Gaza hospitals ceasing to function as water and fuel run out
Gaza hospitals ceasing to function as water and fuel run out
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Gaza hospitals ceasing to function as water and fuel run out
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What an absolute nightmare. Those poor people are caught in the middle of a conflict they can do nothing about. It’s horrific.
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I find it both horrifying and nauseating at the same time. This makes me sad to be a human being.
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This makes me sad to be a human being.
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Wait until you realize how many species we've driven to extinction, and how many more we have yet to kill, before we kill ourselves due to runaway climate collapse. That's the shit that makes me sad to be human.
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Human beings are just about the worst thing to happen to this planet.
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Further proof Hamas terrorists hate Gazan Palestinians as much as they hate everyone else.
*People are downvoting because they refuse to admit Hamas terrorists use Palestinians as shields only; without a care for civilian safety as a tool to protect themselves.
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This is the thing. Palestinians aren't treated as humans, but as tool or a weapon.
Even the countries that supposedly support Palestine, not a single of them offers to take refugees.
The truth is they hate Palestinians too (wrong Muslim sect) they just hate Jews a little bit more than them, but they have no problem if both kill each other.
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WTF are you talking about?
Those countries don't offer to take them in because they will not be let back after this is over.
The majority of Palestinians are sunni, and even if they weren't, that never really mattered to any country besides Iran.
And the countries of the Levant are known for being very secular, unlike Isn'trael.
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What do you mean? The majority of palestinian are sunni muslim like the majority of arab countries and the vast majority of palestinian refugees outside of palestinian territory/israel are in the neighboring arab countries (albeit in horrible living conditions in refugee camps most of the time).
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wrong Muslim sect
Where did you pick up that idea? Most Palestinians are Sunni just like their neighbours.
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wrong Muslim sect
There's a bit of that but only as far as Lebanon is concerned, because Hezbollah is Shia and Palestinian Muslims (and especially Hamas) are mostly Sunni and there will likely be a fight for power between Hezbollah and Hamas if the latter ever infiltrate Lebanon, because for the past 13 centuries there has never been peace on the same soil between Shia and Sunni armed groups, which is why Lebanon is not opening its doors to Palestinians.
With regards to Egypt, sect isn't really the issue as both are Sunni. However, the military that is ruling Egypt has a very rough history with the Muslim Brotherhood (which was very violent back then, almost nothing to do with Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood) from which Hamas was born, so they likely don't want Hamas terrorists infiltrating Egypt either.
So neither Egypt nor Lebanon want Palestinians as they're placing their security and more importantly their political interests above Palestinian lives.
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even if that was true, the other side could just stop hitting the shield all the time and do precise targeting.
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It's true.
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Why will none of the Arab countries provide shelter for refugees and help them? They are vocal about how horrible the situation is and have the ability to assist by taking in refugees, but do nothing except make sure it goes on and gets worse.
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Yeah, why don't the Palestinians give up and just accept being ethnically cleansed? I mean, they're Arabs why don't they just move in with the other Arabs, they're all one big homogeneous group, right?
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Civilians taking refuge away from a war zone is not being ethnically cleansed. FFS. Regardless of whether you think children should be stuck in a warzone,for whatever sick reason, I'd like to see the civilians evacuated.
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Somewhat ironically, the biggest impediment is Hamas mission to genocide the Jews.
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@rivermonster most of them are not vocal about it right now. Many of them have normalised relations with Israel in the last few years.
They also hold the belief that allowing Israel to chase all the Palestinians out of Palestine and grab the land would be the end of the Two State Solution, turning the latter into permanent refugees.
In practical terms given Israel's blockades the only country in a position to take them is Egypt.
- Egypt already hosts 9 million refugees, taking another 2 million would be politically unpopular with voters.
- Egypt is also afraid of ending up in a border war with Israel (which would happen if any of the new refugees attacked Israel).
- Egypt also wants the Two State Solution
Here is an article that might interest you: Why Egypt Won't Open The Border To Its Palestinian Neighbours
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Other nations absolutely could petition to take them in and should. They could, at the very least, petioon Israel to allow them to provide refuge, but they dont bc they like things the way they are. I understand why, including it being politically advantageous for all of them and unstable governments, and nobody wants the terrorists hiding among the civilians.
