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Israel claims Hamas has 'enough food to spark obesity epidemic' (www.middleeastmonitor.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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An Israeli government spokesperson claimed yesterday that Hamas has “enough food to spark an obesity epidemic” after the occupation state decided on Sunday to suspend the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged and devastated Gaza Strip.

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[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago

I’m not one to body-shame but the audacity of that fat fuck to say this is beyond the pale.

[–] shininghero@pawb.social 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay, and? I fail to see the part where another country's welfare is your problem, Israel.
Also, obesity is no justification for dropping bombs on their food reserves. Otherwise every Walmart in the US would be a bombed out crater.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I fail to see the part where another country’s welfare is your problem, Israel.

It's their problem because its occupied territory. Under the Geneva Conventions, what they're doing should have invoked an international intervention years ago. Israel has been able to dictate what moves into and out of Gaza for over a decade and explicitly calculated calories entering the region as a means of gradually starving out the population.

Wikileaks has published diplomatic cables that showed Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza's economy "on the brink of collapse" while avoiding a humanitarian crisis. To circumvent the blockade, Palestinians have brought in tonnes of goods through smuggling tunnels dug under Gaza's border with Egypt.

This was, incidentally, one of the provocations of the Oct 7th attacks. Gazans were starving. They broke out across the militarized border to raid for food and other basic living supplies.

[–] Thrillhouse@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

I’d like to see that guy last more than 2 hours without food. Unbelievable.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 weeks ago

Any other wild takes? Is Hamas hiding the Fountain of Youth? Do they coordinate Iranian weapons shipments with the Mothman?

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I guess Israel slaughtered enough innocent Palestinians that it could be true.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

What’s funny is cheap bad sources of food fuel obesity. That’s why America is so fat. All the cheap food is terrible for you and subsidized by the government, so that you’ll need diabetes medication for your entire life enriching the health insurance and big pharma companies.

Sorry, slightly off topic, and obligatory fuck Israel.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

That's a great headline

[–] buwho@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

dudes chin could end global starvation

[–] Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 2 weeks ago

Gaza certainly doesn't have enough food to even survive, but Hamas very well could've hoarded a lot of food

[+] Limerance@piefed.social -7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

COGAT tracks the numbers of trucks and goods entering Gaza and provides nice graphs. For the last couple of months there have always been trucks full of aid waiting on the Gaza side of the border for collection. So even if no new trucks are coming in, there will be some aid available to be collected and distributed.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Israel both blocks the trucks from collection after letting them in, and lies about the amount they enter. But also your link is broken mr 2 hour old Hasbara account.

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/15/nx-s1-5035998/gaza-israel-food-aid-piling-up-not-reaching-those-in-need

KEREM SHALOM CROSSING, ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER — More than a dozen empty flatbed trucks from Gaza rumble through the opening in the massive concrete wall that marks the border here. They park on the Israeli side and forklift drivers jump into action, loading huge sacks of flour, along with boxes of watermelons, mangoes, tomatoes and onions. Within 30 minutes, the trucks turn around and drive the short distance back into Gaza.

This scene plays out multiple times daily at Kerem Shalom, now the main artery supplying Gaza with food and medicine. All this activity raises hope that needed aid will reach the more than 2 million Palestinians trapped inside Gaza.

But here's the catch: Much of this humanitarian aid is piling up on the Gaza side of the border instead of traveling the last few miles to those suffering in the 10th month of the war between Israel and Hamas

[+] Limerance@piefed.social -6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

your link is broken

https://gaza-aid-data.gov.il/

Hasbara

You post links to Middle East Monitor, a notorious propaganda website.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you got any reputable sources which is not the people committing genocide? What's next citing the Nazis about the Holocaust not being real?

[–] Limerance@piefed.social -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What credible organization doubts COGAT numbers?

They are the only ones who have a total count. UNRWA or WFP on their own know about their own trucks, not those of other organizations, or even commercial trucks.

citing the Nazis about the Holocaust

The Nazis meticulously documented the Holocaust. That's why we know so much about it.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/combating-holocaust-denial-evidence-of-the-holocaust-presented-at-nuremberg

During the trial, the perpetrators themselves never said that the Holocaust did not happen. Rather, they tended to absolve themselves of individual guilt. Neither they nor their defense attorneys claimed that the mass murder of Europe’s Jews did not happen.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The credible organisation 'The UN'

Israel and U.N. disagree over Gaza aid figures

While Israel says the number of trucks entering Gaza has risen sharply in recent days, the U.N. has given much lower figures, and says it is still far less than the amount required to meet humanitarian needs.

While Israel said 419 trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Monday, the main U.N. agency there, UNRWA, said only 223 trucks had come in on that day.

Do you know what the sentence 'wir haben er nicht gewust' means? The Nazis were not nearly as meticulous in their documentation as your fantasy leads you to believe. Israel has documented the Gaza genocide far far better than the Nazis have.

[–] Limerance@piefed.social -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That is seriously bad faith. Keep reading.

"The U.N.'s incorrect numbers are a result of their flawed counting method. Rather than counting the actual number of trucks that enter the Gaza Strip, in an attempt to conceal their logistical distribution difficulties, they only count the trucks that they have picked up from the Gazan side of the border," COGAT said in a statement.

On Tuesday, Jens Laerke the spokesperson for the U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA said the Israeli count was for trucks that were only partially filled to comply with its military's screening requirements. "COGAT counts what they screen and send across the border. We count trucks that arrive in our warehouses," Laerke said.

"Trucks that go in, screened by COGAT, are typically only half full. That is a requirement that they have put in place for screening purposes. When we count the trucks on the other side, when they have been reloaded, they are full," he said.

Other Israeli restrictions mean the trucks often do not move through the border and into warehouses in a single day, further complicating a clear count, Laerke said.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 weeks ago

Explain why Israel is blocking aid trucks without sounding like a Nazi 3.2.1 go.