U.S. military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation
U.S. military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation
Three planes from Air Forces Central dropped 66 bundles containing about 38,000 meals into Gaza on Saturday.
"Three U.S. C-130 cargo planes dropped 66 total bundles, equating to about 38,000 pork-free meals, into the territory on Saturday morning. The bundles were split between three planes, the official said."
"The airdrop is expected to be the first of many announced by President Joe Biden on Friday. The aid will be coordinated with Jordan, which has also conducted airdrops to deliver food to Gaza."
Fund the weapons from one side and then buy media karma by dropping aid packages to the other side. It truly is election season.
It sucks that the other option would rather drop more bombs rather than food.
All it takes to stop Trump is for a single person, Joe Biden, to stop helping Israel genocide Palestinians.
I mean, even if Joe Biden is helping Israel out of Principle (whatever genocide-loving "principle" that is) and would have to swallow that principle to "stop Trump", it says a lot that Joe Biden refuses to do so and has his team running around demanding that millions of Americans are the ones who swallow their Principles "to stop Trump".
Israel says many of the dead were trampled in a chaotic crush for food aid, and its troops fired warning shots after the crowd moved toward them in a threatening way.
So we are totally uncritically accepting their narrative now, got it.
So we are totally uncritically accepting their narrative now, got it.
I dont know if you are following the current NYT drama or not but this article and its underpinnings have been forming up since the 7th.
Basically several NYT and BBC (bbc not covered in the above) stories and articles have been show to be basically plants.
Then there is the shockingly uncritical way that the US government took the Israeli report on UNRRA, that upon any inspection, has 0 evidence attached to it.
Its a total shit show. If it wasn't actual fascism on the line at the ballot box this November, I wouldn't be voting for Joe Biden, and even then, he makes it harder to stomach every week.
I live in a red state. Republicans have made me actually worry about my children's future in more ways than one. I will be lining up to vote for Democrats for the foreseeable future unless there's a truly radical candidate running D (maybe RFK Jr if he ever runs).
I hate that my choice is to vote against my children or not. I wish both parties were rational. Instead the real election is the primaries. And this year there basically wasn't one.
I don't like how the news gives so much credence to what they say. But at least they'll usually qualify it with "Israel says" or "IDF says" so we know it's bullshit.
Edit: Oh and anything ADL. Although that one is less obviously BS for those that don't know who they are.
How is quoting someone/thing "uncritically accepting their narrative"? They're telling you what Israel said. It's up to you to believe it or not, but it's journalistic malpractice to just not report the alleged justification from one of the parties involved. What are you asking for, exactly?
Because it doesn't include the other widely reported quotes about 80% of victims being injured by gunfire not crush injuries.
Selection and omission of quotes is absolutely a form of bias.
If it isn't evidenced it's not a fact. If it's not a fact you're editorialising.
There are sometimes reasons not to evidence a statement. But a disputed statement is not something which should get included in a news article.
I’m not. But that’s just gonna divorce me even more fully from the current American zeitgeist and ensure I’ll be even more completely isolated.
So if I give an arsonist a can of gasoline and some matches, which he then uses to burn my neighbor's house down; and I then give my neighbor a PB&J... am I a good guy or bad guy?
Don't get me wrong - please don't stop sending the PB&Js, but could we please stop giving supplies to the fucking arsonist??
Any help is better than none, that's obvious. However, 38,000 meals is not NEARLY sufficient when the UN's humanitarian office lists 2.2 million Palestinians at Crisis or worse levels of food insecurity (stage 3 of 5), of which over 500,000 are at the Catastrophe level (stage 5, the most serious before death). So you can see it would take 14 drops of that size (and each meal would have to get to the right people) to feed only the over 500,000 most desperately starving people a single meal, much less a day's worth of food.
The same report says there is no access to clean water in northern Gaza. There is also a lack of medicine with hundreds of thousands of people dangerously ill.
