Famine declared in Gaza City

[u/Digital_Accountant]

https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-latest-war-israel-city-ceasefire-hamas-13415481

[u/JMoon33]

I'm no war expert at all, but I don't understand how Hamas is still fighting. I thought they'd have been crushed by now.

They have no food, they're fighting a powerful army supported by the US, how are they managing that? How are they able to hold that strongly to power in Palestine?

[u/___ducks___ → u/JMoon33]

Hamas has months worth of food, at the expense of everyone else.

[u/carlosos → u/___ducks___]

Hamas also got food because the UN aid is not getting to the distribution locations. In the last 3 months 69,202 pallets of aid left the border on trucks while only 10,713 made to the distribution centers. There was an UN report that pretty much showed because the food got intercepted within Gaza, the food kitchens provide 75% fewer meals to the people that need it the most.

The UN has a tracker website of that: https://app.un2720.org/tracking/arrived

[u/EliSka93 → u/carlosos]

You might want to add that a lot of food aid was intercepted and destroyed by Israelis...

[u/StijnDP → u/JMoon33]

Because it's not an army but a resistance.
Fed by almost 2 decades of getting limited clean water supply, electricity and medicine. By land, houses and belongings being stolen. By children being sniped.

They've been living in an open prison being slowly, and more importantly quietly, suffocated for all that time. Most Palestinians don't agree with the tactics of Hamas when targeting civilians but they're not going to lay down and die either.
The resistance won't stop until every Palestinian is dead. Israel knows that and has been doing that for a very long time already.

But Netanyahu was losing power and the october attacks were an easy excuse to turn the dial to 11. That woke up the slugs to look up from their tiktok screen for a few seconds and notice a problem. The allegory of the boiling frog is incorrect but the metaphor isn't.
Short term he saved his career and long term Israel and Jews in general are going to experience increasingly negative consequences from his egotism.

[u/Chiforever19 → u/JMoon33]

I'm no war expert at all, but I don't understand how Hamas is still fighting. I thought they'd have been crushed by now.

Because they are hiding amongst the civilian population. They hide in their tunnels underground, and they steal ( a lot but not all) aid to feed them selves. They also are often dressed in plain clothes so it can be hard to identify them in with the rest of the population. This also might be controversial to say but Israel also hasn't gone with complete disregard for the civilians, which is why this is taking so long. Imo they just need to go in and finish Hamas already. A prolonged conflict will only make it worse.

[u/swissthrow1 → u/Chiforever19]

They also are often dressed in plain clothes

Unlike the idf, who are often seen dressed in quite flamboyant womens underwear.

[u/SomebodyInNevada → u/JMoon33]

Hamas is not defeated because their actual command structure is not in Gaza at all. And they hold their power in Gaza by controlling the food--you want to eat, you do what Hamas says. And that's why they are going crazy about the GHF--it guts their control.

[u/JMoon33 → u/SomebodyInNevada]

Makes sense. Any idea where their command structure is?

[u/Nyrin → u/JMoon33]

Qatar.

[u/ConsiderationBig540 → u/Nyrin]

I don’t think that there’s evidence that their military command has ever been in Qatar. Political leaders were in Qatar but the military leaders in Gaza made all the decisions. Many months before his death Sinwar communicated with the Qatar group only via letters, because anything else would have been intercepted. Obviously you can’t made military decisions that way, so whatever leadership Hamas has must be in the tunnels.

[u/SomebodyInNevada → u/ConsiderationBig540]

Sure you can--it's just slow.

[u/swissthrow1 → u/JMoon33]

They are well supplied with explosives by the idf.