Food Airdrops Are Falling Short in Gaza
Food Airdrops Are Falling Short in Gaza
Human rights advocates argue that airdrops and maritime routes are an insufficient substitute to aid delivery by land.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17490070
humanitarian organizations, many of which have been sounding alarms about the hunger crisis in Gaza for months, are not impressed. They argue that air and sea deliveries are not only an insufficient substitute for humanitarian aid delivered by land, but a dehumanizing one that acts as a distraction to the man-made barriers that have prevented more aid from getting into Gaza in the first place. “There is no good reason why aid cannot access Gaza by road today,”
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It took over 1,500 flights a day to supply West Berlin during the blockade and that’s with a comparable sized population who weren’t being murdered every day.
A few air drops will never be sufficient.
It's not meant to be sufficient, it is meant to make Biden look like he's doing something other than merely prolonging the slaughter by sending arms to Israel.
Of course, and we need to call that out at every chance.
Gotta call it out at every chance to delegitimize Biden so Trump wins and starts another insurrection.
You’re right, everyone should accept shit because there’s worse. Fuck ever trying for something better.
In the bipartisan system, voting anything anything other than Democrat is voting for fascism.
In reality, excusing genocide is fascism.
You want a genocide? See what happens if Glorious Leader takes power again. He'll turn Gaza into the world's biggest parking lot in two weeks.
That's already happening under Biden champ!
The US isn't the one ethnically cleansing Palestinians. Biden isn't responsible for Israel's actions.
Biden is responsible for shielding their actions from consequences, there is no difference at that point.
it is meant to make Biden look like he’s doing something other than merely prolonging the slaughter by sending arms to Israel.
How does sending arms to Israel prolong the war? It should rather speed up its resolution, I would think?
There is no comparison of the load of a C130 and a WWII era plane. Still, it's not enough, though. A lot of empty stomachs
It took over 1,500 flights a day to supply West Berlin during the blockade and that’s with a comparable sized population who weren’t being murdered every day.
Two million people took ~4,500 tons a day. The C-54 carried 10 tons, meaning that it only required 450 flights per day. Comments like yours are based on the older C-37 and / or the Easter Push where the Allies did a maximum effort run just to flex on the Soviets.
In 2024 a C-130 Hercules has a max payload of 21 tons, over double the C-54, meaning that required flights would potentially be reduced to 225.
Then you have to consider that Operation Vittles was also delivering COAL, something that the citizens of Gaza probably don't need.
200 flights a day would do it but that still doesn't excuse Israel for preventing aid via land routes.
That was USA's ally. They weren't being supplied out of goodwill.