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> Question: There is a repeated claim that more calories have been provided to the Gaza people than several other human crisis scenarios, but that Hamas is curr
by Ozzie_osman 1y ago
> Question: There is a repeated claim that more calories have been provided to the Gaza people than several other human crisis scenarios, but that Hamas is currently stealing it all.
This claim is made by supporters of the war _outside of Israel_ for external consumption. If you look at what the Israeli cabinet, generals and politicians are saying for internal consumption... it's pretty deliberate.
- throwaway290 1y agoUN data, compare numbers "arrived" and "intercepted": https://app.un2720.org/tracking https://app.un2720.org/tracking are you saying un supports the war then?
- JumpCrisscross 1y agoIntercepted is defined as "either peacefully by hungry people or forcefully by armed actors, during transit in Gaza." Some fraction of that may be Hamas. But we have no evidence of that.
- throwaway290 1y agoI guess we may never know. But hey, between hungry peasants and buff hamas soldiers we do know who has the guns. This is a truck. You are a hungry person. How do you even stop a truck? And why, if you could just... follow it to a location where it was supposed to despense stuff to you?
- jijijijij 1y ago> Either peacefully by hungry people or forcefully armed actors, during transit in Gaza