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[-] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

As much as the "hurt with one hand, help with the other" approach bothers me, I really hope this enables sufficient aid to safely reach the civilians who so desperately need it.

[-] livus@kbin.social 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sorry to burst your bubble but it's technically incapable of enabling sufficient aid.

  • the US plan is to start with 70 trucks worth of aid and ramp it up to 100 trucks

  • even before the war Gaza needed about 400 trucks of aid, that was when people still had homes and hospitals

  • there are IDF outposts on each side of the pier meaning it could become a choke point just like the crossings

  • the IDF have reinvaded the North where the worst of the famine is

  • the closing of the Rafah crossing means famine conditions are rapidly worsening in the South as well now.

  • once people are actually starving, you need aid workers to distribute aid.

[-] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] regul@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

sorry. spent all the aid money on pontoons

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