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“According to the most respected measure of these things, 100 percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. That’s the first time an entire population has been so classified,” Blinken told a press conference in the Philippines, where he is on an official visit.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I will never befriend a Zionist.

They are religious nationalist scum, through and through.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Read that little Singapore is flying air drops with its C130. But, they really need the floating docks to get enough food in there. The 200 tons the World Kichen shipped in is already in stomachs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or Israel could stop blocking aid trucks?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Relief trucks are being destroyed by riots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know you dearly wish that every problem has a single solution. But, that seldom is the case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Pointing out those blocking aid should stop blocking it means only single solution?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

When there is a severe shortage of food; any food is at risk of being targeted by desperate people. Food is a tier 1 need. It doesn't matter if the food is being delivered by land or sea. The solution to this is to provide enough food that people know they are not going to starve to death even without resorting to violence to get what food they can

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah but that stops Isreali interest in the starvation of others. Won't be at all surprised to see any aid put at the dock turned away or blocked from being distributed

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Agree, but you can get far more aid via ship than trucks or airplanes. That's why the Seabees are busy building the docks. T rucks and airplanes can only get enough calories in for a group that large to survive. Famine is at hand and the docks are the key.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

More aid is irrelevant once you have enough aid. And you can get enough aid in through land. More importantly, we have the roads and trucks to get food in today. We have been using the land route to get food into Gaza for years. The problem is that the most powerful military in the region is blocking the land route.

Now, instead of applying pressure on that military, we are going to spend months building a port to go around them.

By itself that makes sense; except that military is our close ally. We are their biggest shield on the international stage, and biggest supplier of weapons and defensive systems. However, instead of trying to leverage any of that to try and solve the actual barriers to aid delivery, we are going to spend months building a water route.

If this approach ends up working, it would not be because water routes are more efficient. It would ve because the US war ships operating the dock exert enough pressure that Isreal would not dare oppose them.

Of course, even success here only gets food into Gaza. It does not address internal distribution. Ideally, we would use established networks for that. However Israel has running a largly successful campaign to dismantle the only aid network that has been operating at scale within Gaza (unrwa)