Israel's military suggested on Tuesday that the United Nations ask Hamas for fuel supplies after the U.N. agency providing aid to Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip warned it would have to halt operations on Wednesday night if no fuel was delivered.

Israel’s military suggested on Tuesday that the United Nations ask Hamas for fuel supplies after the U.N. agency providing aid to Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip warned it would have to halt operations on Wednesday night if no fuel was delivered.

The agency, known as UNRWA, posted its warning on social media on Tuesday. The Israel Defense Forces reposted it and said that Hamas militants have more than 500,000 litres of fuel in tanks inside besieged Gaza.

“Ask Hamas if you can have some,” the IDF wrote.

  • Thrillhouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    267·
    1 year ago

    I feel for the civilians caught in the middle. Now is not the time to be hard headed about asking a terrorist group to do what’s right. Obviously they don’t care and the civilians are being punished too. Being callous about their suffering doesn’t solve the situation… it just feeds into the terrorist narrative.

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          720·
          1 year ago

          They aren’t being ethnically cleansed, but I still don’t think it’s a good time.

          • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
            155·
            1 year ago

            Idk the forcible expulsion of millions of people from their ancestral home seems to fit the definition.

            • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
              413·
              1 year ago

              They not only aren’t expelled, they literally cannot leave because no one will take them in.

              • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
                134·
                1 year ago

                Your position is that Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are not being told to leave their homes or risk being bombed to kingdom come?

                Also how much land did Palestinians hold in 1968 vs today? Just wondering.

                • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  711·
                  1 year ago

                  If your house catches on fire and the fire department tells you to evacuate, you are not being expelled. Gazans can come back north after the military operation. They aren’t even being forced to leave at all - it’s just a really bad idea to stick around where there will be city fighting.

                  Words have actual meanings.

                  Palestinians held zero land in 1968 because they never had any land in the first place. Also you mean 1967, or maybe 1966, if you mean while the area recognized as Palestine when it was currently Egypt and Jordan, respectively.

                  • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
                    85·
                    1 year ago

                    Nice use of the passive voice there. “If your house catches on fire”… and if the “firemen” in your analogy are lighting the fire, doesn’t your analogy break down a bit?

                  • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
                    25·
                    1 year ago

                    Gazans can come back north after the military operation.

                    Historically when things like this happened they weren’t allowed to come back. Israel has done this before (though not to this scale).

          • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
            125·
            1 year ago

            What? Israel has actively stated Gaza’s territory would go down after the war, and there are honest to God pogroms going on right now in the West Bank (as if settlement wasn’t already ethnic cleansing enough).