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Food Airdrops Are Falling Short in Gaza (time.com)

submitted 11 months ago by CaractacusPotts to c/palestine

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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,”

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

“There is no good reason why aid cannot access Gaza by road today,”

Israel is starving everyone they can't kill with bullets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And shooting those who try to get aid. Treating aid shipments as bait traps.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/14/death-trap-israeli-forces-kill-six-aid-seekers-in-gaza-city

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Well there's one reason, although I wouldn't say it's a good one : Israeli extremists blocking aid.