“Israel MUST open the borders and allow the United Nations to deliver supplies in sufficient quantities.”
“The United States, which has helped fund the Israeli military for years, cannot sit back and allow hundreds of thousands of innocent children to starve to death,” Sanders (Vt.) said in a statement. “As a result of Israeli bombing and restrictions on humanitarian aid, the people of Gaza are facing an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.”
Israeli forces have killed more than 30,200 Palestinians in Gaza—most of them women and children—while wounding over 71,300 others and displacing around 90% of the besieged enclave’s 2.3 million people. Children are now starving to death, and experts say adults, especially elders and other vulnerable people, will soon follow absent urgent intervention.
I wouldn’t differentiate between combatants and non-combatants either. The assumption that every military aged male in Palestine is a combatant is probably close to correct, as military-aged men are going to be the most likely to take up arms to defend their home
Fuck Israel, btw, if that didn’t get across in the last paragraph. Jerusalem needs a well-placed suitcase nuke; hit the people in charge, not the people in general
Edit: The combatant/non-combatant distinction isn’t particularly useful when discussing an area that has been militarily invaded; of course the people who live there will try to fight back against their invaders, whether they’re trained military or not. If America decided to invade my country, you can be damned sure I’d kill any of their soldiers I met in the smoke pit outside the bar, and they’d call it murder