• GrymEdm@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    As much as the “hurt with one hand, help with the other” approach bothers me, I really hope this enables sufficient aid to safely reach the civilians who so desperately need it.

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      6 months ago

      Sorry to burst your bubble but it’s technically incapable of enabling sufficient aid.

      • the US plan is to start with 70 trucks worth of aid and ramp it up to 100 trucks

      • even before the war Gaza needed about 400 trucks of aid, that was when people still had homes and hospitals

      • there are IDF outposts on each side of the pier meaning it could become a choke point just like the crossings

      • the IDF have reinvaded the North where the worst of the famine is

      • the closing of the Rafah crossing means famine conditions are rapidly worsening in the South as well now.

      • once people are actually starving, you need aid workers to distribute aid.