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The airdrop came only a few days after Canadian aid had been sent into Gaza. That effort was conducted by Jordan, which borders Israel and the West Bank. At the time, Anand posted a photo of pallets with Canadian flags taped to them.

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[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

There will come a day in a number of years from now, when we look back at the Gaza Genocide and for some reason everyone will have been against it and everyone will have sided with the Palestinians all along, and everyone will have hated Israel's government the entire time.

A fat lot of good that will do the tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent people murdered while we posted memes and argued with each other if it's antisemitic to bomb schools.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Assuming it's all rice, Canada dropped enough food to feed around 30,000 people for a day just enough for them not to die (1Kg of rice has 3580kcal which at minimum required food levels can feed about 3 people and Canada dropped 21.600 pounds, which is a bit less than 10.000Kg)

Gaza used to have about 2 million people, probably 1.5 million now after Israel murdered hundreds of thousands, so assuming the entirety of that drop was used and none spoiled, Canada just fed all of 2% of Gazans for a single day.

Meanwhile Canada keeps on sending weapons to Israel.

This is nothing less than a cynical PR action, and an insulting one at that.

If the side effects of this in reducing the pressure of Canadian public opinion on the Canadian Government delay the actual execution by the latter of effective measures such as sanctions on Israel by a 1 week it will vastly exceed the positive effect of giving 30,000 Gazans an extra day to live, meaning this isn't actually a good thing at all, not even in the smallest of ways.

[-] nullroot@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

Honestly airdrops are like one truck worth of supplies, inefficient, and not super effective. Pressure needs to be put on Israel to allow food and aid trucks back into Gaza. This isn't going to stave off starvation, it's making Canada look good. Still with the climate as it is, I can't knock anyone doing anything trying to help. Keep fighting everyone.

[-] 3abas@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

it's making Canada look good

And you shouldn't accept such bullshit. They need to militarily intervene in the genocide they financially supported, this is PR.

[-] icelimit@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I learned how ineffective airdrops are from trying to sustain an encircled division in Hoi.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

They are risky too

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

WHERE ARE THE FUCKING SANCTIONS YOU FUCKING TWO-FACED POSERS!?

PS: Not the Canadians, their Government.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 days ago

Good. More. At this point we as a group of nations should be airlifting aid trucks in and out of Gaza since the Israelis aren't letting sufficient aid in.

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

please don't start dropping trucks, you're just going to kill more people:

Palestinian nurse killed by falling humanitarian aid

The actual solution is cut off all military support to the genocidal colonists until they stop starving people to death

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I'm thinking more of a situation like the West Berlin Airlift than just dropping trucks from the sky. Of course this in this case it would be a cooperation of France, Spain, UK, Ireland, Canada, Belgium and others to the chagrin of Israel and USA.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Those countries complicit with israel will never do that

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

won't ≠ shouldn't

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

they want them to eat a bit before Israel murder them. Just start sanctioning Israel and stop selling and buying arms

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As a Canadian, I am happy to see this.

I just hope they were able to get it there quickly enough that they didn't have to refrigerate the cheese curds

[-] ChuckTheMonkey@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Please also do the same in East Hastings Street

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