By MAYA ZANGER-NADIS NOVEMBER 12, 2023 19:09 Updated: NOVEMBER 12, 2023 21:26
Israeli security forces delivered 300 liters of diesel fuel to Shifa Hospital in Gaza early Sunday morning and later received intelligence indicating that Hamas had intercepted the delivery, according to a Sunday night IDF statement.
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If we were to be devils advocates for a second here… if you knew that the terrorists that you’re trying to wipe out would steal any fuel you send in, but everyone keeps telling you to do it anyway, would you send 9000 litres and resupply your adversary or would you send a few hundred litres and record what happens to make a point?
Especially since you can send another 300 liters, or even more, as soon as you see it actually going to the hospital.
Also, the hospital most certainly does not need 10000 liters a day for critical equipment. (To run everything like normal, maybe.)
You would send all the fuel a catastrophic situation needs. That’s the point of humanitarian help.
But who are we kidding, if not for international pressure, there would never be any humanitarian help. Or there woulf still be 20 trucks a day, with water for 20k people, in a city of 2 million
Even if you knew the aid wouldn’t arrive, but instead would be used to extend the cause of the catastrophic situation?
The hospitals were running fine before the Israelis shut off their power.
Israel is not responsible for providing power to Gaza. Hamas are.