
• Incitement to genocide
• Incentivizing war crimes by paying larger pensions to their members (and their families) who commit atrocities

These are the things they have done so much that it is clearly part of their military doctrine and policies, and not even remotely defensible as "one off" behavior of irregular forces.

The actual press transcript in case you really don't trust JNS:

https://press.un.org/en/2024/db240117.doc.hhtm

And the UNRWA statements in the past regarding tunnels under its facilities:

• 2022 statement by UNRWA complaining about tunnels under its facilities
• 2021 statement by UNRWA complaining about tunnels under its facilities
• 2017 statement by UNRWA complaining about tunnels under its facilities

From the article:

She told Cooper that while her family had become separated in the chaos of the attacks, the four of them had been reunited in captivity when militants hid them alongside dozens of other hostages being held at Nasser hospital in southern Gaza.

In an account that potentially backs up US and Israeli assessments that hospitals were used to shelter hostages, Aloni Cunio said there were three rooms at Nasser hospital each holding between 10 and 12 captives and that they were tended to by a male nurse every other day. “He knew who we are, he went along with it,” she said.

Hamas has been operating from within Nasser hospital very recently, so if they've managed to close off the tunnels they might even be able to rescue some hostages.

TCP Selective Ack is very much a thing, but it does take extra memory so lots of TCP stacks exclude it or disable it by default.

Official press release

Notably, the EU has sanctioned Hamas already:

9. ‘Hamas’, including ‘Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem’.

Now if only the UN would follow suit and also recognize Hamas' terrorist status. That would force UNRWA to clean house and maybe some of the food going into Gaza might actually reach the people who need it.