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[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

A reminder:

Palestinians are awesome!

The genocidal regime that rules over Gaza who murder innocent people while blocking Palestinian democracy is NOT AWESOME!

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

What about all the Palestinians internationally that are currently celebrating that massacre?

[-] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 1 points 11 months ago

Probably the same as all the Jewish and Christian people internationally that celebrate and monetarily and militarily support the Israeli apartheid regime even as they would kill innocents, cut off water and supplies, and kill journalists. ESH.

[-] BubblyMango@lemmy.wtf -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Palestinian citizens are given supplies by the IDF. I always found accusations of cutting supplies to citizens very uninformed.

[-] DarthBueller@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

People also conveniently ignore that the Palestinians have been getting Israeli and international aid for decades that was supposed to go into building infrastructure like power plants and water treatment facilities. Instead the money went straight into the pockets of the Fatah/PLO and Israel up to this very day has been supplying power and water to Gaza and West Bank. The Palestinian leadership was corrupt as fuck.

[-] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/11/the-occupation-of-water/

In November 1967 the Israeli authorities issued Military Order 158, which stated that Palestinians could not construct any new water installation without first obtaining a permit from the Israeli army. Since then, the extraction of water from any new source or the development of any new water infrastructure would require permits from Israel, which are near impossible to obtain. Palestinians living under Israel’s military occupation continue to suffer the devastating consequences of this order until today. They are unable to drill new water wells, install pumps or deepen existing wells, in addition to being denied access to the Jordan River and fresh water springs. Israel even controls the collection of rain water throughout most of the West Bank, and rainwater harvesting cisterns owned by Palestinian communities are often destroyed by the Israeli army. As a result, some 180 Palestinian communities in rural areas in the occupied West Bank have no access to running water, according to OCHA. Even in towns and villages which are connected to the water network, the taps often run dry.

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In Gaza, some 90-95 per cent of the water supply is contaminated and unfit for human consumption. Israel does not allow water to be transferred from the West Bank to Gaza, and Gaza’s only fresh water resource, the Coastal Aquifer, is insufficient for the needs of the population and is being increasingly depleted by over-extraction and contaminated by sewage and seawater infiltration.

The resulting disparity in access to water between Israelis and Palestinians is truly staggering. Water consumption by Israelis is at least four times that of Palestinians living in the OPT. Palestinians consume on average 73 litres of water a day per person, which is well below the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended daily minimum of 100 litres per capita. In many herding communities in the West Bank, the water consumption for thousands of Palestinians is as low as 20 litres per person a day, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). By contrast, an average Israeli consumes approximately 300 litres of water a day.

[-] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Obviously not awesome but easy to explain. I assume that being Palestinian gives them a certain - very one sided perspective on the conflict because they probably perceive Israel as an evil colonialist terror State that has been oppressing and killing them for decades.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Try being gay or trans in Gaza. And see how awesome cool 😎 the Palestinians are.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Mass genocide is OK as long as they're homophobic.

Because oppressing a people makes them more progressive and not less.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

We gay people must provide the palestinians with clean drinking water, and this will change hearts and minds 🏳️‍⚧️🙆‍♀️

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

No it won't. You'll be stoned for being gay just the same.

[-] AreaSIX@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Try being a Palestinian in Gaza and see how awesome and cool Israel is. Being pro gay doesn't change who's the oppressor and who is oppressed.

this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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