Honestly airdrops are like one truck worth of supplies, inefficient, and not super effective. Pressure needs to be put on Israel to allow food and aid trucks back into Gaza. This isn't going to stave off starvation, it's making Canada look good. Still with the climate as it is, I can't knock anyone doing anything trying to help. Keep fighting everyone.
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it's making Canada look good
And you shouldn't accept such bullshit. They need to militarily intervene in the genocide they financially supported, this is PR.
I learned how ineffective airdrops are from trying to sustain an encircled division in Hoi.
They are risky too
There will come a day in a number of years from now, when we look back at the Gaza Genocide and for some reason everyone will have been against it and everyone will have sided with the Palestinians all along, and everyone will have hated Israel's government the entire time.
A fat lot of good that will do the tens or hundreds of thousands of innocent people murdered while we posted memes and argued with each other if it's antisemitic to bomb schools.
Assuming it's all rice, Canada dropped enough food to feed around 30,000 people for a day just enough for them not to die (1Kg of rice has 3580kcal which at minimum required food levels can feed about 3 people and Canada dropped 21.600 pounds, which is a bit less than 10.000Kg)
Gaza used to have about 2 million people, probably 1.5 million now after Israel murdered hundreds of thousands, so assuming the entirety of that drop was used and none spoiled, Canada just fed all of 2% of Gazans for a single day.
Meanwhile Canada keeps on sending weapons to Israel.
This is nothing less than a cynical PR action, and an insulting one at that.
If the side effects of this in reducing the pressure of Canadian public opinion on the Canadian Government delay the actual execution by the latter of effective measures such as sanctions on Israel by a 1 week it will vastly exceed the positive effect of giving 30,000 Gazans an extra day to live, meaning this isn't actually a good thing at all, not even in the smallest of ways.
Good. More. At this point we as a group of nations should be airlifting aid trucks in and out of Gaza since the Israelis aren't letting sufficient aid in.
please don't start dropping trucks, you're just going to kill more people:
Palestinian nurse killed by falling humanitarian aid
The actual solution is cut off all military support to the genocidal colonists until they stop starving people to death
I'm thinking more of a situation like the West Berlin Airlift than just dropping trucks from the sky. Of course this in this case it would be a cooperation of France, Spain, UK, Ireland, Canada, Belgium and others to the chagrin of Israel and USA.
Those countries complicit with israel will never do that
won't ≠ shouldn't
they want them to eat a bit before Israel murder them. Just start sanctioning Israel and stop selling and buying arms
Ha ha ha. I also like shitting on good news by showing how it could have been better. Good one!
I am tired of performative actions while sending arms to israel to kill gazans and continue genocide
Displaced Palestinian says air drops of aid in Gaza are an 'insult'
Gaza airdrops will not reverse deepening starvation, says UNRWA chief
Doctors Without a Boder - Airdrops in Gaza are ineffective and dangerous
Airdropping is very inefficient and it's not much food. Also wonder how much has ended up in the ocean this time?
Thank you for posting this message. I fully agree with you.
WHERE ARE THE FUCKING SANCTIONS YOU FUCKING TWO-FACED POSERS!?
PS: Not the Canadians, their Government.
As a Canadian, I am happy to see this.
I just hope they were able to get it there quickly enough that they didn't have to refrigerate the cheese curds
Was it promptly followed by an Israeli bombing?
Please also do the same in East Hastings Street