Quote (Goomshill @ Feb 29 2024 03:39pm)

So if I'm getting the initial reports right

the IDF weren't actually surrounding the trucks being swarmed, the truck drivers were 3rd party (egyptian?) and the IDF security detail kept a distance away from them, escorting but not immediately on top of them
the giant swarm of people went after the trucks, and some swarmed the soldiers. Soldiers first fired warning shots, then shot at the mob coming at them, and the truck drivers also drove over the mob to get out of there, and the mob itself stampeded and crushed each other. And there's no clear timeline of which of these actions occurred in what order, given the total chaos

Quote (Goomshill @ 29 Feb 2024 08:22)

So an absolute shitfuck in Rafah today

https://i.imgur.com/jRWyzUv.jpeg

Aid convoys arrived from Egypt, and were swarmed by thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of Palestinians on the most zoomed out views. They were formerly guarded by Palestinian / Hamas but they stopped guarding convoys and now the security details are IDF, and the IDF opened fire on the crowd swarming them after first trying warning shots. Impossible to get realistic numbers, and the Hamas claims of "760 shot" are bogus when the footage pretty clearly shows all kinds of people being trampled and run over by the trucks. Could be about 100+ dead, hundreds injured, mostly from the stampede/pancaking.

The obvious takeaway is that aid convoys into Gaza are no longer going to be feasible. You can't send food trucks if it just gets hundreds of people killed upon arrival and no truck crew will be willing to drive in.
Israel and the US are going to have to immediately start up airdrops of supplies like its the berlin airlift all over again, because what else can be done on a humanitarian level?

Even if they sent in enough supplies to feed 10 million people for a year, the first few trucks in are going to get swarmed, looted and massacred.

Quote (ownyaah @ Feb 29 2024 06:10pm)

Rafah, when?

Quote (Goomshill @ Feb 29 2024 10:22am)

So an absolute shitfuck in Rafah today

https://i.imgur.com/jRWyzUv.jpeg

Aid convoys arrived from Egypt, and were swarmed by thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of Palestinians on the most zoomed out views. They were formerly guarded by Palestinian / Hamas but they stopped guarding convoys and now the security details are IDF, and the IDF opened fire on the crowd swarming them after first trying warning shots. Impossible to get realistic numbers, and the Hamas claims of "760 shot" are bogus when the footage pretty clearly shows all kinds of people being trampled and run over by the trucks. Could be about 100+ dead, hundreds injured, mostly from the stampede/pancaking.

The obvious takeaway is that aid convoys into Gaza are no longer going to be feasible. You can't send food trucks if it just gets hundreds of people killed upon arrival and no truck crew will be willing to drive in.
Israel and the US are going to have to immediately start up airdrops of supplies like its the berlin airlift all over again, because what else can be done on a humanitarian level?

Even if they sent in enough supplies to feed 10 million people for a year, the first few trucks in are going to get swarmed, looted and massacred.

Quote (ofthevoid @ 2 Mar 2024 22:48)

What an absolute shit show

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Mar 3 2024 07:31pm)

I gotta say... the Palestinians made an artform out of biting the hand that feeds them.

Quote (Meanwhile @ 4 Mar 2024 17:24)

“France must be on the right side of history”
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