Yeah. The headline is not surprising. The article has some pretty useful information about how the horror is being conducted and the types of lies that are distracting until it's done, though. Among other things, we (the US) are apparently directly assisting with it on the ground now.

After receiving much criticism over the increased threat of famine that its siege had inflicted on Gaza, Israel, along with its US ally, backed the creation of the GHF in May.

The GHF was intended to replace the UN and international aid agencies, which have operated some 400 aid distribution points across Gaza, with four erratically operated distribution points in Gaza’s centre and south.

Since May, the Israeli military and private contractors, understood to be American, have killed more than 1,000 people trying to access food at GHF distribution points.

There are still some limited UN aid distribution operations, but they are so severely restricted that their effect cannot be felt.

I'm sorely tempted to go back to six months ago, when a lot of the same Lemmy people who didn't want to vote for Democrats, because that meant they could save Palestine, were still stricken with lingering confusion from that mindset and somehow trying to say that Trump was doing better than even the horror of genocide enablement that Biden had been doing. And dig up their statements from back then and ask them about it.

It's probably just bitterness, not necessary, though. What's the point. But yes, back then I predicted this, that the genocide already underway would dramatically accelerate, and potentially under Trump would be the time when Gaza reached its final and permanent end. I really fucking hope I'm wrong, but what's to stop it? It is happening now, undeterred so far.

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Broadly, I think that this has been Israel's goal since the start, and that it was apparent when they bombed the al-Ahli hospital (and denied responsibility, only later to recant).

From the start, they intended to kill as many Palestinians as possible - hundreds of thousands if not millions - and since they predicted that not even their legions of morally bankrupt international defenders could protect them from condrmnation if they did it through mass executions, they instead systematically snd deliberately set sbout destroying infrastructure and hospitals, stopping aid by driving out existing aid distribution organizations and taking over and closing all border crossings, and herding the population into the smallest possible space so that starvation and disease would do the bulk of the killing for them.

They are, right now, doing exactly what they planned on doing from the start, and toward the goal toward which they've been deliberately working from the start - the complete destruction of the Palestinian people and the full annexation of Gaza.

And in fact, I have zero doubt that that's why they've recently walked away from negotiations - because Hamas, entirely justifiably, will not back down from their demand that any deal must include Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, and they have, and have had since day one, no intention of ever withdrawing.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah. The whole thing of Hamas even having to take part in "cease fire" negotiations is just cruel theater. I get why they're doing it, they can't just walk away while people are dying, but Israel has 0% intention of honoring any kind of "cease fire," now or ever, it's just part of the smokescreen which a lot of the Western news is lapping up and dutifully reporting on as if it mattered.