The US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using existing roads and entry points.
  • eatthecake@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    If this was meant to distract people from the fact that Israel is stopping aid getting into Gaza then it’s not working. More the reverse I think.

  • rayyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    So, why don’t we wait a couple of weeks and see if it is a distraction, or not? The US is currently air dropping and attempting to truck food in but it is not enough, hence the pier. Don’t think for one minute Putin’s trolls aren’t trying to capitalize on this.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      When have America attempted food truck aid?

      So, why don’t we wait a couple of weeks

      Good idea tell the Palestinians to live on photosynthesis for two months while Biden buys time for Netanyahu to Genocide more.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      Uh… People are dying now. Now it’s infants and children, soon it’ll be more children (the infants will’ve all died) and old people, then the adults will be next. And we’re talking actual starvation; people have been dying of malnutrition-induced illness for some time now. By the time those “couple of weeks” pass half of Gaza will be dead.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    "The US plan for a temporary pier in Gaza to increase the flow of humanitarian aid is a glaring distraction from the real problem: Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate military campaign and punishing siege.** The food, water, and medical supplies so desperately needed by people in Gaza are sitting just across the border**. Israel needs to facilitate rather than block the flow of supplies.** This is not a logistics problem; it is a political problem.** Rather than look to the US military to build a work-around, the US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using the roads and entry points that already exist.

    In the past months, the US has vetoed three UN Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire—which is the only way to ensure a real scale up in emergency assistance. We reiterate our call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire to stop the killing of thousands more civilians and allow for the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid."