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hareofhrair · 2 days

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Good morning everybody~ I’m once again here to beg for food money… Really hoping next month is better, but I gotta eat and keep gas in the truck for another few days, so anything you can spare would be greatly appreciated. I think I can manage doodle requests if yall would like them in exchange for donations.

#signal boost #food money #food aid #mutual aid #donate if you can #reblog if you can’t

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hassanac33 · 2 months

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#aid #food aid #military aid #gaza #israel #free palestine #support palestine #palestine #israel is an apartheid state #palestinian genocide #free gaza #this is genocide #gazaunderattack

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cavalierzee · 1 month

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Gazan Expresses Joy After Receiving Bread

A Palestinian from northern Gaza expresses his joy getting white bread for the first time in five months amid the ongoing Israeli war of starvation on the region.

. Source: Quds News Network

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secular-jew · 2 months

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The Truth about Aid Flowing into Gaza. By Barry Shaw: The View from Israel

As Melanie Phillips aptly put it,

"In the remorseless attempt to demonise Israel, humanitarian aid has become the blood libel of the day."

Israel says there is no limit to the number of aid trucks being allowed into Gaza. The hold-ups at the crossing points are because the UN is struggling to distribute the aid.

That is because it uses the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, which is controlled by Hamas.

Israel's COGAT says that, over the past two weeks, almost 50% more food trucks have entered Gaza than before the start of the war.

On Wednesday, 257 trucks entered. Over the past few days, more than 100 trucks were transferred to the northern part of the Strip. Over the past two weeks, the number of operational bakeries in Gaza doubled from 10 to 20, providing more than 2.5 million breads per day to the population.

From the start of the war, more than 750 packages of humanitarian aid have been delivered by 25 airdrops mounted by an alliance of Israel, the US, the UAE, Egypt, Jordan and France. None from Britain!

The media is showing a deeply biased, deliberately selective, picture of Gaza.

COGAT, which co-ordinates Israeli government activities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, published a video of Gazans queuing up at a plentiful shawarma stand in Rafah.

Social media footage has shown well-stocked Rafah markets. There have also been videos of Gazans contemptuously throwing air-dropped ready-to-eat meals into the trash.

Hamas hijacks the trucks and steals the food and other supplies, either for itself or to sell to the population on the black market.

On social media, there are videos of aid trucks being commandeered by armed men. There are also videos of Egyptian drivers warning others not to drive aid trucks into Gaza because they are being attacked with rocks hurled through their windscreens, leaving some badly injured and even killed.

This has nothing to do with Israel.

It has everything to do with the impotence of the UN and other international aid organisations that have been in Gaza for decades.

Even US officials are admitting that Hamas is stealing the aid that the Biden administration is falsely accusing Israel of failing to provide.

One senior official told journalists that the problem was with distribution once the 250 to 300 truckloads of assistance got into Gaza. He said: “This is a product of, if you will, commercialisation of the assistance; criminal gangs are taking it, looting it, reselling it. They’ve monetised humanitarian assistance. … The food is there; it’s coming in”.

David Satterfield, the senior US diplomat involved in humanitarian assistance for Gaza, acknowledged that police escorts for aid deliveries include Hamas members, and that Hamas has been using other aid delivery channels to “shape where and to whom assistance goes.”

Israel is being scapegoated for the war crimes of Hamas. Scapegoating the Jews is the consistent and defining motif of antisemitism through the ages.

Israel’s media spokesman Eylon Levy said this week: “We will accept being scapegoated no longer.” Israel isn’t on its knees. The Jews of Britain and America should get up from theirs and publicly tell Cameron and Blinken the same thing.

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phoenixyfriend · 2 months

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Okay, following up on that news I saw earlier. I first was alerted to it by the BBC Global News Podcast and Al Jazeera News Updates. For easier reference and more detail, however, I will be referring to this article from AP News for details, which itself references this article that cites the Washington Post.

Things of note:

This seems to have been caused by the recent incident where over 115 Palestinians were killed, and over 750 injured, by the IDF during a reported stampede by starving civilians trying to get to aid trucks.

