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Sue Boyde's avatar

James, the emaciated children have major health problems that prevent them from getting nutrition from their food. Their mothers and siblings are normal weight. Here's an example

https://x.com/mishtal/status/1949363312598110466

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Miss J A Yates's avatar

Is there a way to revisit practice at distribution sites? My cousin worked with aid distribution efforts and established a routine that worked, where people sat down in lines forming queues that were managed by locals, that fed into the distribution points, with a way in and out safely managed. Colour coding queues to distribution points, avoiding the potential for stampede, distributing very early in the morning and more suggestions are needed perhaps.

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Yoel Domb's avatar

As an Israeli I can say that this was a welcome even-handed and impartial interview, with journalists finally trying to gather the truth from the tissue of lies that Hamas has succeeded in tying to the entire Gaza strip. Just to fix a number of inaccuracies: There should be no need for famine in Gaza, enough food has gone in to even enrich every family but for most of the war it was being stockpiled and then sold at exorbitant rates by Hamas who then used the money to purchase more weapons and build more tunnels. Paradoxically the aid meant to feed people prolonged their suffering as Hamas was strengthened by it and continued its war, even justifying its ghoulish incarceration of civilian Israelis in truly starvation conditions. Hamas is therefore entirely responsible for any famine in the region, and has utilized every building in Gaza, placing mines, antitank rockets and attack tunnels so that it could make guerilla warfare in all civilian regions and while wearing civilian clothes. After so many casualties due to trying to protect civilians, Israel realized that they must be relocated and all the buildings razed and this is essential to achieve the demise of Hamas. Your reporter expressed repugnance at ministers who said that Gaza must be wiped out but 80% of Gazans will be more than happy to relocate until it is rebuilt which could take decades, and it would benefit these people not to be in the zone (which has huge amounts of ordnances unexploded and other dangers) until it is rebuilt, so there is no ethnic cleansing only a need to relocated homeless people until their home can be restored. Israel doesn’t intend to take the massacre of its citizens and leave - we also have claims from Biblical times on this land and Abraham and Isaac both spent time in the region. The locals will just have to share it with us, as Israel is shared with its 2 million strong Muslim minority and as Judea and Samaria will be shared between the nations in future

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