That's rather rhe point, Israel can't commit its war crimes without the assistance of Egypt, and honestly the all the other Arab nations who clutch their pearls. It's so upsetting to see so many horrible and disingenuous actors in this from the Bibi/Hamas alliance (and theynare bed fellows) to Egypt and the rest of the nations who could help but instead clutch at their pearls and feign outrage.
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The people who will leave Gaza are never gonna be let back in. The neighboring Arabic countries already have lots of Palestinian refugees.
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I definitely don't think any land is worth the deaths of civilians while Hamas uses them as shields for their terrorism and war crimes, and Isreal commits war crimes of collective punishment, etc.
Letting kids and civilians die in an active warzone is madness. I condemn the partnership of Bibi and Hamas (who've been bedfellows since they first got him elected) and just want to save civilians and prevent more atrocities.
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Jordan won't take them because the Palestinians assassinated their king, created a civil war in Jordan, and tried to assassinate their next king.
Lebanon won't take them because they keep joining Hezbollah.
Egypt won't take them because they keep joining up with Muslim Brotherhood and trying to destabilize the government.
Syria won't take them because they're in the middle of a civil war.
Iran won't take them because they're more useful as a tool to destabilize Israel.Am I missing anyone?
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Because the neighboring countries did that in the past in various forms and it fucked them all up in some manner. These are not normal people. They're twisted by decades of living under war or terrorist rule. Their population is so young because everyone old died that half the people alive never actually experienced a stable life. They know nothing but this. As a result they are really hard to integrate.
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Because then they risk becoming the target of what Israel buys with the 50 billion dollars Joe Biden just sent to them.
Edit: if to of
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Hamas hasn't yet released the fuel they've been hoarding?
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Have they been hoarding it in the hospital?
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Hamas really really fucked up this time.
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You realize that this is the EXACT outcome they would have expected right? You think Hamas expected Israel to surrender to paragliders? This was what they WANTED to happen. Now the whole world is watching Israel losing their shit on civilians and their international support is crumbling all around them. Hamas doesn't give a shit about the palestinian people, but they do care about getting Israel into a position to be openly attacked by its Arab neighbors without the US and Europe coming in to fight on their behalf. It looks like that plan is actually going pretty well.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hospitals in Gaza are ceasing to function because they are running out of water and fuel for generators, while being overwhelmed by huge numbers of casualties and civilians seeking shelter from Israeli bombing.
No new fuel has been allowed into Gaza since the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, starving hospital generators as well as the desalination and pumping plant essential to the water system.
Video posted on Tuesday showed the Indonesian hospital in north Gaza in total blackout after the generators failed, with the sole illumination from mobile phones.
Tanya Haj-Hassan, a Canadian-based paediatric intensive care and humanitarian doctor who helps run a western support network for Gaza health workers, said a third of hospitals in the territory had ceased to function.
Another member of the western support group, Omar Abdel-Mannan, a senior paediatric neurology resident at Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London, said: “Doctors on the ground are using minimal anaesthesia so they can economise on it.”
Medical experts from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited hospitals in Gaza on Tuesday and confirmed the dire reports from doctors on the ground.
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Blame the world's leader and the people that think they should be supporting them.
Take matters into your own hands. Change is now if you make the change. Live for reality and not tradition. Bring on the war.
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If concessions can not be made to save these lives even with the entire world watching, then I do not want to hear falsehoods about caring for human rights.
I've been very cautious to reserve the word "Genocide" because I didn't want to devalue it with hyperbole. For years, I've said that Israel is ethnically cleansing historic Palestine. But reading this article... I think this is the point where it becomes genocide, full and proper.
It's shocking to bear witness to.
By the UN definition, it's been genocide for a long fucking time
And Biden, Blinken, etc have lashed themselves to the mast next to Netanyahu and Likud, promising a blank check no matter what.
Usually I'm OK with Biden (I think the way he handled Ukraine was pretty damn good) but this is a disastrous decision on our part.
It is genocide either way by definition. Whether it's cultural or straight murder.