The air drops will begin "in the coming days," and will start with MREs (military rations).

There will be multiple rounds, according to John Kirby.

The process will be done in conjunction with Jordan, which shares the longest of Israel's borders, the Eastern. (That part isn't in the article but I don't know how many people actually know where Jordan is.)

The US admits that it doesn't... know what it's doing? And is basically going to learn on the job. Not super promising but better than nothing. Most of the concern seems to be that the extreme crowding will increase the risk of injury; I assume dropping large pallets of supplies is easier when there's a lot of empty space, and smaller, less dangerous packages mean dropping less at a time since more space is needed in the planes for the parachutes.

Planes airdropping supplies is in itself MUCH LESS efficient than truck deliveries for this reason.

They're also hoping to set up a "maritime corridor" but there's no real word on how that's going to be achieved other than the ceasefire talks.

The U.S. has been pushing Israel to speed the flow of humanitarian assistance into Gaza and to open a third crossing into the territory, but Friday’s violence showed the challenges no matter the circumstances. “The loss of life is heartbreaking,” Biden said Friday as he announced his decision to order airdrops. “People are so desperate.”

Additionally, the second article has more details on the concerns that kept airdrops from being implemented earlier:

“Aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough,” Biden said. “Now, it’s nowhere nearly enough. Innocent lives are on the line and children’s lives are on the line. We won’t stand by until we get more aid in there. We should be getting hundreds of trucks in, not just several.” The White House, State Department and Pentagon had been weighing the merits of U.S. military airdrops of assistance for several months, but had held off due to concerns that the method is inefficient, has no way of ensuring the aid gets to civilians in need and cannot make up for overland aid deliveries. [...] “It’s not the kind of thing you want to do in a heartbeat. you want to think it through carefully,” Kirby said. He added, “There’s few military operations that are more complicated than humanitarian assistance airdrops”

The second article also discusses how domestic conflicts, namely Speaker Johnson's refusal to address foreign crises until "taking care of America's needs" (paraphrase), have been delaying much of what could have been done before now.

#united states #gaza #israel #palestine #jordan #middle east #Joe Biden #John Kirby #death mention #aid #food aid #phoenix politics #current events

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lilithism1848 · 2 months

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fiapple · 2 months

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BREAKING! This just happened so it’s hard to find information about it at the time of writing (10:35 am pacific, 03/03/2024) but there has been another aid massacre comitted against the Palestinian people! ALL EYES ON PALESTINE!

#free palestine #gaza genocide #free gaza #gaza strip #aid massacre #israeli war crimes #israel is a terrorist state #all eyes on palestine #fuck israel #israeli terrorism #abolish israel #end the occupation #food aid #gaza #aid #strarvation #genocide #palestine #massacre

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claraameliapond · 2 months

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Endless number of food aid trucks sitting, waiting at the border in Rafah to go into Gaza, stopped and consistently denied entry by Israel.

This is Sadistic forced starvation.

Decolonise Palestine 🇵🇸🕊🍉🫒🍉🫒🍉🫒🍉🫒🍉🫒🍉🕊🇵🇸

Decolonise Palestine

#Palestine #Free Palestine #Gaza #Free Gaza #Food aid #Food aid trucks #Aid tricks #Rafah #Human rights #Human rights violations #Israel is a terrorist state #Israel #Watermelon 🍉#🍉 🇵🇸#Decolonise Palestine #Ceasefire #Ceasefire now #Forced starvation

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texaschainsawmiracle · 4 months

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Hi again my friends!! Guess who had to start paying for their medication out of pocket, and used the last of their savings to pay rent…and now can’t afford groceries.

Haven’t worked since the 15th and because the next pay period covers shifts until the 24th, my next paycheck is gonna be $0. If you have anything to spare AT ALL please consider donating to my p*ypal or through my c*shapp / v*nmo @ wheatleyhastings

I would really appreciate if you could share this post.

#mutual aid #donate #emergency aid #food aid

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girlactionfigure · 3 months

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Another Gaza charity thanks donors from Malaysia. Bread and meat for distribution to children in Gaza. Or so he says.

