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[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know what you mean by "most of the population" but a million-plus people dying of dehydration, starvation, or treatable illness isn't a better look than people dying in a ground assault. If anything, it's more cruel. I'm not defending it (using food and water as a weapon against a population is a war crime) but I could make a case that increasing desperation could benefit them. If deaths are even a fraction of that though, their already-shaky international support would collapse.

but a million-plus people dying of dehydration, starvation, or treatable illness isn’t a better look than people dying in a ground assault.

well you can just say: "It's a side effect of war, HAMAS can use those resources too! we cannot allow that to happen", but when your troops are on the ground and can see what they're killing Al-Jazeera becomes a problem.

The same can be applied to airstrikes: "They cannot see what they're hitting"

their already-shaky international support would collapse.

I can assure you that they can kill nearly anyone in the middle east at this point and that won't happen, they can kill an entire population and they will get away with it if they do it over a long enough period of time.

increasing desperation could benefit them.

You might be right, it looks like the invasion is very close.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No, no, no.

All the people dying of dehydration, starvation, or treatable illness because Israel neither lets them out nor lets anywhere near enough humanitarian aid in (only about 5% of what is needed and that didn't last a week before being stopped) are the fault of Hamas because they're being used as Human Shields^(tm?)^

/s