Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started
theguardian.com
However, truck owners involved in the food deliveries, mostly Egyptian hauliers, are reluctant to let their vehicles be used inside Gaza for fear of them bombed or ransacked by starving Gazans. There is also a shortage of willing drivers after repeated incidents of aid trucks coming under fire, of which the WCK bombing has been the worst but far from an isolated incident.
The planned coordination centre, whenever it is finished, may not be sufficient to address this fundamental obstacle to delivering food, as long as much of Gaza is a free fire zone, aid workers argue.
Started? Are they fucking joking?
What's next, "Israel is risking genocide in Gaza?"
So tired of this shit.
There is reprieve. It just involves us protesting right outside the white house relentlessly. We all must also write our representatives each day.
Lastly, I cannot stress this enough, military contractors and all other forms of lobbying need to be removed and made illegal like the bribery they are.
I don't know if we'll ever unravel why we can't call genocide just that, and save the people clearly being annihilated. But I know we never will if we don't try.
I don't live in D.C., I couldn't afford to move there just to protest, and I have responsibilities where I live, such as a family.
My representative is Larry Buschon. He couldn't give less of a fuck what any of his constituents think.
Cool, I'm sure congress will get right on that.
Why is this downvoted?
I guess people want me to do things that I either can't do or wouldn't be worth the time.
I can't speak for others.
For me: Because it is defeatist.
It's fine to feel that way, but wet towelling calls to action... It's clearly unhelpful.
Go to Larry's office each day with a horde of people. If not, then nothing will change.
Make time to go and protest locally. If not, then nothing will change.
Simulate our living hell for them and pierce their padding of privilege. If not, then nothing will change.
History shows the only time anything changes for the masses is when we band together and make it the owning class's problem. If not, nothing will change.
His local office is over 2 hours away by car. Maybe you have over four hours each day to go protest, but I don't. Also, where do I get this horde of people?
If you never have time for these things, someone that does will make the decisions for you. That's the harsh truth. If every MAGAt can make it to Jan 6, I think we can at least write our representatives. Or out aside a single day to go and protest. We're all here all day on these socials, you could use that to organize like I try at !seitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
You said protest every day. With a group of people. Now you're saying a single day to go protest.
Also, the only social community for my state on Lemmy barely ever has any posts and I don't think anyone there is from my town anyway. And I have no friends here. So how am I supposed to organize this?
As far as writing him, as I said- he doesn't give a shit what his constituents think. He keeps getting re-elected because of the R after his name and this is Indiana.
I get that you want this to have an effect, but it won't. Not every representative gives a shit or will ever give a shit. It accomplishes nothing in those cases.
Protesting does work. Remember the Civil Rights Movement? Did that look easy? Were demands instantly met? It takes time and effort, water cuts through rock with persistence, not force. I get you don't want this to work, but history has shown it can and often times does. Go forth, or don't. But don't complain about those of us that do just because the affects are not immediate.
Protesting can work. That doesn't mean it always works.
Protesting works when you do it at the right time in the right place with the right people.
There is no time when protesting at Larry Buschon's Evansville office is the right place and, again, I don't know anyone.
I'm not sure why even the last part is not an issue to you, but I would think that one person standing outside his office with a protest sign about Israel wouldn't exactly start a major movement. I just looked up his office on Google. It isn't even a prominent place. You'd miss it if you didn't know it was there.
This isn't marching over the bridge in Selma you're talking about, this is a silly waste of time. I have been in many protest marches, but I'm not going to waste over four hours of my time just to get to a place almost no one recognizes alone with a protest sign. It will not do a thing about Israel. Not a single thing. It will not save one single Palestinian life. I might as well stand in front of a Menards.
The only way Biden will care about Gaza is if he believes it could cost him the election in November. All the people who say we must vote for Biden no matter what are undermining the only leverage we have to end this before hundreds of thousands of innocent people die before our eyes.
Fuck Israel. Never forget. Never forgive.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
One of Netanyahu’s pledges to Biden, to open the Ashdod port north of Gaza as a portal to sea-borne humanitarian aid, has led to no apparent action, according to the Israel N12 channel.
On Wednesday, Samantha Power, the head of the US humanitarian and development agency, USAID, became the first American official to confirm publicly that famine had already got a grip in at least some parts of Gaza.
Power told a congressional committee that her officials had analysed an assessment by food insecurity experts in mid-March that a famine could set in between later the same month and mid-May, and had found that judgment to be “credible”.
Under a delivery system that predates the current conflict, goods from outside Gaza are screened, then delivered to its entry points, unloaded on the Gazan side of the crossings and then reloaded on to different trucks operating inside the strip.
However, truck owners involved in the food deliveries, mostly Egyptian hauliers, are reluctant to let their vehicles be used inside Gaza for fear of them bombed or ransacked by starving Gazans.
The planned coordination centre, whenever it is finished, may not be sufficient to address this fundamental obstacle to delivering food, as long as much of Gaza is a free fire zone, aid workers argue.
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what's Hamas doing to try to get aid in there, anything? because i don't think Hamas or Iran gives a shit about the people of Gaza either..
There is nothing Hamas could possibly do to bring in aid. In case you didn't notice, Israel controls the entire circumference of Gaza and outguns Hamas by 100 to 1. Israel and their enablers bear total responsibility for this slow motion catastrophe.
they don't care about doing anything, get it through your fucking head
By facilitating genocide in Gaza, supporting Russian invasions and encouraging pollution that heats the planet, conservatives are killing off the planet's most vulnerable people. Conservatism will continue to kill as many people as possible for as long as possible. Conservatives are a cancer to humanity.
There is a treatment for this cancer, but it is not to be spoken of in polite company.
What a dumb take. I'm not a pacifist. I believe there's a time and a place for violent resistence. But if you think it's appropriate to go around killing people for bad-think, you're just as evil as anything you're fighting against.
I guess I'm evil then.