I can't understand the way he treats the food, frankly. Even without scarcity, shouldn't food be treated with respect? Especially when from foreign donors.

#Israel #October 7 #Gaza #Food Aid

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cavalierzee · 1 month

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Starving Gaza Is A Weapon Of War

“The Israeli government has created a situation where famine is now imminent in Gaza.

This is not happening because the rains have failed or there has been a poor harvest.

It is because starvation is being used as a weapon of war; the Israeli authorities refuse to allow enough food into Gaza to sustain life.”

– Melanie Ward, MAP’s CEO

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secular-jew · 10 days

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Almost every media headline and story (The NY Times, The Gaurdian, Associated Press) repeats the Hamas blood libel that Israel is intentionally starving 25% to 50% of Gaza.

Notwithstanding that Israel is attacking Hamas, Al-Qassam Brigades, and Islamic Jihad, terrorist military organizations that carried out barbaric massacres inside Israel, and that it in no way bears any responsibility for the Gazan population (perhaps Egypt should be opening its sealed border), Israel has facilitated almost 500,000 tons of aid into Gaza. More than half of this has been food related, which is enough food for the entire 2.2 million population for more than a year. In fact, Gaza is flush with food.

No one is hungry in Gaza unless they are intentionally on a food strike or starving themselves.

#israel #secular-jew #jewish #judaism #israeli #jerusalem #diaspora #secular jew #secularjew #islam #food aid #gaza plenty of food #plenty of food #too much food #gazans #gaza #gaza aid

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phoenixyfriend · 1 month

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Something I've been hearing a lot about on the news but haven't yet seen on Tumblr (maybe just my particular echo chamber hasn't heard about it), so hey, let's chat!

While debate is raging about America's airdrops and the temporary port, there is ALREADY an aid corridor by sea in use by an existing charity. The Spanish celebrity chef Jose Andres has a charity by the name of World Central Kitchen, which is dispatching barges from Cyprus to Gaza, holding 200 tonnes of food. There is a second barge in process already. WCK is working with the UAE and Cypriot governments, and a Spanish charity by the name of Proactiva Open Arms.

The charity is preparing a jetty in Gaza to receive aid which was almost 60 metres long, WCF founder Jose Andres said in a post on X late Wednesday. Unverified video posted on social media showed a bulldozer reversing over a hardpacked rubble jetty on the Gaza shore.

WCF says its initiative is unrelated to a larger multinational effort to set up a maritime aid corridor into Gaza.

In Nicosia, Cyprus foreign minister Constantinos Kombos said a high-level meeting would take place on March 21 to coordinate further distribution of aid.

(I'm not sure why the article switches from WCK to WCF. I'll assume it's a mistake because the author has WFP on the brain or something.)

This is pretty good news overall, but it's still only a patch on a massive problem, and I do have concerns about the distribution of aid once it's at the jetty, given the chaos on the ground.

Land crossings would still be best, but I'd like to share the news of good work by WCK with you guys.

#gaza #palestine #politics #charity #world central kitchen #jose andres #food aid #aid to gaza #Phoenix Politics #current events

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gelerthaver · 11 months

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just added two locations to this today so i wanted to remind everyone about fallingfruit. it's a collaborative, community driven map of edible forage with pinpoints all around the world directing you to wild edibles growing in your area.

some places have more pins, some have less. if there's not many in your area and you know somewhere that wild forage grows, add it! you don't need an account and can remain completely anonymous while enabling others in your area to collect fresh food that may otherwise not be noticed or enjoyed by anyone, and you may find some spots where you live that you didn't know about before :)

#forage #foraging #freegan #wild food #wild edibles #wild edible plants #mutual aid #food aid #fallingfruit #falling fruit #foragecore #forager #foragers #foragedfood #i don't normally tag this heavily on original posts but i <3 ff

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hassanac33 · 2 months

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#this is the part where food aid killed people #food aid #starvation #famine #free palestine #support palestine #palestine #israel is an apartheid state #palestinian genocide #free gaza #this is genocide #gazaunderattack #gaza #isreal

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