The Palestinian government attacked their neighbor and took hostages. Their neighbor then stopped supplying Palestine with resources.
It seems Israel is aiming for the best case scenario here, which is for the people of Palestine to overthrow the death cult that controls their state.
Nice work ignoring the decades of conflict. It’s not like Israel has been stealing all the land they agreed to “allow” Palestinians have for the last 50+ years or anything, right?
So you’re saying they’ve been giving food, water, and energy to people they have been enemies with for “decades”?
That’s awful nice of them, but it doesn’t change the fact that declaring war is going to get those things taken away.
… you really want to use that argument? “Giving them food, water and energy”? Like they’re prisoners?
That’s called collective punishment, and is a war crime.
They’re not really neighbors. Gaza is more like a prison controlled by Israel. Israel has controlled Gaza’s electricity, food, water, and the movement of its citizens for many years. I believe even before this attack, Israel only allowed Gaza 4 hours of electricity per day.
Also, in 2019, the PM of Israel reportedly laid out a strategy to “bolster” Hamas and provide them funding to oppose the Palestinian Authority. Hamas, in its current form, would not have been possible without Israel creating the perfect conditions for terrorist organizations to thrive. Israel keeps the conditions so bad, the average age in Gaza is 18. So, half of those Palestinian death toll numbers we are seeing are likely children.
Refusing to supply the country that invaded you is a war crime??? Since when? Does Ukraine have to keep sending food to Russia?
And what prison in this world can you fire off 5,000 rockets from?
Refusing to supply the country that invaded you
The way I read it, they were already refusing basic human needs. Cart, horse.
There’s pictures of the Israelis landing in palestine by boat 75 years ago begging for asylum, they never stuck to the border agreements over the years and continuously steal land and kill palestinians, Israelis are scum of the earth lowlife colonisers. End of story.
They never stuck to the border agreements because for starters the surrounding arab countries (can’t say Palestine because it didn’t even exist as a country back then) refuse to acknowledge the borders and instead wanted to eradicate Israel. And for the first 30 years of after Israel was officially founded those same countries kept poking and prodding hoping to force them out in a similar fashion current day Israel does to Palestine. Is it really a wonder then that they treat Palestinians like dirt and ignore border agreements? It’s literally how they were historically treated.
And this isn’t to defend Israel. Current day Israel is the reason Hamas exists and Israeli treatment of Palestinians (not just in Gaza) laid the foundation of the terror attack. What I’m pointing out is that there’s a clear circle of violence that has been perpetuated by generations on both side and this nuanceless “Palestinians / Hamas is evil” or “Israelis are scum” perspectives are perpetuating the same violence by dehumanizing the other side.
