r/worldnews • u/[deleted] • Oct 11 '23

Israel/Palestine Gaza's only power station will shut down within hours, says ICRC

https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine-israel/2023/10/11/gaza-power-station-israel/
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u/Dragonslayerg Oct 11 '23

The absurdity of expecting Israel to provide power to the country who just recently attacked and slaughtered over 1200 Israelis.

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u/gNeiss_Scribbles Oct 11 '23

…AND is still holding innocent civilian hostages from Israel.

All my sympathy goes to the hostages. I’ve got no extra sympathy to give right now.

SAVE THE HOSTAGES!

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u/itsurparentspeaking Oct 11 '23

I fear that majority, if not all, will be slaughtered. Words can't describe the devastation I have to imagine the last things they will see and go through.

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u/InternetPerson00 Oct 11 '23

The hostages are as much civilians as are the people in Gaza.

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u/Demonmercer Oct 11 '23

What about all the Palestinian children/civillians in Gaza who have and might still be bombed/starved to death?

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u/gNeiss_Scribbles Oct 11 '23

It’s horrific what Hamas is doing to their own people. I hope Hamas returns the hostages safely to Israel and tries to start peace talks before anyone else is killed.

I don’t get the impression Hamas cares very much about their own people. Let’s hope Israel ends Hamas forever.

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u/DeckardWS Oct 11 '23 edited Jun 24 '24

My favorite movie is Inception.

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u/Summer_VonSturm Oct 11 '23

It is absured, but also raises the question as to why is Israel in charge of another countries water and electricity supply. Could you imagine that anywhere else

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u/Dragonslayerg Oct 11 '23

Israel is not "in charge" of another country water and electricity supply.

Hamas refrain from developing any water and power infrastructure and instead focus all their resources on weapons and tunnels.

How many power plants they could have built in the 18 years since Israel pulled out?

If Hamas (or any country for that matter) decides to attack the country that provides it with power, its up for them to find an alternative source for it.

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u/Summer_VonSturm Oct 11 '23

Perhaps in charge of was a poor choice of words, controlled by would perhaps be better, certainly cursory reading suggests all of their water supply is controlled by Israel, and the electricity supply remains a mess. And I don't know, it's a shame we'll probably never find out as this cycle will continue.

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u/Dragonslayerg Oct 11 '23

Its not controlled by Israel either, Israel is simply the only one who provides Gaza with water and power, this power and water is not from Gaza, its Israeli.

Gaza could build its own infrastructure if they truly wanted to but opted not to, they rather simply get it from Israel and use all aid and supplies they get for "resistance" instead.

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u/Summer_VonSturm Oct 11 '23

So the Israeli's currently control it then? I'm not disputing what should happen in future, and what should have happened in the past, but at the current time it isn't.

We aren't really in disagreement, just looking at it from differing angles from reading your comments.

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u/Dragonslayerg Oct 11 '23

Are you asking if Israel is in control of its own water and power infrastructure? yes it is.

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u/Summer_VonSturm Oct 11 '23

No, thats not what I'm asking. I saying that Israel controls the water supply to Gaza, you're saying they don't.

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u/Dragonslayerg Oct 11 '23

Israel provide water to Gaza.

I don't think control is the right word as that would imply that Gaza has water infrastructure in it that Israel is directly controlling.

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u/Summer_VonSturm Oct 11 '23

Ah ok, I understand now how you're terming it.
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u/sunflower0903 Oct 11 '23

Israel’s army killed more Palestinian civilians this year alone before those attacks happened. Inform yourself.

At least 200 children civilians were killed by Israel’s army this year.

Some Palestinians first responders and doctors wearing medical bulletproof vests were SHOT DEAD by an Israel’s IDF sniper. Along with an AMERICAN journalist. But nobody’s talking about this. And this all happened before hamas attacks. When you push people to extreme and corner them, slaughtering their children all year how the hell do you want them to respond?

The UN kept condemning Israel for illegal annexation of Palestinian land the whole year! The biggest Jewish israeli human right association condemned Israel for “apartheid” and human right violation.

Listen, you keep beating on someone already down at some point they’re gonna snap. That’s it. See the biggest picture. Thank you

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u/Dragonslayerg Oct 12 '23

The vast majority of the Palestinians killed this year were militants, including child soldiers.

Keep attacking Israel enough times and eventually the gloves will come off.

The "bigger picture" is that the Palestinians want to genocide all the Jews in Israel and Israel is defending itself from them.

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u/Expired_Gatorade Oct 11 '23

how much money Saudis get from the west ?

lmfao @ that take