Thousands of Gaza residents broke into warehouses and distribution centres of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) grabbing flour and "basic survival items", the organisation said on Sunday.

Thousands of Gaza residents broke into warehouses and distribution centres of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) grabbing flour and “basic survival items”, the organisation said on Sunday.

“This is a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war and a tight siege on Gaza,” the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said in a statement.

One of the warehouses, located in Deir al-Balah, is where UNRWA stores supplies from the humanitarian convoys crossing into Gaza from Egypt.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    525·
    1 year ago

    Civilization is 3 missed meals from collapse…

    Usually this quote is a warning about preparing for natural disasters, we don’t usually have humans trying to design total social collapse on their neighbors.

    • tpihkal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2251·
      1 year ago

      And yet those neighbors allow the very people that want total social collapse to build tunnels under their homes and businesses and establish bases and torture chambers in their hospitals.

      • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
        201·
        1 year ago

        Ah yes, because your average Gazan could totally stand up to the armed militia that’s in charge of every aspect of life in the strip.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        2215·
        1 year ago

        Nice Spin, I must have missed the news reports of the total water, food, energy, and medical embargo the Palestinians were inflicting on the Israeli people.

        • tpihkal@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1725·
          1 year ago

          Hamas destroyed their infrastructure to build rockets. Literally tore up pipes that were used to supply water to build rockets. The Palestinians are suffering as a direct result of Hamas.

          • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
            266·
            1 year ago

            Quite right, the citizens of Gaza have two oppressors right now, Hamas and the IDF… saying the children (50% of Gaza <18) deserve to starve because of guilt by association is also evil.

            Collective punishment invites collective reprisals… magnifies violence. If your ever on the side of killing children your on the wrong side. Which means… there are more then two sides here.

            • tpihkal@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1122·
              1 year ago

              Who the fuck said anyone deserves to starve‽ Hamas is a cancer and must be ripped from the face of the earth. They hold the entirety of the blame when they kill Westerners indiscriminately and use their own citizens as shields.

              • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
                158·
                1 year ago

                I must have misunderstood your comments… there was a very heavy implication the Gazan people deserved it. Do you support allowing humanitarian aid to be delivered to the gazan people?

                Hamas is evil, to be sure, but they are a symptom not a cause. Apartheid and oppression are the root cause.

                Also - Holding “Western” lives higher then Arab lives is a tiny bit racist…

      • Shiggles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1913·
        1 year ago

        Okay buddy I’m sure you’d have acted differently when the alternative is getting shot, and you can’t really argue that they’re worse than the israeli government treats you.

        • sfgifz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          102·
          1 year ago

          People were all too happy to give the Russian people a pass when they invaded Ukraine. It wasn’t “Russians” who were killing Ukrainians, it was “Putins Russia” that was responsible for this “Putins Invasion”. The same kind of narrative is never extended when the parties involved aren’t white.

          • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
            81·
            1 year ago

            There are a good number of logically consistent people out there who defend the Palestinians. I’ve only been seeing this number increase lately. This is happening despite the media not being logically consistent and pretty much unequivocally supporting the Zionists in Israel.

          • Shiggles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            34·
            1 year ago

            How does this argument ever make sense to you? Do you truly consider people to be one monolithic group with no dissenting opinions? The exact same comparison was made, just as now people are saying it’s the Israeli prime ministers actions, which is actually very fair given the amount of israeli citizens showing very natural disdain for the genocide.