The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in the legally binding order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in South Africa’s genocide case, Human Rights Watch said today. Citing warnings about “catastrophic conditions” in Gaza, the court ordered Israel on January 26, 2024, to “take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian aid,” and to report back on its compliance to the specific measures “within one month.”
One month later, however, Israel continues to obstruct the provision of basic services and the entry and distribution within Gaza of fuel and lifesaving aid, acts of collective punishment that amount to war crimes and include the use of starvation of civilians as a weapon of war. Fewer trucks have entered Gaza and fewer aid missions have been permitted to reach northern Gaza in the several weeks since the ruling than in the weeks preceding it, according to United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
“The Israeli government is starving Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians, putting them in even more peril than before the World Court’s binding order,” said Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine director at Human Rights Watch. “The Israeli government has simply ignored the court’s ruling, and in some ways even intensified its repression, including further blocking lifesaving aid.”
Human Rights Watch found in December 2023 that Israeli authorities are using starvation as a weapon of war. Pursuant a policy set out by Israeli officials and carried out by Israeli forces, the Israeli authorities are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agricultural areas, and depriving the civilian population of objects indispensable to its survival.
Last time Trump was in office, he killed a million people in America alone with covid.
If you want to do this gross tragedy Olympics shit you should at least consider that there are around 600k people in Gaza and over 300 million in America.
To make this argument honestly, you should either normalize the numbers against population (spoiler Biden is about 10x worse this way) or compare all the deaths worldwide that could be traced to either one. I suggest you actually do neither of those.
Gaza Strip has a population of 2mil. Gaza (the city) had a population of ~800k before the bombings.
My bad. That’s what I get for trusting what google plastered at the top of the results page. With that number figured in, Biden is just 3x worse.
You would have to be literally removed to believe who the president was affected that to any great degree.
Source?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-misinformation-and-the-partisan-divide-drove-a-surge-in-u-s-covid-deaths
I dispute the broad generalization that Trump killed 1 million people, not his contribution to the pandemic. From what I’m reading, @ 330,000 deaths could have been prevented.
Oh that’s alright then.
If I understand you correctly: Trump isn’t directly responsible for COVID deaths, but Biden is directly responsible for Palestinian deaths.
Man, the mental gymnastics must leave you in knots by the end of the day.
You don’t understand me correctly. Trump is responsible for COVID deaths, and Biden is responsible for Palestinian deaths.
Sorry: Trump is responsible for some COVID deaths. Biden is responsible for all Palestinian deaths. My mistake.
No problem. I’m not a moral absolutist. I don’t think Biden is responsible for all Palestinian deaths, but he is enabling the deaths to continue.
I agree, but you are listing the number of deaths in Palestine as if Biden is directly responsible for all of them. Then responding to COVID deaths with “some of those people would have died anyway.”
Come on man. Don’t defend Trump, we all lived through that shit.
Then stop making me. Posting misinformation about the number of deaths he caused is just as bad as the Q-anon conservatives. Trump could have prevented 330,000 or so deaths. So don’t exaggerate. It tarnishes credibility.