Now is the time for all Americans to come together, to defund Israel.

on why they are not taking care of their populous.

Was there ever any doubt about it?

Yes, the Hamas leaders can hear the questions around the explosions and ambulance sirens. Even from Qatar and Turkey, wherever they might find themselves at any particular time.

Explosions and ambulance sirens do not affect their hearing. If they don’t address the questions, it is not because their hearing is impeded. It is by choice.

Did this really require an explanation?

The siege is by Israel.

once they get past the Israeli soldiers.

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and the Israeli siege is around northern Gaza, as the OP says. Plus the distribution problems from the Israeli-controlled depots are due to the lawlessness in southern Gaza, caused by the Israeli attacks on Hamas or any order-enforcing replacements (and no attempt by the Israelis themselves), as #23 says.

Looting humanitarian aid is a racket. It used to belong exclusively to Hamas, and now they have to compete with other “order replacers”. That’s the only thing that changed.

"In several cases, they add, the last remnants of the local police forces tried to take action against the looters, but were attacked by Israeli troops, who view them as part of Hamas."
The point is that the IDF is not enforcing order; it is preventing others doing it.

It is not only the IDF that rightfully views them as enemy combatants, but the Geneva Conventions, on which the IDF view is based.

The Geneva Conventions do not classify police in an occupied territory as "enemy combatants".

And what does “local police” mean anyway? What local authorities designated or employed them as police, and what identifying insignia were produced to IDF before they started shooting?

Absent the visible insignia, the Geneva Conventions do not classify armed men as police. The Geneva Conventions consider them enemy combatants.

It gets worse day by day. Millions living in tents - now getting colder - and raining- videos of soaked cold kids living in tents - many with missing arms & legs -- all their rugs and belongings soaked. No place to even sleep - sewage running down streets. Where is the compassion? Now over 100,000 injured mostly kids and mostly kids now with no arms or legs. Most kid amputees of anywhere in world. American Dr treating children said they are constantly amputating kids feet - many kids walking barefoot because they no longer have shoes - they cut their feet - no antibiotics so their feet get horribly infected - drs have nothing to treat with so they amputate kids feet. Thousands of images on X of little kids with no arms or legs. Little armless boys playing in surf on stump legs. Compassion people!

I just got a tooth pulled and I’m miserable - I can’t even imagine their pain. Toddlers getting their feet cut off with no sedation and often mother & fatherless. Compassion please and support Bernie in his fight for no more weapons.

See reply #23.

Senator Peter Welch

My full remarks in support of @SenSanders' resolution to block the sale of certain offensive weapons to Israel.

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No matter how much you may love Israel, or be an Israel supporter, surely even you can see this is NOT OK!!??

It's a deliberate, systematic campaign of starvation - medieval in its cruelty.

And fwiw, strongly-worded letters mean nothing if the threats are not enforced and your own laws are ignored. There is a word for that. A few, actually.

mist of a famine. But there are so much aid ready to be given out. I’d love to know whose responsibility it is to hand out the food.

And truck drivers attacked. Videos online of truck drivers being beaten. A load of food and supplies was delivered to a school a few days ago and then all the aid destroyed by a drone.

Wasting food by destroying it seems dumb.

Destroying food after delivery.

Next day’s headlines: “An emergency session of UNGA passes a resolution condemning Israel for denyingGazan civilians access to international humanitarian aid”.

It happened before. More than once.

Speaking of which, what was the identifying insignia on the armed man in question? Other than a weapon in his hands, that is. What made him a policeman rather than a terrorist who intends to appropriate the loot for Hamas?

Generally a crime preceedes police intervention. So...you see where I'm going.

I didn't think policemen were "enemy combatants". But again, neither are civil servants, doctors and journalists, but that hasn't stopped Israel from targeting them as such.

Armed militants are considered enemy combatants unless otherwise identified and authorized to carry arms.

