That's why it's doubly shameful of Germany to have this stance, and also a great pity. Germany calling out Israel for it's genocide would be as strong a rebuke as South Africa calling out Israel for Apartheid.

Sure. We all know that when Israel says militants they mean unarmed children, women and men

True. But i would add the extra detail that all the land stolen from Palestinians by Israel should be returned.

In South Africa that wasn't done. We had land and a house that my grandfather built up by himself in what is now one the most expensive suburbs in Cape Town. That land was stolen from us and never returned.

And it hurts so much everytime we have to go past there because there are rich white folks living there now. And we know we'll never be able to afford that land now no matter how hard we work. Now we struggle to even leave a home for our children to inherit.

I don't want that happening to the Palestinians again.

Spamming the comment section with pro israeli comments or even just muddying the waters. I've seen it with a few posters, including rivermonster. It distracts those reading from the real issue being discussed, usually israeli crimes against humanity.

And some people still deny that Israel is a terrorist state. And they will still defend and justify Israel's murder and maiming of babies, children, women and men.

This makes me extremely happy. Hopefully other countries follow.

But also a very important point made in the article: a break in diplomatic ties with israel is just the start. The world needs to boycott, divest and sanction israel.

I still believe it’s the US and Norway that blew it up. The US can’t be seen to be attacking Europe and Russia so Ukraine is going to be a convenient fall guy for them.

The US had the motive and the means, and biden even slipped up before the war and said that if Russia attacked, the US would destroy Nordstream.

I love how he spoke calmly and clearly, and backed up by facts

I think you're getting confused. Before the creation of Israel there were jewish palestinians, and Christian Palestinians and muslim Palestinians. And then the apartheid ethnostate of Israel was created, and israel made everyone who was not jewish a 2nd class citizen or a refugee.

Before the creation of israel people of the three faiths were living together in Palestine.

So i'm quite sure the problem is actually israel

Ok i understand. I'm from south africa. And for all the very many things that my government gets wrong this is not one of them. My government openly stands with palestine.

While it is a start, the amount of humanitarian aid israel is allowing in is a tiny fraction of what is really needed. The red crescent will have to prioritise the hospitals at this time most likely.

I believe one of the analysts on al jazeera said that the border crossing will only be open for humanitarian aid for about 6 hours? And also that rafah border crossing can't accommodate the big humanitarian aid trucks, so they have to use smaller trucks. So that also limits capacity of aid.

The big trucks usually go through the other border crossing that egypt shares with israel, but that one is closed. The name escapes me at the moment.

Edit: also, what the other commenter ssid is true; is it really going to happen this time? And will israel bomb this convoy of aid as well or will it be allowed to go to the palestinians in gaza?

Copying my reply from higher up in the thread:

it’s only to one area of Khan Yunis in Gaza. And the infrastructure is destroyed there, so people are unable to get to the water as of yet. Palestinians are also reiterating that without electricity for the water pumps they’re unable to get water from the tanks