Hamas has released a video announcing the death of two Israeli hostages and claimed that they were killed by Israeli airstrikes.
The video showed a female hostage named in Israeli media as Noa Argamani, 26, speaking under duress, revealing that two men she was held captive with had been killed in captivity. It was not clear when or where the video was filmed and there was no independent confirmation of Hamas’s claims.
The three hostages were shown in a 37-second Hamas video released on Sunday in which the group urged the Israeli government to halt its aerial and ground offensive and bring about their release. The undated clip ended with the caption: “Tomorrow [Monday] we will inform you of their fate.”
In a statement released with the new video, Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam brigades, said the two men, believed to be Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itay Svirsky, 38, had been killed in “the Zionist army’s bombing”.
Has nothing to do with what I wrote.
People won’t listen to a person who is an obvious genocide denier.
Answer the question.
Do you believe that starving a population you don’t like is genocide?
It still has nothing to do with what I wrote. You can taunt all you like, but I’ll address you when you respond to what I communicate rather than your beliefs.
It’s not a taunt.
It’s trying to get you to say out loud what you obviously believe.
You don’t want to because you know it will discredit you to other people reading this thread.
I’m glad you know me so well.
And yet you still refuse to answer. I responded directly to your question above, as you requested, and yet you still haven’t answered.
Pardon. Lots of things going on.
First, you might find this timeline helpful. https://www.usip.org/palestinian-politics-timeline-2006-election
Second. Been to the region, and I don’t believe there was ever a time when Gaza could feed itself. It must depend on food aid for the population to survive. They do a little fishing, of course, but the ground is arrid and very few crops will grow there. There is no industry, so very little money to buy food. So, the world stepped up and gives them aid. 200 trucks a day from Egypt. When that’s disrupted people are going to be hungry. One reason I increased my contributions to World Kitchen. As I understand they are back to 200 trucks a day.
200 trucks a day is not the number that is required. 2000 per day is required. Again, you should use your brain here. You think 200 trucks can feed a population of 2.2 million? How big do you think those trucks are? Did you think about this for even a second while typing it?
Also, 200 a day are not going in. 200 trucks per day is what went in during the temporary seize fire.
The ground being arid doesn’t matter, what matters is that Israel has blockaded them for the last 17 years. An act of war, by the by, so if Israel is at war with the Gazan population, it is one that it started 17 year ago.
You act as if having money would allow Gaza to buy food. How would it be delivered? Israel interdicts all incoming goods, and refuses to allow all food in. They have boasted about intentionally putting Gaza on a starvation diet before the war.
It’s actually ironic, in that that is part of what made Hamas as powerful as it is right now. Part of the original purpose, though obviously not the entire purpose was to smuggle food in, and then sell it in Gaza. Good job Bibi.
You still didn’t answer the question.
Do you believe a government intentionally starving a population it views as undesirable is genocide?
The US, EU, etc. Are buying and distributing aid. They send these trucks via NGOs for food distribution. 200 is the number they have. Don’t know if it’s enough but it seemed to be the last few years.
Isreal looks at these shipments to make sure they don’t contain material or weapons that could be used against them. The US Coast Guard does the same exercise.
I don’t accept the premise of your question, as it assumes facts not in evidence. But, if I read it plainly, of course not.