this continues an ongoing thread on Gaza
www.gransnet.com/forums/news_and_politics/a1347791-Israel-to-conquer-Gaza?msgid=31157292#31157292
The O/P read (in part)
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the population of Gaza will be displaced to the south after his security cabinet approved an expanded military operation in the enclave that a minister described as a plan to “conquer” the territory.
The vote on Sunday came hours after the military said it would mobilize tens of thousands of reservists, strengthening its capacity to operate in the besieged Palestinian territory.
“One thing will be clear: there will be no in-and-out,” Netanyahu said in a Monday video message posted on X. “We’ll call up reserves to come, hold territory — we’re not going to enter and then exit the area, only to carry out raids afterward. That’s not the plan. The intention is the opposite.”
We now have the aid crisis at the focus of world wide attention.
I have also asked that question on this thread for those who doubt reports
what sources are you using for your information its a very valid question.
Quote Maremia Mon 26-May-25 10:39:44
Annie, bombs aimed at schools and hospitals and refugee tents are bombs that kill children.
Hospitals and schools Where Hamas built their tunnels, where they had kept the hostages they released earlier this year
Bombs kill adults and children , fact
Maremia
Which sources do you trust? If we knew that, we could direct you to the reports on that media.
We?
Annie, bombs aimed at schools and hospitals and refugee tents are bombs that kill children.
Which sources do you trust? If we knew that, we could direct you to the reports on that media.
Yes, but how many of the dead and injured children were Hamas?
Maremia
You understimate the skill of Journalists. They understand manipulation, and can work around that. What they can't work around is being assassinated by IDF snipers.
And you wildly overestimate the skill of journalists.
Which reports?
That’s the whole problem, some will be true ( doctors and medics working there seeing injured and dead) but that’s all they will see.They don’t know which injured or dead man is hamas or any circumstances.
Nobody will deny that medics have had a hard time of it seeing so many injured people and distraught relatives.
You understimate the skill of Journalists. They understand manipulation, and can work around that. What they can't work around is being assassinated by IDF snipers.
So what about the reports coming from both the aid agencies and from those medical staff, who are not Palestinian, who were in Gaza working prior to the atrocities, are their reports not to be believed?
We wouldn’t get a fuller picture of the truth if any journalists were allowed into Gaza.Hamas would control them, as to where they could go, who they could see and who they could talk to.They would only get the hamas view.IDF cannot go in just anywhere to escort and protect journalists. Where would they all live and eat? All it would do at best is to cast a heap of doubt on anything at all.The journalists would be at the mercy of hamas both in the guise of innocent civilians feeding them false information and at risk of being taken as hostages.
Quote silverlining48 Mon 26-May-25 09:54:58
How many times does it have to be said that the hostages could and shoukd have been freed at the start of March, months ago, if only israel had not torn up the agreement they made.
If only Israel allowed foreign journalists into Gaza, we Woukd not have to depend on independent Gazan journalists, who risk their lives daily, many of whom Have been killed. They can only be afraid of what independent journalists would see? And report?
You have doubts about the info which has been coming from
Hamas ? The number of dead children given by Hamas government?
How many times does it have to be said that the hostages could and shoukd have been freed at the start of March, months ago, if only israel had not torn up the agreement they made.
If only Israel allowed foreign journalists into Gaza, we Woukd not have to depend on independent Gazan journalists, who risk their lives daily, many of whom Have been killed. They can only be afraid of what independent journalists would see? And report?
Maremia
Try the video on YouTube just now. It shows some distribution.
OK I have found a dribble of information.
So 500 trucks minimum a day are needed. There is thousands of tonnes of aid sat on trucks waiting to be able to enter Gaza and distributed, so it is not because of shortage.
No food, medical aid, food, water was allowed in for about 75 days, and that on top of a far from generous amount of food being able to enter prior to that.
Israeli Times has reported a little under 500 have been allowed to enter Gaza during the past week.
CBS has reported that only 100 trucks have so far been allowed to enter.
Sky is reporting that 200 trucks have entered Gaza, but only 90 of these have been distributed.
Clearly the picture is muddled, but I suspect the truth is somewhere between the highest and lowest figure.
But whatever is the true figure it is only a drop in the ocean compared with what is needed and is waiting at the border.
Quote Maremia Mon 26-May-25 09:32:54
Free the hostages, yes, but also stop bombing children?
The war started because of the attack on Israel, killing both
adults and children and taking hostages. Is war possible without
adults and children being killed ,or does Israel have bombs which only kill children ?
Free the hostages, yes, but also stop bombing children?
Try the video on YouTube just now. It shows some distribution.
Quote keepingquiet Mon 26-May-25 09:27:01
Trump was supposed to end both these disgusting wars but he's just made them worse.
The situation in Gaza is intractable and seems to have a momentum that will just get worse and worse...
I have no solution and so it seems, does no one else.
Freeing the hostages ?
Oreo
silverlining48
What I can’t believe is the almost total lack of compassion shown on this thread to others who are living in what must be hell.
All war situations are sadly hellish for the civilian population.
I do have compassion for them, just as I feel for the Ukrainians.
My point is that you can’t believe all you see from Gaza as hamas control the narrative there.They love the sympathy and see it as a way to get what they want.
If Netanyahu were to allow foreign journalists into Gaza then we would get a fuller picture wouldn't we?
I think that I have to conclude that at the moment there is nothing getting into Gaza, as I can’t find information to the contrary anywhere.
Trump was supposed to end both these disgusting wars but he's just made them worse.
The situation in Gaza is intractable and seems to have a momentum that will just get worse and worse...
I have no solution and so it seems, does no one else.
Must compassion be spoken of publicly to show one is caring ?
Has anyone read whether there is substantial aid getting in? Or is it just a dribble or nothing. I haven’t read anything today.
silverlining48
What I can’t believe is the almost total lack of compassion shown on this thread to others who are living in what must be hell.
All war situations are sadly hellish for the civilian population.
I do have compassion for them, just as I feel for the Ukrainians.
My point is that you can’t believe all you see from Gaza as hamas control the narrative there.They love the sympathy and see it as a way to get what they want.
How much of a 'full picture' do you have to see to know what is happening. And whose 'full picture' should you believe?
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