Israel's military suggested on Tuesday that the United Nations ask Hamas for fuel supplies after the U.N. agency providing aid to Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip warned it would have to halt operations on Wednesday night if no fuel was delivered.

Israel’s military suggested on Tuesday that the United Nations ask Hamas for fuel supplies after the U.N. agency providing aid to Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip warned it would have to halt operations on Wednesday night if no fuel was delivered.

The agency, known as UNRWA, posted its warning on social media on Tuesday. The Israel Defense Forces reposted it and said that Hamas militants have more than 500,000 litres of fuel in tanks inside besieged Gaza.

“Ask Hamas if you can have some,” the IDF wrote.

  • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    721·
    1 year ago

    stalled the creation of the Palestinian state

    It would be weird for Israel to intend there not to be a Palestinian state when they have continually offered the Palestinians creation of the very first Palestinian state.

    Israel funded Hamas as an opponent to Abbas, who was fighting against a Palestinian state. That was really stupid, it turns out, but not for the reasons you’ve suggested.

      • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        311·
        1 year ago

        Lol you know how I know for a fact you didn’t read that op-ed? It’s about being angry at Netanyahu for providing gazans too many work permits, and for not responding with enough force when Hamas launched rockets.

        Seriously, you should read the articles you’re pretending to reference.

        Hamas was also included in discussions about increasing the number of work permits Israel granted to Gazan laborers, which kept money flowing into Gaza, meaning food for families and the ability to purchase basic products.

        Meanwhile, Israel has allowed suitcases holding millions in Qatari cash to enter Gaza through its crossings since 2018, in order to maintain its fragile ceasefire with the Hamas rulers of the Strip.

        • TheDankHold@kbin.social
          83·
          1 year ago

          Here’s an Israeli that called out Israel propping up Hamas and how that would result in the 80s.

          “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza for more than two decades, told the Wall Street Journal in 2009. Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.

          • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
            310·
            1 year ago

            I’m sure I’d disagree with lots of Israelis about lots of things. Namely, I’m not Jewish, so that’s probably a big one.

            • TheDankHold@kbin.social
              93·
              1 year ago

              Doesn’t matter whether you agree or not. Reality exists all the same and you can’t change the fact that in 1984 the leader of what would become Hamas was detained by Israel for caching weapons. What should’ve been a 12 year sentence turned into an almost instant release.

              Right wing Israeli politicians and military leaders did everything they could to prop up Hamas until it could violently overpower the Palestinian secularists and moderates.

                • TheDankHold@kbin.social
                  62·
                  1 year ago

                  I was merely providing information to validate the claim of the previous commenter. If you agree that Israel is largely responsible for the growth of Hamas then fair enough, your phrasing wasn’t very explicit on that front.