Likewise, civil servants who don’t stick to their civil service and are caught in any activity whatsoever that is harmful to an occupying power lose their protective status. Also in the Geneva Conventions, regardless of what you think

The rejections overall for the last month doubled according to one NGO being interviewed on NPR last week.

Evil - a few days ago, food delivered to school - then all food bombed by a drone - taking out lots of children besides the food.

How can human beings bear this? Not just the victims, God help them, but people watching, either helpless and in despair or shrugging it off and making excuses - victim-blaming even. Do they not see this is planned, deliberate, willful? Going on for over a year, now in hyper-drive.

17 children admitted to hospital in a few short days suffering from malnutrition. How many don't even make it to the ruins of hospitals, where there is little help anyway. An elderly man dying from dehydration for God's sake! Hospitals destroyed, no or little medical aid allowed in.

Pure sadistic barbarism. And it's just allowed to go on because people STILL make excuses and don't speak UP!

And it’s the most barbaric, disgusting, horrifying thing I’ve ever seen happen in my life.

It's the best, most hard-hitting way I've seen it put in 13 months of screaming into the void.

Have agreed with all of your posts. Hugs!

Too much to ask before outrage ensues?

If you did, or wanted to, you wouldn't be asking that question.

In war, the facilitation of aid is the responsibility of the occupying power. International law. It starts with allowing in the aid necessary, then followed by providing SAFE humanitarian corridors - complete with military guards if necessary- to get the aid to distribution centres and then to the people. It means full cooperation with aid agencies.

Instead, Israel is barring 90% of aid-delivery , bombing distribution centres and the roads leading to them, bombing bakeries, has banned UNRWA, the most critical aid agency, refusing to provide IDF-supported security for the trucks, instead allowing criminals to loot them, attacking policemen trying to stop the criminals, and on and on.

The goal here is not just the suffering, but the "cleansing" of north Gaza of Palestinians so that it can be settled with Israeli settlers and annexed (stolen). It's a choice between LEAVE or STARVE.

If you do not see this is all deliberate, systematic, not to mention just plain evil, you don't understand at all.

It is pure evil for Israel to take charge of food deliveries in Gaza.

They say that Israel taking control of food deliveries is tantamount to taking control of Gaza, and that’s pure evil. Genocide, ethnic cleansing, land grab, etc.

They also say that Israel not taking control of aid deliveries in Gaza is tantamount to driving Gazans out of their land by starving them, and that’s pure evil. Genocide, ethnic cleansing, land grab, etc.

The prevalence of one narrative over the other depends entirely on the time of day and where the wind blows, and at times they manage to harmoniously coexist with one another.

Go figure.

Waiting to be picked up, some for over a month.

But Israel!

They don't seem very credible at this point.

In case you haven't heard, armed gunmen (Hamas?) have been attacking aid convoys and stealing everything.

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This is tragic. I knew tons of food was given to Gaza. The leadership needs to give it to its population and not take it for themselves.

Check the videos of starving kids holding out pots crying of hunger. Videos show the truth.

As I said in post #23, with link.

It's the Palestinian policemen who are trying to fight off the criminals and save the aid trucks. In thanks, these policemen are shot at by the IDF while turning a blind eye to the criminals.

Starvation, lawlessness, fear and chaos is the goal. The sooner to "cleanse" north Gaza. It's horrific and shameful.

but if you want to discuss it - the UNWRA tweet:

"A joint 109-truck @UN convoy carrying food supplies to people in #Gaza was violently looted on 16 November. The vast majority of the trucks, 97 in total, were lost and drivers were forced at gunpoint to unload aid.

Due to critical shortages of flour, all eight UN-supported bakeries in Deir al Balah and Khan Younis have been operating at diminished capacity for weeks. Many have been forced to shut down entirely.

Without immediate intervention, severe food shortages are set to worsen, further endangering the lives of over 2 million people who depend on humanitarian aid to survive.

