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Headline after headline fails to mention that seizing the ships and kidnapping humanitarians violates international law. Instead the articles repeat Israeli propaganda.

This is how Western media normalizes Israel’s crimes.

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Israeli naval ships intercept Gaza-bound flotilla

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Live: Israel says it has stopped several vessels from Gaza aid flotilla

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Activists say Israeli navy has begun intercepting a Gaza-bound aid flotilla

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Israeli military intercept and board several aid ships bound for Gaza, organizers say

  • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
    211·
    2 months ago

    It’s kidnapping when they don’t have jurisdiction to seize ANYONE in that location, on those vessels. If I grab a random person off the street, force them into my car at gunpoint, make them watch two Toy Story movies of their choice, and then paid a taxi to bring them back to another city they’re not from, it’d be (the silliest) kidnapping.

    What are you doing to bring attention to the genocide? What messages have reached people around the globe written or orchestrated by your hand?

    Stop being a crab, pulling others down into the bucket. All efforts towards peace and humanity are good efforts.

    • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org
      310·
      2 months ago

      Again: I think this flotilla helps the people that are part of it, with there helplessness concerning the dire situation in Gaza. It also helps everyone who wants to say: “Look! Israel is even more evil than we thought!“. Which helps antisemites who sometimes „by accident“ say „the Jews“ instead of „the IDF“ or „Netanjahus fascist government“.

      There are signs appearing on German shops again: „Jews(!) are not welcome here.“ There was a synagogue attacked in GB yesterday. Attacking Jews because of a fascist government in Israel is like beating up every guy called Vladimir because of Putins war on Ukraine. People are beaten because they wear a Star of David. That’s like beating people wearing green, because Hamas uses green headbands.

      What actually helps, is writing letters after letters (not emails) to your local representative, telling them in clear but polite words what you think. The rightwingers in Germany do it all the time and the public broadcasting bends over backwards to appear „balanced“.

      What may help is support the organisations that have at least to some degree access to Gaza and the West Bank.

      What’s not helping, is putting a handful of truckloads of aid on boats with some lesser known stars and sending them on a journey that had no chance of ever reaching their proclaimed goal.

      • mrdown@lemmy.world
        31·
        2 months ago

        Why are you shifting the blame from israel? Many of the antisemitism act are direct result of israel genocide. You should blame israel who try to associate antizionism to antisemitism

        I saw a video of gazan fishing ton of fish because israel intention was shifted to the flotillas

        • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org
          31·
          2 months ago

          People who take part in these crimes are responsible for committing them. People who defend those crimes are guilty of defending them. No person is responsible for the crimes of the IDF and Israeli government just because this person is born in Israel or of Jewish descent.

          I don’t go beating up Germans with Russian grandparents, because Putin is trying to eradicate Ukraine. It’s not their fault.

          • mrdown@lemmy.world
            11·
            2 months ago

            You don’t get it. I do not justify it. I acknowledge that is it wrong and i also acknowledge the issue so we csn fine a solution to reduce hate crimes for everybody. Something that they don’t tell you is that both antisemitism and antimuslims increased because of the genocide in Gaza

      • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
        42·
        2 months ago

        So, everyone is just supposed to sit down and twiddle their thumbs while Israel finishes off the rest of the Palestinian population and steals their land, saying “Oh, bummer, but it was inevitable”?

    • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksBanned from community
      314·
      2 months ago

      Well Israel isn’t stopping random boats or arresting random people. They had announced their intentions clearly and have not reacted on orders to stop. Look up international maritime law on blockades.

      Israel can’t let people enter dangerous warzones. The actual aid organizations on the ground in Gaza coordinate with the IDF all the time to minimize danger. The flotilla maximizes danger to themselves on purpose.

      If someone threatens to commit a crime and doesn’t stop when asked, they can be arrested before the crime happens.

      • kurwa@lemmy.world
        131·
        2 months ago

        Minimize danger by shooting unarmed starving people? What a fuckin joke.

      • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
        101·
        2 months ago

        It’s not a crime to be in those water, it’s not their port to be policing, it’s not illegal for them to be in that area… Their blockade is not legal and is not recognized or needed. What, Hamas has some kind of fleet of amphibious vehicles we need to be worried about swarming the coasts? No, Israel has firm control over that port through occupation?

        The ‘actual aid organizations’ CAN’T GET THROUGH AND SAY ISRAEL IS PREVENTING THEM FROM SAVING LIVES AND ARE BEING FIRED UPON BY THE IDF…so, I don’t know man, it sounds like an illegal blockade for an illegal genocide to kill humans they deemed to be illegal by birth.

              • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
                2·
                2 months ago

                There’s nothing to “nuance” here. Israel wants all the Gazan’s driven out, killed, or in what are effectively concentration camps. All the rest is Israeli Hasbara. This isn’t a failure of aid management. The shameful incompetence of the GHF is by design. Also FYI:

                Olga Cherevko, from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, provided further details about the looters to the Israeli media outlet Times of Israel: the vast majority of the looting was being carried out “by hungry Gazans, not by armed gangs”, the UN employee said.

                And maybe you should read this to get some more clarity on the situation:

                Unless INGOs submit to the full registration requirements, including the mandatory submission of details of private donors, complete Palestinian staff lists and other sensitive information about personnel for so-called “security” vetting to Israeli authorities, many could be forced to halt operations in Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and remove all international staff within 60 days. Some organizations have even been issued a seven-day ultimatum to provide Palestinian staff lists.

                NGOs have made clear that sharing such data is unlawful (including under relevant data protection laws), unsafe, and incompatible with humanitarian principles. In the deadliest context for aid workers worldwide, where 98 percent of those humanitarians killed were Palestinian, NGOs have no guarantees that handing over such information would not put staff at further risk, or be used to advance the government of Israel’s stated military and political aims.

                Today, INGOs’ fears have proven true: the registration system is now being used to further block aid and deny food and medicine in the midst of the worst-case scenario of famine.

                “Since the full siege was imposed on March 2, CARE has not been able to deliver any of our $1.5 million worth of pre-positioned supplies into Gaza,” said Jolien Veldwijk, country director of CARE. “This includes critical shipments of food parcels, medical supplies, hygiene kits, dignity kits and maternal and infant care items. Our mandate is to save lives, but due to the registration restrictions civilians are being left without the food, medicine, and protection they urgently need.”

                “Oxfam has over $2.5 million worth of goods that have been rejected from entering Gaza by Israel, especially WASH [water and sanitation] and hygiene items as well as food,” said Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam policy lead. “This registration process signals to INGOs that their ability to operate may come at the cost of their independence and ability to speak out.”

                These restrictions are part of a broader strategy that includes the so-called “GHF” scheme – a militarized distribution mechanism promoted as a humanitarian solution. In reality, it is a deadly tool of control, with at least 859 Palestinians killed around “GHF” sites since it began operating.

                “The militarized food distribution scheme has weaponized starvation and curated suffering. Distributions at GHF sites have resulted in extreme levels of violence and killings, primarily of young Palestinian men, but also of women and children, who have gone to the sites in the hope of receiving food,” according to Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency coordinator in Gaza.

                Both the “GHF” scheme and the INGO registration process aim to block impartial aid, exclude Palestinian actors and replace trusted humanitarian organizations with mechanisms that serve political and military objectives. They come as the government of Israel escalates its military offensive and deepens its occupation in Gaza, making clear these measures are part of a broader strategy to entrench control and erase Palestinian presence.

                “At this point, everyone knows what the correct, humane answer is, and it’s not a floating pier, airdrops or the “GHF.” The answer, to save lives, save humanity and save yourselves from complicity in engineered mass starvation, is to open all the borders, at all hours, to the thousands of trucks, millions of meals and medical supplies, ready and waiting nearby,” said Sean Carroll of Anera.

          • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            The other 85% of pallets were looted by “either peacefully by hungry people or forcefully by armed actors during transit,” according to the data. The Mirror has contacted the U.N. for additional information on the data. [my emphasis]

            So what proportion was “looted” by starving Palestinian civilians and what proportion was “looted” by Hamas? The article conveniently doesn’t say, probably because Israel conveniently claims everyone they shoot at is Hamas.

            Let me refer you to these (inconvenient for your narrative) follow up articles that debunk your claim:

            The reason Palestinians are starving and being killed in Gaza and the West Bank is because that is what Israel’s intention has been all along.

          • mrdown@lemmy.world
            31·
            2 months ago

            UN say aid is unsuficient and isrsel is comitting a genocide . They didn’t even arrest isrseli blocking aid and destroy it

      • xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        91·
        2 months ago

        The actual aid organizations on the ground in Gaza coordinate with the IDF all the time to minimize danger

        Ahyes, famously they have been very cooperative with aid organisations, so much so they set up they’re own (Gaza Holocaust Fiundation), which was totally not another front to slaughter even more people.

        Also, the danger is the israeli army, what fucking coordination? Please don’t murder our aid workers like you do every time?

        What are all these freakish zionists on fedi? Go dig a hole and crawl in it.