The only remotely sustainable solution is to follow the advice humanitarian agencies have been giving this whole time - allow MANY more trucks into the region. There were about 500 aid trucks entering Gaza daily prior to Oct. 7th - since then it's very roughly 10-30% of that most days. If Biden and the rest of the Western powers actually want to turn this crisis around, they are going to have to pressure Israel to immediately open up crossings and stop interfering with aid delivery. I sincerely hope this is just the start of a much more concerted humanitarian effort than has been allowed. Otherwise I'm afraid these air drops will be little more than a political trick done so that people can say, "but look, we helped!"
Here's a guy named Steve, eating and reviewing one of these humanitarian rations, in case anyone was curious:
And with really good sound quality too, since they're also ASMR vids.
Man.. Steve is a treasure.
Such a wonderful channel.
Well that was an interesting watch. He seems like a gem of a lad. Seemed to genuinely like the food and it did all sound appetising tbh.
Food for Palestine! Bombs for Israel! We're helping stop the Genocide!
Tons of bombs for Israel, 1.5% of one day's food need for Gaza.
"See, we're the Good Guys!!!"
Spending millions of dollars of relief aid for the millions of dollars of genocidal actions they funded that caused for a need for relief aid in the first place.
This is like the Mafia sending you flowers in the hospital after they broke your knees.
Do you think that this genocide wouldn't have happened if thr US didn't supply weapons?
Do you think that this genocide wouldn't have happened if [the] US didn't supply weapons?
It likely would've happened no matter what, but not on such a massive scale.
Edit: This might explain the downvotes. (NSFW - language)
Robert Ford, a former US ambassador to Algeria and Syria wrote on X that being forced to carry out airdrops on Gaza (instead of delivering supplies by truck) was “Israel’s worst humiliation of the USA I’ve ever seen”.
No offense. But that's just about the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time. (I know you're just the messenger.)
Us begging for Israel to stop genocide, them telling us "fuck off", and then aiding Israel anyways is FAR more humiliating. Why is every politician not named Bernie Sanders Israel's bitch?
It's really embarrassing that Netanyahu makes Biden kneel for him like this, but this was worse
Ambassador Robert Ford (retired) spent his entire diplomatic career in the Middle East and North Africa since 1985, including being appointed as Ambassador to Syria by Obama, and by Bush Jr as Ambassador to Algeria.
He’s dead right, and I don’t know how anybody is calling this a victory for anyone except the few mouths this limited aid can help. The whole world saw an American ”Strategic Ally” treat us the same as countries they went to war with several times.
Bretton Woods and the Pax Americana is starting to crumble, while the Global South is watching. This is an incredible display of US weakness on the global stage, not the ‘they/them army’ the alt-right pretends is an issue. Biden’s inability or unwillingness here is astounding - he can’t/won't pressure an “ally” to not starve civilians to death, while the international community looks for any American leadership to break the deadlock on the ground in Gaza and the UNSC.
Empires be like imtooweak.meme
It'll be easier to stop the starvation and genocide to begin with
Please tell me those aren't fucking MAGAt hats. 🤦🏼♂️
You can't really see it clearly but my guess would be it's a unit hat. The military issues soldiers unit hats to wear as an alternative to normal headgear sometimes. It's a morale thing since the unit caps tend to be more like baseball caps than military headgear.
here is a shot of some air force civil engineers wearing their unit hats.
Army parachute riggers wear those red hats so they can be picked out of the crowd to assist paratroopers. It could be them or their equivalent in the Air Force, but I'm not sure if Air Force riggers wear the same hats or not.
The people in the photo are rigging the chutes on those pallets and are either Army or Air Force based on the camouflage pattern.
So about 3% of a single day's need for food in Gaza. Guess the other 97% of Gazan's can starve.
Complete total "we'll helping Gazans, vote for me" bullshit from Biden.
Genocide-loving and a complete total hypocrite.
38.000 For 400.000 people?
They're spending more on the media campaign for this than the airdrop itself
I think you are seriously underestimating just how expensive the airdrops are. It’s not an adequate solution, but it is something that will help prevent some people from starving to death.
If only there was another less expensive way 🤔
Yes, yes, Palestinians are lucky to have US' help. If it wasn't for US, they could avoid genocide against them, but on the other hand they would miss these free goodies.