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.

  • tpihkal@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2049·
    8 months 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.

    • jonneEnglish
      201·
      8 months 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
      2115·
      8 months 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
        1624·
        8 months 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
          246·
          8 months 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·
            8 months 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
              137·
              8 months 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…