Human rights advocates argue that airdrops and maritime routes are an insufficient substitute to aid delivery by land.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17490070

humanitarian organizations, many of which have been sounding alarms about the hunger crisis in Gaza for months, are not impressed. They argue that air and sea deliveries are not only an insufficient substitute for humanitarian aid delivered by land, but a dehumanizing one that acts as a distraction to the man-made barriers that have prevented more aid from getting into Gaza in the first place. “There is no good reason why aid cannot access Gaza by road today,”

  • popcap200English
    136·
    3 months ago

    At least the US pier headed for Gaza is making progress.

    • juicy@lemmy.todayEnglish
      82·
      3 months ago

      The pier is just more theater like these air drops. In 2 months when the pier is ready for use, thousands will have already died of starvation.

    • CityPop@lemmy.todayEnglish
      59·
      3 months ago

      Fuck the pier.

      Imagine someone was setting your house on fire and another guy named Joe was handing him cash and oil to keep setting fire to your house. Joe told him to stop as he handed the guy more oil, but he didn’t so Joe promised to install a hose in the front lawn of your house that should be ready in about 3 months to help put out some of the fire.

      The US needs to stop supplying and protecting Israel first and foremost. Anything else is PR.