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0 pointsImPostingOnHN8mo ago0 comments

Occupying powers have a legal responsibility to provide aid to civilians in territories they occupy. They also have a legal responsibility to figure out the logistics. They also cannot commit war crimes. So the solution is for israel to do what they are legally required to do, and stop doing what they are legally proscribed from doing.

Everything else (hostage return, feelings of safety, etc) is:

1. Less important, and

2. Equally applicable to both israel and palestine

Finding a good solution means diving in and understanding the conflict beyond israel's perspective: There is simply no legal or moral justification for the atrocities we see here. None whatsoever.

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beepbopboopp8mo ago

This is a gross oversimplification. Hamas has used aid drops as attack points and military refueling opportunities. The idea that this conflict has a good guy bad guy and is simple has done more disservice to an outcome than almost anything else.

ImPostingOnHNOP8mo ago

> This is a gross oversimplification.

That is a valid opinion, and I also have an equally valid opinion, that it is a gross undersimplification. Our two valid opinions cancel each other out! :)

> Hamas has used aid drops as attack points and military refueling opportunities.

This may be true, or it may be false (israel forbids journalists from reporting from Gaza and often attacks them) but it is included in the "everything else" referred to in the above post. Nothing Hamas does detracts from israel's obligations I mentioned. That's why it's not a "gross oversimplification".

Besides, israel has been systematically using aid points as attack points.

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