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Canada did an air drop and Israeli soldiers shot at people reaching the drops. It was a slaughter. Canada foreign affairs minister tried to talk to their government afterwards and apparently the discussion was "very frustrating".
I doubt this will go any differently.
Got a source for that claim?
I'm trying to find the article but i can't find it in my history. I could swear the article I read was modified. It clearly said our foreign minister had a call with Israel's foreign minister about a Gazan massacre while they were getting aid and she said the call was frustrating. But the whole article was cut in half.
It wasn't an air drop though. It was an aid convoy.
This is some 1984 shit. News being rewritten to remove facts.
If you suspect that it’s been modified, try going to places like the internet archive or archivetoday to check. The claims you’ve made seem big, so back them up with sources.
Ok but still... How the fuck are we supposed to back our fucking claims when governments are putting pressure on news and information media to modify their articles to cut out incriminating information about Israel or any other state???? This is some 1984 level bullshit.
We should be scared of this. This is wrong!!!
How can you ask for a fucking source then??? How are you supposed to believe what you see?
2+2=5 at this point. Fuck this.
I know it feels bad in the world, but the person you're responding to already gave you the answer to your questions.
Honestly it's more likely that you missremembered or maybe the article was incorrect and it was fixed.
Better than truck delivery by the trigger-happy IDF.
Realistically Gaza needs aid deliveries by truck to have any hope for survival. Airdrops will help, but the volume of aid needed requires more efficient delivery methods.
Hopefully another group will step in to provide security, but it’s hard to imagine who that could be.
They need huge container ships unloading containers. But ya, no port, sea is blocked off.
We are funding and facilitating the genocide. What is the fucking point of pretending to patch up the wounds we are causing? Why not just STOP facilitating the murder?
38,000 meals for 2 million people?
At least it's something?
It's a token action. Benefit of the doubt right now, since it's early, and you need to ramp up things like this. But then, Israel was letting trucks with aid in. All 10 of them a day. Only under pressure from other countries they stepped it up, but it was never a full-blown open border for aid.
Until we see actual, meaningful drops, including medicine to hospitals, including food, including everything that's needed, I'll be sceptical.
West Berlin was supplied in 1948 with crazy amounts of resources, with according to wiki, dropping 7000 tons of stuff daily (record was 12000 in a day) in total flying 250000 times. And that's literally right after World War 2. West Berlin also had around 2 million people.
Edit: for context, if they dropped only rice which is very nutritious, they dropped like 25 tons.
Oh don't get me wrong, it absolutely needs to be better. It's bullshit that we can't figure out how to not have war in the world when there's so many resources.
I dream of world peace but fear it may never truly come.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
TEL AVIV, Israel - The U.S. military on Saturday said it began dropping food over the Gaza Strip, a war-torn enclave desperate for humanitarian aid.
A "a combined humanitarian assistance airdrop into Gaza" of over 38,000 meals along the coastline using C-130 aircraft was conducted by U.S. and Jordanian air forces, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
President Biden on Friday said the U.S. would carry out airdrops in coming days, "redouble our efforts to open a maritime corridor, and expand deliveries by land."
The routes to take aid in by land rely on a number of factors, such as border crossings, availability of drivers in Gaza to receive the trucks and drive the supplies where they need to go as well as having clearance from the Israeli military for safe passage.
This is likely why deliveries have been aimed at beaches, but sometimes, as with the airdrops by Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and France, that results in aid falling into the sea.
"A team on the ground ensures the drop zone is clear and gives the crew onboard the aircraft the green light to release the cargo.
The original article contains 669 words, the summary contains 192 words. Saved 71%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
They wouldn't be getting shit if we weren't a week before super Tuesday. This is about saving face, not lives
So the US gives some food to Palestinians, and plenty of bombs & money to Zionists (while they are accused of Genocide and ICJ said "plaussible" they are doing one).
I think I will start using the acronym USBSI (US Backed State of Israel). UBSI maybe? I dunno, open to suggestions!
everybody's a smarty pants.. nice job risking your necks to deliver food, but it really could have been better..
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