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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
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    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
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            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.comM
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        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
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        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