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“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel, everything is closed,” Gallant said. “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”

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    1 year ago

    You do realize that Israel withdrew completely from.Gaza in 2005, right? They haven’t occupied any land in the area for almost 20 years.

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      1 year ago

      You left out the part where they put them under siege and control the influx of water, fuel, electricity, goods, and people.

      So they haven’t occupied them, they have just put them in an open air prison.

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        1 year ago

        It’s the sort of thing that happens if you keep attacking your neighbors. Hells, not even Egypt wants anything to do with the Hamas gov:t in Gaza. That’s how bad it is.

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          1 year ago

          You still are leaving out the part where Israel is the one controlling the siege. Things with Egypt are politics. The checkpoint there under Egypt’s current government has been “open” (as open as it gets in this situation), which still doesn’t mean much and you can’t get anything through.

          These people are under a blockade, completely controlled by Israel, with their own neighbours betraying them.

          How Egypt and Israel feel about the Hamas gov’t does not justify holding 2 million people hostage with no water or fuel or electricity.

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            1 year ago

            Regardless of what we feel is justified or not, that is what war is - hell for everybody involved. Let’s just hope that this doesn’t get drawn out.