The Israeli authorities continue to disregard their legal obligations under international law to ensure the population's basic needs are met and to facilitate the safe delivery of aid. Such responsibilities continue when trucks enter the #GazaStrip, until people are reached with essential assistance."

Brilliant move by hamas on October 7th, and we will see how brilliant those abandon Harris supporters, and uncommitted voter refusal to vote for Harris works out.

Hamas contributed to the sociopath’s victory, and so did the uncommitted voters.

This could have all been avoided if hamas didn’t execute October 7.

Those professors and protesters cheering what Hamas did on October 7 on the days following, their actions, are not the wisest people, and their actions contributed in giving false hope to Hamas to continue the assault.

N/T

contributed to the sociopath reoccupying the WH.

after 13 months? Yeah, they wouldn't release the hostages nor would they cease hostilities.
Hamas has all but insured that netanyahu will not be leaving anytime soon either.

This isn't the first time that the Palestinian leadership's actions have wrought disaster on the Palestinians.

People can rightfully be upset about the situation, but unless something unforeseen happens, I suspect our election has just sealed the fate of the Palestinians. Just the fact that huckabee has been appointed the ambassador to Israel should tell you what our sociopath intends for the Palestinians.

This isn't the first time that the Palestinian leaderhip;s actions have wrought disaster on the Palestinians.

People can rightfully be upset about the situation, but unless something unforeseen happens, I suspect our election has just sealed the fate of the Palestinians. Just the fact that huckabee has been appointed the ambassador to Israel should tell you what our sociopath intends for the Palestinians.

When one of the protesters shortly after October 7 yelled to the press, "enjoy trump". We'll see how that works out for him, the Palestinians, and us.

I don't think it will be a very pretty picture.

How many human beings? Most human beings? Some human beings? What is so special about human beings represented by Bernie?

Seems like you are leaving a shit-ton of compassionate human beings out of your narrative. And most of them have opinions that likely do not agree with Bernie’s or Renee Lichtman’s

According to Amnesty International, before Oct 2023 the IDF held approximately 2,000 Palestinians in indefinite security detention without trial or hearing like the man below. See full report linked at bottom.


IDF soldiers abusing unarmed and bare-footed Palestinian man in Hebron, the West Bank, who allegedly resisted arrest. Look at the joyful expressions on the faces of the soldiers. Is the man crying out "I can't breathe?" The IDF said this case was "under investigation." (Photo: 22 Sep 2016, Reuters)

With no hope or chance of seeing the release of the 2,000 detainees like the Palestinian pictured above, armed groups conducted their brazen surprise attack on 7 Oct 2023 to seize captives for a prisoner swap. The assault killed 1,200 Israeli citizens and resulted in 250 hostages taken (including several AMCITS). A US 9/11 Commission-style report would gravely damage Likud Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Upon advice of D/Mossad, the Likud Cabinet conducted one such trade in Nov 2023, releasing several innocent Israelis and Palestinians. See CNN report below.

Afterwards, the rightwing Likud cabinet stopped negotiating and "rolled out Nakba 2023" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The exact quote by Likud Minister Avi Dichter is linked below. According to Wikipedia, the Likud reprisal ratio against Palestinians in Gaza for the 7 Oct 2023 attack is almost 40:1.



Likud Security Cabinet member Avi Dichter at the Knesset general assembly in May 2024. He publicly called for Nakba 2023, destroying any chance of a two-state solution. (Photo: Noam Moskowitz / Knesset spokesperson)



See all sources below.

Sources:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-horrifying-cases-of-torture-and-degrading-treatment-of-palestinian-detainees-amid-spike-in-arbitrary-arrests/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/22/world/what-do-we-know-about-the-israel-hamas-hostage-deal/index.html

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-12/ty-article/israeli-security-cabinet-member-calls-north-gaza-evacuation-nakba-2023/0000018b-c2be-dea2-a9bf-d2be7b670000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war