…more context on the US drop, again from Dave Harden:
I can’t emphasize enough how insignificant the US air drops will be here. Not unless they ramp it up to multiple drops per day.
Meanwhile, Harden says that Israel has finally started to facilitate food convoys from the north, and reportedly over 200 trucks were allowed into Gaza, one of the biggest days in months. This is a good thing, and I hope it continues.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/04/europe/un-team-sexual-abuse-oct-7-hostages-intl/index.html
I’m sure someone will be by shortly with an explanation of how this isn’t that bad / isn’t what it looks like / was probably all made up by those nefarious Israelis anyway.
How much is planned to be dropped? You must know this to emphasize such a statement.
I’m sorry, do you truly think anyone is going to respond with “they deserved it” or “nope, obviously never happened”? Last I checked, there’s only one person completely okay with any atrocities committed by one side.
Everything in that article is atrocious. Does that really seem up for debate?
…everyone in this thread have 100% condemned the Hamas attacks of October the 7th and any atrocities that they committed. Including me.
Yet not everyone here condemns the atrocities committed by the IDF. Some even argue/explain how this isn’t that bad / isn’t what it looks like / was probably all made up by those nefarious Palestinians anyway.
How many drops have there been since Saturday?
Over 200 trucks went in today. Over 200 times what the US dropped a few days ago. And Gaza is needing 500 times that every single day.
Actions speak louder than words.
Moderating:
Please stick to the topic, and don’t drop accusations about other posters.
Did the trucks deliver to the air drop location? Did they have MRE’s which contain a day’s worth of food for one person or sacks of flour that require storage and preperation?
Actions do speak louder than words when you can target food the those who need it most.
…again: the airdrop location was in the Israeli designated “safe zone”, the place that is probably the easiest part of Gaza to get aid too right now.
One would hope that the airdrops would contain supplies that the humanitarian agencies on the ground thinks would be the most appropriate. Unfortunately, according to US spokespeople they didn’t coordinate with anyone on the ground.
Shame they didn’t do that. The food from that airdrop? 33,000 meals? It was used and consumed five days ago. Since then the small NGO I talked about above has sent in 750,000 meals.
The Times of Israel 5-Mar 2024
US makes second Gaza aid airdrop, in joint operation with Jordan and Egypt
Over 36,000 meals dropped in northern Gaza, ‘an area of great need,’ US military announces; Biden says US pulling out every stop for more humanitarian assistance in enclave
After Saturday’s airdrop focused on southern Gaza, Tuesday’s airdrop targeted northern Gaza, which has been largely cut off from humanitarian assistance as Israel seeks to prevent a resurgence of Hamas activity in areas that were once strongholds for the terror group.
The videos of food sent in by truck shows people doling out some kind of flour into whatever containers the people bring with them. MRE’s are packets of already prepped food that can be served from the package.
They were consumed by people in remotes areas that needed it the most.
…they need flour!
With flour they can make bread! And they can eat bread!
Send them in as well!
They need 500 trucks of aid per day. Send it all in.
They were dropped in Al-Mawasi, the designated safe zone that Israel have been telling the citizens of Gaza to head to since the start of the war. Its only “remote” in the sense that there was nothing there at the start of the war, but has had to set up infrastructure to support the influx of people escaping the violence of the north.
It isn’t where the aid is most needed. That would be up in the north.
It’s remote in the sense that they aren’t getting trucks. they’re also planning on food movements by sea this week. As for the flights, there were 20 in the last 2 weeks all targeting areas that are hard to get trucks to.
Bread is time consuming to make and requires stoves and containers to make. Bread also lacks nutrition.
And I posted that they dropped the 2nd load in the North today. You’ll note the first drop was along the water’s edge and was a test drop to monitor how it was processed. That would also serve the upcoming food movement from the Sea.
…you claimed it was dropped in “areas that needed it the most.” That isn’t Al-Mawasi. People are dying of malnutrition in the north. The food is most desperately needed in the north. Trucks are unable to get to the north. Trucks can get to Al-Mawasi.
Any food at the moment would be welcome.
But getting more trucks in and securing humanitarian corridors will get the aid to people in Gaza faster.
As in 20 flights from the US? Or 20 flights all up?
Well its not as if Palestinians living in tents have got a job to go to during the day. I can assure you that the “time to make bread” is the very least of the problems at the moment. Time isn’t the problem. A sack of flour is infinitely more useful than a single MRE.
Wow. A second truckload already? Two truckloads of food in just under a week?
The United States of America is really showcasing why it’s the worlds only real superpower here.
Its not a fucking science experiment. Its not the hunger games. There are established humanitarian agencies on the ground that don’t need to do multiple “tests” to figure out what people will do when you randomly drop food on their heads. Only the strongest and most able will benefit from these random, under resourced food drops. Again: any aid at this point is welcome. But let’s not pretend that this is a significant effort.
It was a logistics test. Literally.
It was 2 airlifts 3 days apart with more to follow. Your sarcasm not withstanding.
Well then they should be doing the airdrops. Problem solved.
…“logistics” as in “a test drop to monitor how it was processed” as in “what would people do when food is randomly dropped on their heads?”
It was two truckloads. And maybe a few more truckloads sometime, perhaps.
More specifically, the United States should be coordinating with these humanitarian agencies asking “how can we help?” Not reinventing the wheel and doing their own thing.
Well there’s a war on so yes, they monitored the drop to see if it was dispersed as intended.
The drops are coordinated between Egypt and Jordan.
…from David Harden again:
Egypt and Jordan are not on the ground in Gaza.