Hamas’ brutal attacks in Israel on October 7 killed at least 1,400 people and the group took more than 200 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. In the wake of the assault, Israel launched an aerial bombardment of Gaza that Palestinian health officials say has killed more than 5,000 people. Israel also announced a “complete siege” on the enclave, withholding vital supplies of water, food and fuel.
how much fuel is hamas hoarding right now?
That’s a hell of a what about ism.
Putting pressure on the population like this, is putting pressure on the government to spend critical resources, to make them less capable of fighting a war. It is a valid, and historically often used, siege strategy.
The main point, is the civilians in Gaza are trapped, they’re not allowed to leave, they don’t have water, they don’t have power to make water, they are suffering. That’s the takeaway, ending the suffering should be the goal.
Even if Hamas gave up all of their fuel reserves, which the reserving for the ground assault they’ve been told is coming, even if they gave up all of their fuel, the siege would not be ended, and the civilians would still not have water. It might be delayed by a day. But it doesn’t change the situation that exists right now
Steal the fuel from the terrorists, problem solved
ok, but the terrorists are not importing any new fuel, what do the hospitals do tomorrow when the terrorist fuel is gone?
The fuel will buy the hospitals and actual civilians more time to use vital facilities, while disrupting the HAMAS scum. Without fuel hamas will be very soft targets.
Do you see the energy embargo ending just because hamas has no more fuel?
I don’t, the cruelty is the point here, its not accidental. its designed to put pressure on the Gaza government through humanitarian disaster, and thats terrible.
I’m guessing you mean Hamas’ military branch? Because it’s the Hamas Government that is running out of fuel, plus all the UNRWA schools and NGO hospitals.
So even if Hamas’ military has fuel, It’s not enough for 2 million people, so it doesn’t matter.
This siege is preventing basic goods from entering to innocent civilians. Trying to get people to look away is really lame.
Just like people don’t say that rebel israeli soldiers acting illegally committed whatever atrocities and just say it was israel (or even worse the jewish people) i do not make the distinction between the terrorists sub divisions.
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No but for real, New Zealand does, same with the UN. Do you think you’re better than New Zealand and the UN?
New Zealand funds terrorism because of it.
Not according to the US, do you have any sources to back your claim?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/10/eu-funded-water-pipelines-hamas-rockets/
Hamas converts domestic aid into war supplies.
rebel soldiers? no, the Israeli government gives medals for killing children, I have no clue where you got the rebel soldier bit from.
So in competent governments, the Civilian government controls the military. So how much fuel is Hamas hoarding.
Honestly, if I were Hamas now and the next step was trying to fight off an Israeli invasion of the Gaza strip (where they will enter to do Deir Yassin just x100), then hanging on to the little fuel I have would actually save more lives on the long run /:
It’s 2023, they can do Deir Yassin x100 without an invasion. A 48 hour traditional artillery barrage; similar to what Russia has done to cities in Eastern Ukraine would do it.
That doesn’t sound a lot tbh… If you calculate with 2M people there, it’s just 0.25 litres per person. I don’t think that would be sufficient to filter vast amounts of water.
Also, why haven’t the fuel tanks been destroyed in the strategic military focused air bombings? Obviously they’ve been identified so that they can be reported on
No, they just managed to get a good look at fuel tanks (but no information about the content)… and yet when they bomb “terrorists” in Gaza with heir super x-ray vision, they still manage to kill 40% children.
I think this is simply a function of the asymmetry of the military forces involved. The Israeli military has full control of the air, long range artillery, modern western weapons. They can destroy any target they want easily.
Therefore any installation Hamas has that’s separated from the population, will have already been destroyed in the early phases of the conflict 20 years ago. Anything they build that’s away from population centers would be immediately destroyed.
Perhaps it’s an unintended consequence but the emerging behavior is the only military installations that survive are near civilian populations. It doesn’t help that the population density of the conflict area is incredibly high, with the majority of the population being children. Meaning there’s children everywhere around every target. Because any target that’s not around children would have been destroyed already.
And none of this has to do with the intentions of either side, it’s just the asymmetric capabilities creating de facto emergent behavior. It’s not that Hamas is trying to use human shields, they have no other practical choice. And before the exasperated brigade starts to dogpile me, this is just the reality of war, it’s not an apology.
Yes, but you still need someone to pull the trigger, and then you need 10 other nations to say “it’s the right to self defense” to make it okay.
It’s might + intent, not one without the other.
Because the government of Israel has asymmetric strength in this conflict, it makes them more responsible to move towards peace. Simply because they have most of the capabilities.
Blaming Hamas is completely valid, Hamas is a bad actor.
Blaming the Palestinian people is not valid, Israel the country with its asymmetric capabilities is the responsible one to bring the populations towards peace.
As the last 60 years of demonstrated, using your asymmetric power to just bomb a population into submission, might buy you a respite, but does not end the cycle of violence
Yep, and honestly I keep wondering what Israel was thinking. Did it think it could keep Palestinians from retaliating forever?
What was the plan for Gaza anyway? Leaving that bomb ticking rather than removing the siege (gradually at least) and allowing these people self-determination.
Probably the location. A fuel depot would cause secondary explosions, and a large one. Israel attempts to mitigate damage to Innocents with its air strikes.
Why would anyone believe their estimates? They’ve been dropping bombs on civilian houses claiming they’re havens for terrorists and didn’t even see an attack that appears to have been prepared for completely out in the open. Their vaunted intelligence services seem to be more the result of a good branding campaign than actual competence.