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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Israel's military suggested on Tuesday that the United Nations ask Hamas for fuel supplies after the U.N. agency providing aid to Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip warned it would have to halt operations on Wednesday night if no fuel was delivered.

The agency, known as UNRWA, posted its warning on social media on Tuesday. The Israel Defense Forces reposted it and said that Hamas militants have more than 500,000 litres of fuel in tanks inside besieged Gaza.

"Ask Hamas if you can have some," the IDF wrote.

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[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 7 points 11 months ago

A Napoleonic era artillery barrages could flatten Gaza in a couple of weeks. They're clearly not attempting to genocide all Gazans. To believe that requirea the belief that the IDF is the most incompetent military force to ever walk the planet.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

They're not attempting to kill them all, but 1.4 million people have been displaced. And they want them to flee northern Gaza, and historically land in these cases is not returned to Palestinians.

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 4 points 11 months ago

That's a fair concern. But this happened in 2008, 2012 and 2014 where mass amounts of Gazan were told to flee certain areas (granted not this massive) and after their ground operations Israel retreated back across the border.

[-] cman6@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I would argue this is still genocide, just not at a rapid rate:

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-releases/starvation-as-weapon-of-war-being-used-against-gaza-civilians/

2.2 million people are unable to access a consistent supply of food!

[-] mwguy@infosec.pub 0 points 10 months ago

And that's the fault of their government who started a war. In no other conflict, has there been the expectation that in a war between parties A and B, that A feed, clothe and care for the civilians in party Bs territory that party B militarily controls.

2.2 million people are unable to access a consistent supply of food!

And that is the fault of Hamas for not properly preparing for this war they started. They had the initiative, they could have stockpiled the basic goods it's civilians would need. They chose not to.

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