The Israel Defense Forces says it supplied 300 liters of fuel for “urgent medical purposes” at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, but Hamas prevented the medical center from receiving it.

Early this morning, troops placed the jerrycans near the hospital, as had been coordinated in advance with officials at Shifa.

  • mlg@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Waiting for confirmation this actually happened because the article about the premature babies dying due to lack of power asked the doctors if Israel was willing to help to which they responded that “no, Israel isn’t responding to our requests at all, so we don’t know”.

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    2 years ago

    And no one is even commenting on the elephant in the room. 300 liters of diesel!

    Am I the only one who thinks this is a ridiculously low amount?

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    2 years ago

    A small hospital generator would burn that on about 3 hours. This is a dog and pony show.

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      2 years ago

      Testing the waters before sending more is a good tactic

      What if they send more and Hamas intercepted it as they did with this one?

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    2 years ago

    There’s a video floating around of Hamas turning away the fuel. Pretty sad situation

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      2 years ago

      Sure, but it’s such a small amount of fuel for a hospital that it makes no sense to even do it.

      Should Hamas give them all the fuel they could use? Sure! But I’m wondering how vulnerable they’ll be if they also have no fuel to fight back against the indiscriminate killings from the IDF…

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    2 years ago

    What in the fuck would 70 gallons of fuel do for a hospital? A few hours of power? Is that supposed to be a genuine attempt at aid? Less than $200 of fuel?