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muriel_volestrangler

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52. Bollocks.

Reply to Beastly Boy (Reply #49)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 05:52 PM

12 hrs ago

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

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Virtually no aid has reached besieged north Gaza in 40 days, UN says [View all] muriel_volestrangler 21 hrs ago OP

Bibi wants money, but wants roadblocks to getting Palestinians aid. Omnipresent 21 hrs ago #1

I'd think Palestinian leadership should be questioned jimfields33 21 hrs ago #2

Can they hear the questions around the explosions and ambulance sirens? Omnipresent 21 hrs ago #3

Yes they can. Even from Turkey, or Qatar, or from wherever they are hiding. Beastly Boy 15 hrs ago #24

What are you trying to say? Omnipresent 10 hrs ago #55

I am trying to answer your question. Beastly Boy 9 hrs ago #57

You can't send in aid from the West Bank without getting past the Israeli soldiers muriel_volestrangler 21 hrs ago #4

The convoys are getting past Israeli soldiers allright! They are being left undelivered and looted Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #27

Except that is not what news reports say. For instance, the one in the OP. (nt) muriel_volestrangler 14 hrs ago #31

Don't believe your lyin eyes Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #35

The Kerem Shalom crossing is in southern Gaza muriel_volestrangler 14 hrs ago #37

"Order-enforcing replacements". What a pretty euphemism! Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #42

Not a euphemism. As Haaretz wrote, muriel_volestrangler 13 hrs ago #46

What made them "local police", other than the guns? Beastly Boy 13 hrs ago #49

Bollocks. muriel_volestrangler 12 hrs ago #52

Who identified them as police, and on what grounds? Beastly Boy 11 hrs ago #53

Where would they get supplies to take care of people? womanofthehills 20 hrs ago #14

On the Gaza side of the border. Tons of supplies are stuck in Gaza and remain undelivered Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #29

The warehouses under Israeli control? muriel_volestrangler 14 hrs ago #34

Bernie is working on part of that - womanofthehills 21 hrs ago #9

Hello Israel supporters, this is not OK!! AloeVera 21 hrs ago #5

I understand. But they've been saying that Gaza is in the jimfields33 21 hrs ago #7

Trucks are often blocked at border womanofthehills 21 hrs ago #10

Hamas is just terrible. jimfields33 21 hrs ago #11

But you fail to mention Israel drones womanofthehills 20 hrs ago #16

Israel is supplying the food. Would be weird for them to destroy it. jimfields33 19 hrs ago #19

Israel doesn't supply the food. The UN does. NGOs do. Israel then decides if they block it or not. muriel_volestrangler 19 hrs ago #22

It is not Hamas, it is criminal gangs looting right under the IDF's noses. AloeVera 19 hrs ago #23

Yes, more questions. Imagine IDF interfering with the looting in any way. Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #39

So they shoot at Palestinian policemen trying to prevent the looting instead? N/T. AloeVera 14 hrs ago #40

Yes. Yes they do. Look up the rules governing enemy combatants in the Geneva Conventions. Beastly Boy 13 hrs ago #45

I don't think the 2 sides went to the aid trucks hand-in-hand. AloeVera 13 hrs ago #48

Regardless of what you think, Beastly Boy 13 hrs ago #50

You can have all the trucks in the world but if they deny the request for the access it does no good. moniss 20 hrs ago #13

Now drones are destroying the aid womanofthehills 20 hrs ago #15

Pure sadistic barbarism. AloeVera 20 hrs ago #18

It's a land grab by genocide Avalon Sparks 15 hrs ago #25

Thank you, kindred spirit. AloeVera 14 hrs ago #30

We truly are Avalon Sparks 8 hrs ago #59

Whose drones? Where? Link please! Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #33

No, I don't think you understand. AloeVera 19 hrs ago #21

The same people who say it is pure evil for Israel to not take charge of aid deliveries in Gaza, also say Beastly Boy 8 hrs ago #58

Hello Israel detractor, tons of supplies are siring on the Gazan side of the border Beastly Boy 14 hrs ago #32

The BBC really left a lot out in this article Mosby 21 hrs ago #6

Horrible. They were voted in to take care of their population jimfields33 21 hrs ago #8

Wow! And you read this where? womanofthehills 20 hrs ago #17

Still doesn't excuse the Palestinian government from negligence. jimfields33 19 hrs ago #20

It's criminal gangs allowed to loot by the IDF. AloeVera 14 hrs ago #38

That was in central and southern Gaza, not northern, so it's not the story the BBC was reporting muriel_volestrangler 21 hrs ago #12

Holocaust Survivor: "Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. We've got to fight back." C0RI0LANUS 14 hrs ago #26

Sanders is a non practicing Jew who doesn't represent Jews. JohnSJ 14 hrs ago #36

When the sociopath takes over I wonder what will happen? JohnSJ 14 hrs ago #28

After 13 months you're still wondering what happens when a sociopath is given free rein?? AloeVera 14 hrs ago #41

If hamas didn't provide the catalyst of October 7, this would NOT have happened. In addition, the actions of hamas JohnSJ 13 hrs ago #43

Nice try. N/T AloeVera 13 hrs ago #44

Nice try about what? Hamas has all but insured that netanyahu will not be leaving anytime soon. JohnSJ 13 hrs ago #47

US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) represents human beings and ran for President of the United States. C0RI0LANUS 12 hrs ago #51

Very interesting. Bernie represents human beings. Beastly Boy 9 hrs ago #56

Man's inhumanity to man in full display. I've been to Israel seven times and I'm never going back. C0RI0LANUS 11 hrs ago #54