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Jeez. There’s a ship bringing food to Palestinian civilians and the IDF has stormed itIt's normal to CHECK ships during a war, in fact, it's normal to check ships in peacetime..
On October 7 Hamas used ships to raid a music festival and murdered 360 teenagers and raped and tortured hundreds of others. I can understand why they are checking ships.
There is already food aid in Gaza, it just needs to be distributed. https://news.sky.com/story/aid-is-sitting-idle-in-gaza-where-there-is-now-widespread-malnutrition-13401481
I don’t know how trustworthy the info is that says there’s enough food. There obviously isn’t, people are starving. I do believe there are probably groups or gangs (hamas included) that may have taken control of some food, intercepting deliveries, and are hoarding it. Because the reality is that in situations of scarcity human behaviour very quickly descends to individualism and violence. This means those who have higher physical strength, weapons, aggression, connections to form a violent group, are going to attempt to acquire and control resources for themselves and their associates. If there was enough food, their hoarding would be pointless, there would be no incentive. The solution to the hoarding and the starvation is easy. More food.
There were some reports of people being fired on when they tried to get the food. There are ‘pauses’ in the fighting now but I don’t think the situation would be much better
the reports are false
the people shot at were 500 metres away from food stations
there is video footage of Hamas shooting at Gazan people and then IDF returning fire to Hamas
you think Haaretz is lying?
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000
How do you know? What's your source?
How trustworthy is information from Hamas?
I wouldn’t have much trust in it. They are playing the politically war as much as the physical one too. It’s hard for any of us that are not there to know what is reliable information. But for me, I think the more neutral bodies like UN, aid agencies, journalists might be able to make observations and if you average them out that’s probably as best as a person can do.