In Gaza, 'They're Prepared to Die for a Bagful of Rice'

[cliffside]

Source: NYT

"On the morning of June 1, Dr. Victoria Rose was nearing the end of her 21-day stint as a volunteer in Gaza when she saw news of a mass shooting of Palestinians near a food distribution point.

... For 21 months, Gazan civilians have suffered as Israel has unleashed one of the most intense bombardments in modern warfare in its campaign against Hamas. And since June 1, more than 700 Palestinians have been reported killed, and about 5,000 injured, in almost daily shootings near food distribution sites run under a new aid system backed by Israel and the United States, according to the Gaza health ministry.

... Israel has barred foreign journalists from entering Gaza since the war began, except on controlled military embeds. As a result, medical workers for charities like Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross and Ideals, which Dr. Rose volunteered for, are among the few international observers who can give firsthand accounts of the aftermath of these shootings and about the condition of Gaza’s few remaining hospitals.

All the patients Dr. Rose treated on June 1 said they had been shot by people guarding the food distribution point. Several people, she said, told her they were shot by “crowd control” while running away, although it is not clear what that phrase referred to. Their accounts were consistent with bullet wounds she treated to the back of people’s legs, she said, as well as to the torso and abdomen..."




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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/world/middleeast/gaza-hospitals-uk-surgeon-israel-attacks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VU8.39ke.cGyWvq3qtm3h&smid=url-share

[cliffside]

1. Foreseeable flaws in Gaza aid project led to shooting of Palestinians

Full article at link

https://wapo.st/4lO1UBj


"JERUSALEM — The repeated fatal shootings of Palestinians seeking food at distribution centers in Gaza since late May are an outcome of the aid project’s flawed design, which drew enormous crowds and brought them in proximity to Israeli troops, who opened fire on multiple occasions, according to experts in humanitarian aid programs, witness testimony and visual evidence.

Shortly before the centers opened, the United Nations warned in a briefing paper that the model — developed by a group of former U.S. intelligence and defense officials and business executives working in close consultation with Israel — could lead to violence sparked by overcrowding. “Israeli forces or private military security companies may use force to control crowds,” the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.

... Since the American-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) opened the first of four distribution centers in late May in areas controlled by the Israeli military, Palestinians have been shot in the vicinity of the sites nearly every day, killing more than 400 people and wounding thousands, according to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The Post found that this violence was in part the result of ignoring long-established norms for aid distribution in Gaza and the predictable consequence of dynamics baked into a program that repeatedly culminated, witnesses said, in Israeli forces firing toward crowds..."

[Skittles]

2. so the flaw is being too close to Israeli troops

"The Holy Land"

[cayugafalls]

3. The cradle of civilization is holy. Man is not.

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There is no holy land…fucking myth created to co-opt an anarchic movement against government oppression lead by a charismatic leader who the Romans killed then used to enslave the world.

[iemanja]

4. Only this isn't being done by Christians

[cayugafalls]

5. My apologies for the apparent broad brush. I will edit for clarity.

I understand that not all who identify as Christian are filled with the wrong mindset and beliefs.

However, historically Christianity has been a brutal religion used to control and oppress.

I believe in the Jesus doctrine not that of the organized religions.

My apologies if I offended you or anyone.

[iemanja]

6. You didn't offend me

But Israel is not a Christian nation.

[AloeVera]

7. The flaws are a feature, not a bug. N/T.