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.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    504·
    8 months ago

    Civilization is 3 missed meals from collapse…

    Usually this quote is a warning about preparing for natural disasters, we don’t usually have humans trying to design total social collapse on their neighbors.

    • 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…