Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and other Related Conflicts in the Middle East (read the rules in the first post)

tankphobia

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There has been a rather minimal updates on the conflict huh?
Gaza operation is basically taking a back seat in MSM when compared against the potentially widening conflict in the Middle East. What the US and Iranian proxies get up to will determine whether another big war starts. It does seem that the US is trying their hardest in doing just enough to not start anything, seeing as it's an election year.
 

_killuminati_

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Another drone bulldozer set a
, I can’t help but wonder if the shot placement was intentional to not cause instant death.
Severely injured / permanently disabled personnel is a lifelong liability for it's employer, and a reminder of grief to everyone around him.

If not dead, most surely he will be paralyzed below the spine.
 

Serb

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I read that Israel pretty much realized that they are losing too much in invasion so far, and will try to blockade and starve Gaza instead now, forcing people to overthrow Hamas and surrender on their own while they go and fight Hezbollah for some reason. But for this to happen, they also need to take over the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza. Does anyone know what are the chances of Egypt's military response against Israel if they try that and how would they fare against them today? Egypt seems like it won't allow for Israel to do this so far in rhetoric.
 

_killuminati_

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I read that Israel pretty much realized that they are losing too much in invasion so far, and will try to blockade and starve Gaza instead now, forcing people to overthrow Hamas and surrender on their own while they go and fight Hezbollah for some reason. But for this to happen, they also need to take over the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza. Does anyone know what are the chances of Egypt's military response against Israel if they try that and how would they fare against them today? Egypt seems like it won't allow for Israel to do this so far in rhetoric.
Rafah border is already closed (by Egypt!) with the exception of a limited amount of foreign aid for Gaza and a small amount of Gazans able to escape via bribery.

One of the key reasons for Egypt's refusal to allow Gazans to escape is that they think that Palestinian Gaza will cease to exist with everybody escaping [which is essentially Israel's plan]. That is why Israel also refused to temporarily house the Gazans in [Israeli] Negev Desert.

Egypt appears to be betting on the idea that Gaza won't suffer 2.3 million casualties. But given how barbaric Israel is, with majority of the aid cut off, civilian infrastructure mostly destroyed in Gaza, that 2.3 million may not be off the charts in the long run.

Gaza isn't "functioning" right now - it is in survival mode with scarce resources quickly depleting. Soon, they will begin to die enmasse of starvation and poor health. Kinda similar to how European colonialists in America killed all the bisons - the primary food source of First Nations (Aboriginals).
 

_killuminati_

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Many Western UNRWA donors cut aid funding due to,

Terror link accusation

The development follows allegations that some UNRWA staff colluded with Hamas during its terror attacks on southern Israel on 7 October that left some 1,200 dead and more than 250 taken hostage.
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"Allegation" ...

As of 31 January 2024 , 15 states had announced the suspension of funding to UNRWA. These are: Austria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, USA, Iceland, UK, Japan, Canada and Australia.
“It is deeply shocking – indeed inhumane – that several governments have taken decisions that will cause further suffering to two million Palestinians, who are already facing the risk of genocide and an engineered famine just days after the International Court of Justice ruling concluded that the survival of Palestinians in Gaza is at risk. It is particularly appalling that such action has been taken over allegations concerning 12 employees out of UNRWA’s entire staff of 30,000,”
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Gazans now grinding bird feed for food
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Amnesty.org called it a manufactured famine!
 

_killuminati_

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  • Jan 3: 80 percent of all people in the world experiencing famine or catastrophic hunger were in the Gaza Strip
  • Jan 5: "People are facing the highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded."
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    Experts warned that the famine in the Gaza Strip was the worst instance of man-made starvation in nearly 100 years.
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  • Jan 16: (UN) 378,000 people in Gaza were in IPC Phase 5, or catastrophic levels of hunger.
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    ; It reported all 2.2 million people in the Gaza Strip were facing acute food insecurity – the highest proportion of a population experiencing starvation in recorded history.
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  • Jan 24: UN reported there were only fifteen bakeries still in operation across the entirety of the Gaza Strip.
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  • Jan 30: Palestinians were eating grass to stay alive.
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  • Feb 2: The World Food Programme stated on 2 February that aid to northern Gaza was being overwhelmingly rejected by the Israelis.
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  • Feb 5: Israel bombed a truck loaded with food head toward northern Gaza
  • Feb 6: Israeli forces reportedly open fired on people waiting for food aid trucks in
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This was never about Hamas!
 
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