Feeding Gaza Civilians During Fighting

 Nadene Goldfoot               

                   One of many tunnels found under Gaza 

Gaza tunnels stretch at least 350 miles, far longer than past estimate – report

Senior Israeli defense officials tell NY Times there are some 5,700 separate shafts leading to Hamas’s underground network under the Strip, which is only 140 square miles.

                            

GAZA:  The area had remained under Egyptian rule since 1949.  Israel had captured it in 1955 and by November 1956, captured in the Sinai Operation.  They then returned it in March 1957 when Egypt was along the border with Israel.

On June 5th, 1967, Israel launched an early-morning preemptive attack against the Egyptian air force who were ready to attack them.

Facing over 465,000 mobilized troops, over 2,800 tanks, and 800 aircraft, Israel’s only potential advantage was the element of surprise.  By the end of the day, they had completely neutralized the Egyptian and Jordanian air forces, and destroyed half of the Syrian planes. Six days later the war was over.  Winning the war included winning back the Gaza Strip.

When the Israeli government made its decision to disengage from Gaza in 2005, Gaza was home to over 1,324,991 people. Roughly 99.4 percent of the population was Palestinian and 0.06 percent was Jewish. Forty-nine percent of the population there was age 14 and under, so in 2005, about half of Gaza's population of over  million people were of age 14 or younger.   The birth rate was 40.62 births/1,000 population with a fertility rate of 6.04 children born/woman. Demographically, Gaza was a challenging place for any authority to administer.

Since 2005, we can figure 25 years per generation and this means that there has been 19 years since 2005 or most of another generation. A fourth of the people must have been females.  6.04 children were born to each of 1/4 million women or about 250,000 according to my figures. 

 The population density of Gaza now rivals that of America’s largest cities, with more than 2 million people living on a roughly 140-square-mile strip of land according to Palestinian statistics.  Relatively few people in the Palestinian territories are in their senior years, as estimates indicate people at least 65 years old make up less than 3% of Gaza’s population and about 4% of the West Bank’s population. Large shares of the population in both Gaza and the West Bank are Palestinian refugees.

An Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel by the terrorist group Hamas, which killed more than 1,000 Israelis  and sparked a counteroffensive by the Israeli military in Gaza that has killed thousands more.

                             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCJrTx29ENQ

Obama wanted to bring Democracy to Gaza.  "A New Beginning" is the name of a speech delivered by United States President Barack Obama on 4 June 2009, from the Major Reception Hall at Cairo University in Egypt.  The result was that Hamas was voted in by the people as their government.  Gaza is not a state.  Hamas were terrorists.  

Did Germany send food to England during their world war I or II?  No.  Did the USA send food to Germany during world wars I and II?  No. Did anyone feed the Japanese population of civilians? 

It's never been done till now, nor has Israel fought a terrorist group only and not its country until now with scattered terrorists such as Hezbollah and the Houthis  working for Iran, a large country wanting more power and control of religion.  Hamas has no country and is trying to make Israel into their country.   Iran differs from others being Shi-ite and not Sunni like the other countries.  They have Israel surrounded.  

Hamas terrorists have been taking food off the carriers before any noncombatants have had a chance to receive any. They keep it to feed their inner circle of terrorists.  

The right of noncombatant immunity forbids inflicting harm on non- combatants as either an end in itself or as a means to an end. In other words, noncombatants have the right not to be deliberate targets of attack.  This is a principal, not a law.   The principle of non‐combatant immunity cannot be held absolute. But to minimize the suffering caused by war there are strong reasons for holding it as near absolute a principle as we can. The application of the principle is examined against two case studies: the 2008–9 conflict in Gaza and NATO air operations in Kosovo in 1999.

Palestinians celebrate a Jerusalem terror attack that killed seven Israelis near a synagogue, in Gaza City, January 27, 2023. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

These civilian noncombatants are the people who cheered when Jews were killed while on a bus, and passed out candy to their people when Jews are killed, however.  They are complicit in the goals of their government of Hamas.  They are comprised of the children brain -washed 19 years ago and those who were the ones who brain- washed them.  

President Biden—who has been supporting the Israeli government militarily and diplomatically—wants Israel to allow additional aid into the territory. More than thirty-four thousand Gazans have already been killed in Israel’s military campaign, he said,, and the enclave remains at serious risk of famine.   (Several weeks ago, Save the Children, a humanitarian group, reported that twenty-seven Gazan children have died from starvation and health conditions related to malnourishment.) The situation is especially dire in the northern part of Gaza, where around three hundred thousand people still live. The majority of the population is now in the south.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-tunnels-stretch-at-least-350-miles-far-longer-than-past-estimate-report/

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/gaza-disengagement/

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2023-11-14/population-religion-and-poverty-the-demographics-of-israel-and-gaza

https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-celebrate-jerusalem-synagogue-massacre-with-fireworks-sweets/

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-much-aid-is-actually-reaching-gazans