Dwarf Fortress almost made me fail a few courses in undergrad.

That is a game that redefines the concept of fun.

Bluntly - step outside lemmy and you’ll see plenty.

There’s little point for even trying to discuss it here - that died with the stickied post about the ICJ ruling and a mod who joined in rather than preventing hate speech.

I doubt the intelligence they transferred is only about the 12, given the size and immediacy of the reaction. Those are the ones they were able to most easily prove using Hamas’ own footage of October 7th.

My guess is they passed a list with a lot more than 12 to each of those countries, and said “watch how many they fire”.

Bottom line is that it isn’t in Israel’s best interests to stop all aid - they want to avoid a true humanitarian crisis (as opposed to the current threat of one) to achieve the war goals: return the hostages and destroy Hamas. UNRWA is best positioned to provide aid, but the proof on the ground is that they aren’t distributing that aid effectively at all and people are suffering as a result.

It is extremely coincidental the director of UNRWA announced they terminated the employment of 9 employees during the ICJ hearing.

Almost like he was trying to bury the news.

Sounds like Hamas gave their answer:

At least 10 rockets fired from Gaza toward central Israel, no injuries reported

Cynical take: maybe don’t employ terrorists

Real take: UNRWA staffers will be busy scrubbing their socials for the next week instead of actually handing out aid. Of course, they aren’t exactly distributing the aid anyways so I guess it will make fuckall difference. They’ll complain about it and blame all their troubles on it anyways. Bottom line is that aid won’t get to the people who need it until Hamas stops preventing it from reaching those in need.

Except immediate access to the means isn’t actually part of it. They attempted to ethnically cleanse the area around Gaza, and publicly stated that one of their goals with the rocket fire was to empty the city of Ashkelon. They don’t get a pass because they failed to fully succeed.

Fourth.

The UN shouldn’t be employing genocidal terrorists.

I wonder how long it will take for Israel to file a countersuit against Palestine for their failure to prevent genocidal statements.

There’s plenty of room to have the ICJ force the UN to designate Hamas, PFLP, PIJ, Hezbollah, and others as genocidal terrorist organizations that cannot receive any UN funding or have their members employed by the UN. UNRWA would have to fire half their employees, but that’s not a bad thing.

Don’t underestimate people who have a vested interest in one side of a story and are willing to sacrifice anything to push that agenda.

That and the danger that a group will take their status and abuse it to push a particular agenda despite evidence to the contrary. At that point they’re not fact checking - they’re actively pushing disinformation.

There’s a long cut, and the camera zooms in on them before the shots. It’s pretty easy to spot that there’s context that is missing.

It’s probably 50-50 if that context would change anything in reality, but the fact it’s missing could mean anything from the cameraman just getting more background footage to the group putting away their firearms after taking potshots at soldiers. Most likely, it’s somewhere in between all that and they were warned verbally to turn around.

I’ll definitely need a source for that

Literally google maps and wikipedia. Most of them are 100-200 people only. I exclude the areas past the 232 road because fewer than 5% of all Hamas allied deployments reached there.

I probably missed a few, and that’s all since October 6th.

I also intentionally only included the ones they can’t possibly say “this is a individual soldier or group of soldiers acting on their own initiative”.

On October 7th, Hamas and PIJ militants attacked 20+ civilian communities and killed over 10% of the civilian population of the entire region with the explicit purpose of ethnically cleansing the area, along with thousands of rockets targeting civilian population centers across Israel.

The civilian casualties in Gaza are a very sad fact of combat in a densely populated urban area, and are not being intentionally targeted by Israel alongside explicit declarations and very public military orders that “civilians are not to be targeted”. So far, around 1% of the civilian population of Gaza has been killed.

So yeah, very different. They are the awful realities of war. Some of them are likely avoidable, but a large number of them are not, especially given Hamas’ tactics and doctrine of embedding within civilian populations.

Here’s the short list of Hamas’ war crimes that are part of their regular military doctrine:

• Indirect fire that intentionally targets civilians
• Indirect fire that intentionally targets protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
• Conducting indirect fire from within protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
• Taking civilian hostages
• Intentionally targeting civilian population due to their nationality and/or religion
• The systemic use of child soldiers
• Coordination and housing of military efforts from within protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
• Manufacturing weapons within protected infrastructure - medical , educational, and scientific
• The use of medical transport to convey military forces during a military operation for operational purposes and not medical ones
• Incitement to genocide
• Incentivizing war crimes by paying larger pensions to their members (and their families) who commit atrocities

These are the things they have done so much that it is clearly part of their military doctrine and policies, and not even remotely defensible as “one off” behavior of irregular forces.

The actual press transcript in case you really don’t trust JNS:

https://press.un.org/en/2024/db240117.doc.hhtm

And the UNRWA statements in the past regarding tunnels under its facilities:

• 2022 statement by UNRWA complaining about tunnels under its facilities
• 2021 statement by UNRWA complaining about tunnels under its facilities
• 2017 statement by UNRWA complaining about tunnels under its facilities

From the article:

She told Cooper that while her family had become separated in the chaos of the attacks, the four of them had been reunited in captivity when militants hid them alongside dozens of other hostages being held at Nasser hospital in southern Gaza.

In an account that potentially backs up US and Israeli assessments that hospitals were used to shelter hostages, Aloni Cunio said there were three rooms at Nasser hospital each holding between 10 and 12 captives and that they were tended to by a male nurse every other day. “He knew who we are, he went along with it,” she said.

Hamas has been operating from within Nasser hospital very recently, so if they’ve managed to close off the tunnels they might even be able to rescue some hostages.

Official press release

Notably, the EU has sanctioned Hamas already:

9. ‘Hamas’, including ‘Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem’.

Now if only the UN would follow suit and also recognize Hamas’ terrorist status. That would force UNRWA to clean house and maybe some of the food going into Gaza might actually reach the people who need it.

Normally I’d agree with you that Daily Mail is not to be trusted, but the meetings absolutely happened:

Hamas officials join Nelson Mandela’s family at ceremony marking 10th anniversary of his death - AP

The novel information being presented in this article is exactly who was part of that delegation (and potential inclusion of PFLP representatives in that delegation)

I’m a little confused - you mean to say Palestinians in the West Bank should attack more?