Absolute cult-like blindness. “I’m sure the journalists and hospital directors who are starving to death are just unwilling to fight hard enough for food for their families”. The truth is not likely to be anywhere in the middle, because you are swallowing IDF propaganda wholesale.
If “Israel” didn’t benefit from starvation in Gaza then “they” wouldn’t be directly causing starvation in Gaza. You’re going to say “but because hamas blah blah”, but it doesn’t matter. Israel is the one holding trucks of food outside a starvation zone, because they (and you, apparently) think that the benefits of doing so are worth the costs of perpetrating genocide.
I'm not blind to the realities of Israel having blocked some aid and the realities of living in a war zone. I'm sure the Palestinians are suffering and I wouldn't want to live in Gaza these days. Israel will and is exerting the maximum possible pressure. However it is not starving the population.
You are blind to the Hamas' control of the narrative coming out of Gaza. You are also blind to the Hamas' ability to impact the situation and to their absolute control of any word coming out of the mouth of a "hospital director" or a "journalist" who are either Hamas or operating under the threat of death, torture, and violence to themselves and their families if they don't say what they're asked to say.
The article is an interview with: "David Satterfield, who served during early months of war, says dangerous transport routes, looting by desperate Palestinians severely hinder ability to pick up and deliver aid"
... "UN trucks repeatedly looted, including by thousands of desperate Palestinians, unsure when they and their families will receive their next meal."
"UN trucks repeatedly looted, including by thousands of desperate Palestinians, unsure when they and their families will receive their next meal."
"Moreover, looting carried out for purposes of commoditization will also dissipate because the value of assistance in the marketplace will drop due to the rise in supply."
So Palestinians are stealing food from other Palestinians to make a buck.
"Satterfield said “there’s no question” that the terror group has worked to take “political advantage and certainly some physical substantive advantage out of the aid distribution process.”
Hamas operatives have made a point of “flaunting” their presence at aid sites in a message to Palestinians that the group has no intention of ceding its role in the distribution process."
I'm sure you also wouldn't like a person who completely accepts that Izrael is starving the population of Gaza, both the reality of it and everything about it.
The nuance of all you wrote is missing the context in which it is written:
Israel is a settler-colonial white supremacist occupation and reporting on the "nuance" of how that situation has evolved over 76+ years without acknowledging Israel has no right to exist only serves the genocidal occupation of Palestine. We need to abolish all white supremacy projects, including those from Zionist entities.
>David Satterfield, who served during early months of war
So we should not trust "hospital director" or "journalist" with scare quotes as they MIGHT be Hamas, but happily take IDF soldier's words as truth. The transparent bias is laughable.
I guess also that Israel forbids aid airplanes to take air footage of Gaza because Hamas bends the light to make it seem like IDF is committing war crimes. How devilish of them.
If “Israel” didn’t benefit from starvation in Gaza then “they” wouldn’t be directly causing starvation in Gaza. You’re going to say “but because hamas blah blah”, but it doesn’t matter. Israel is the one holding trucks of food outside a starvation zone, because they (and you, apparently) think that the benefits of doing so are worth the costs of perpetrating genocide.