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Gazans break into aid centres, taking flour and supplies, UN says (www.reuters.com)

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Thousands of Gaza residents broke into warehouses and distribution centres of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) grabbing flour and "basic survival items", the organisation said on Sunday.

"This is a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war and a tight siege on Gaza," the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement.

One of the warehouses, located in Deir al-Balah, is where UNRWA stores supplies from the humanitarian convoys crossing into Gaza from Egypt.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Civilization is 3 missed meals from collapse....

Usually this quote is a warning about preparing for natural disasters, we don't usually have humans trying to design total social collapse on their neighbors.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

I think they're a bit over three meals now, more like 3 weeks worth of meals missed.

[+] tpihkal@lemmy.world -31 points 10 months ago

And yet those neighbors allow the very people that want total social collapse to build tunnels under their homes and businesses and establish bases and torture chambers in their hospitals.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 20 points 10 months ago

Ah yes, because your average Gazan could totally stand up to the armed militia that's in charge of every aspect of life in the strip.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nice Spin, I must have missed the news reports of the total water, food, energy, and medical embargo the Palestinians were inflicting on the Israeli people.

[+] tpihkal@lemmy.world -9 points 10 months ago

Hamas destroyed their infrastructure to build rockets. Literally tore up pipes that were used to supply water to build rockets. The Palestinians are suffering as a direct result of Hamas.

[-] jet@hackertalks.com 20 points 10 months ago

Quite right, the citizens of Gaza have two oppressors right now, Hamas and the IDF... saying the children (50% of Gaza <18) deserve to starve because of guilt by association is also evil.

Collective punishment invites collective reprisals.... magnifies violence. If your ever on the side of killing children your on the wrong side. Which means... there are more then two sides here.

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Okay buddy I’m sure you’d have acted differently when the alternative is getting shot, and you can’t really argue that they’re worse than the israeli government treats you.

[-] sfgifz@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

People were all too happy to give the Russian people a pass when they invaded Ukraine. It wasn't "Russians" who were killing Ukrainians, it was "Putins Russia" that was responsible for this "Putins Invasion". The same kind of narrative is never extended when the parties involved aren't white.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago

There are a good number of logically consistent people out there who defend the Palestinians. I've only been seeing this number increase lately. This is happening despite the media not being logically consistent and pretty much unequivocally supporting the Zionists in Israel.

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works -1 points 10 months ago

How does this argument ever make sense to you? Do you truly consider people to be one monolithic group with no dissenting opinions? The exact same comparison was made, just as now people are saying it’s the Israeli prime ministers actions, which is actually very fair given the amount of israeli citizens showing very natural disdain for the genocide.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago

Did you just try excuse a war crime with "it could be worse"?

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