Hamas has spent years stockpiling desperately needed fuel, food and medicine, as well as ammo and weapons, in the miles of tunnels it has carved out under Gaza.

Hamas has spent years stockpiling desperately needed fuel, food and medicine, as well as ammo and weapons, in the miles of tunnels it has carved out under Gaza.

  • queermunist she/her
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    1 year ago

    Israel only ever supplied ~10% of Gaza’s water, and returned the supply of that water on 10/15.

    Israel provides the fuel they need to access the water, so turning the water on without providing fuel is fucking pointless.

    It’s also been letting food aid in. Get your facts straight.

    It’s been letting in too few trucks to actually feed everyone. They need many times more than what is being allowed in. Those are starvation rations, not actual relief. Get your facts straight, you’re the one paying to read the news you should already know this shit.

    I mean, you could try reading the article

    I’m not making an account. But! I was able to copy some of it behind the popup to read:

    “Hamas has hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel for vehicles and rockets; caches of ammunition, explosives and materials to make more; and stockpiles of food, water and medicine, the officials said. A senior Lebanese official said Hamas, which is estimated to number between 35,000 and 40,000, had enough stocked away to keep fighting for three to four months without resupply.”

    Okay, so doing some math, Hamas represents 1.8% of the population. Ignoring how complicated converting “fuel for guerilla warfare” and “fuel for civilian use” is, lets just do a 1:1 and assume its the same. Three to four months divided out over 2.2 million people is 1 to 1 and a half days.

    So, Hamas is supposed to use up all their fuel and make it easy for Israel to kill them all the next fucking day.

    If they wanted to kill everyone, they could have done so already, that’d have been super easy for them

    This has never been true. Killing everyone requires either a ground invasion and sustaining a lot of casualties or committing so many war crimes that they turn the world against them - either way they start a regional war, maybe even WW3. They can’t actually do that, so they’re trying to ethnically cleans Gaza by pushing them into Southern Gaza and then into Egypt.

    “Israel could kill everyone anytime they want too, they’re just too merciful to do that!” is a colonialist lie that Israel tells the world to both bolster their own international image and dehumanize Hamas. The reality is Israel is much weaker than it lets on.