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[-] Lynthe@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago

You mean the water system which has been cannibalized for years by Hamas to create mortars used to attack Israeli civilians?

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

So Hamas made Israel blow shit up, eh?

[-] Lynthe@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

If the infrastructure wasn't intentionally sabotaged by Hamas there would be less suffering. Water infrastructure in Gaza has been suffering for years due to Hamas' actions. Bombing provoked by October 7th and the continued holding of hostages has exacerbated the problem but let's not pretend that municipal water "run" by a genocidal terrorist group was serving all innocent Palestinians with the water they needed prior to the war.

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago

Wow. Maybe Israel shouldn't have helped Hamas get elected, then.

[-] Lynthe@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Yes. It was an obvious mistake of historic proportions and one which I as well as many others interested in a lasting peace between an Israeli and Palestinian state have opposed.

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

It wasn't a mistake. Israel wanted a terrorist group in charge of gaza so that they could justify the current bombings and genocide. It was all intentional. Going exactly according to plan. It's all Israel's fault.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

When did Hamas sabotage the water infrastructure?

[-] Lynthe@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/13/middleeast/hamas-weapons-invs/index.html

Hamas produces the vast majority of its own Qassam rockets these days, said the researcher, given the difficulties of smuggling in larger rockets into the blockaded Gaza Strip. How the group manufactures the makeshift rockets is less known. In previous battles with Israel, Hamas was known to have fired rockets made of old water pipes, the researcher noted.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hamas dug up some water pipes beneath old abandoned Israeli settlements in Gaza for rockets...In the far past from a time Israelis controlled Gaza.

Extrapolating this event in the far past this to dismantling the actual water supply of Gaza to make rockets is a slight stretch to say the least. Especially since we have satalite images of it being destroyed by Israeli rockets

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68969239

[-] Lynthe@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

I never meant to imply or state that the bombing has no impact, or even that it isn't the most significant impact. We should be able to acknowledge that war is terrible and harms innocent civilians while also acknowledging that the governing power of Gaza has taken steps to further endanger Palestinians living there.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I have not seen Hamas damaging any water supply systems that are in use. Only Israel is doing that.

The old pipes you referred to, beneath the abandoned Israeli settlements, were not in use.

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