Food Airdrops Are Falling Short in Gaza
Food Airdrops Are Falling Short in Gaza
Human rights advocates argue that airdrops and maritime routes are an insufficient substitute to aid delivery by land.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/17490070
humanitarian organizations, many of which have been sounding alarms about the hunger crisis in Gaza for months, are not impressed. They argue that air and sea deliveries are not only an insufficient substitute for humanitarian aid delivered by land, but a dehumanizing one that acts as a distraction to the man-made barriers that have prevented more aid from getting into Gaza in the first place. “There is no good reason why aid cannot access Gaza by road today,”
It took over 1,500 flights a day to supply West Berlin during the blockade and that’s with a comparable sized population who weren’t being murdered every day.
A few air drops will never be sufficient.
It's not meant to be sufficient, it is meant to make Biden look like he's doing something other than merely prolonging the slaughter by sending arms to Israel.
Yep! It is an election year, after all.
it is meant to make Biden look like he’s doing something other than merely prolonging the slaughter by sending arms to Israel.
How does sending arms to Israel prolong the war? It should rather speed up its resolution, I would think?
There is no comparison of the load of a C130 and a WWII era plane. Still, it's not enough, though. A lot of empty stomachs
It took over 1,500 flights a day to supply West Berlin during the blockade and that’s with a comparable sized population who weren’t being murdered every day.
Two million people took ~4,500 tons a day. The C-54 carried 10 tons, meaning that it only required 450 flights per day. Comments like yours are based on the older C-37 and / or the Easter Push where the Allies did a maximum effort run just to flex on the Soviets.
In 2024 a C-130 Hercules has a max payload of 21 tons, over double the C-54, meaning that required flights would potentially be reduced to 225.
Then you have to consider that Operation Vittles was also delivering COAL, something that the citizens of Gaza probably don't need.
200 flights a day would do it but that still doesn't excuse Israel for preventing aid via land routes.
Berlin was an airlift operation, not an air drop. They landed the aircraft at several airports, and directly offloaded cargo to trucks.
AFAIK, Gaza has no operational airports, which greatly complicates the logistics of an airlift mission on the scale of Berlin.
If we are considering this sort of mission, we're looking at sealift, not airlift. Our historical precedence will be the Mulberry harbors set up to support the Normandy invasion.
That was USA's ally. They weren't being supplied out of goodwill.
isrsel won't let aid get in by land
At least the US pier headed for Gaza is making progress.
The pier is just more theater like these air drops. In 2 months when the pier is ready for use, thousands will have already died of starvation.
Well yeah when you think it's imaginary it's theatric.
The aid really is rolling in though. The mass starvation has not happened.
It's weird that when Hamas went on and did October 7th they didn't have enough food stored up to feed everyone for as long as Hamas leaders planned to hide underground during the resultant seige.
Plenty of rocket launchers, though.
Fuck the pier.
Imagine someone was setting your house on fire and another guy named Joe was handing him cash and oil to keep setting fire to your house. Joe told him to stop as he handed the guy more oil, but he didn't so Joe promised to install a hose in the front lawn of your house that should be ready in about 3 months to help put out some of the fire.
The US needs to stop supplying and protecting Israel first and foremost. Anything else is PR.
Bro, some people just can't stay on topic.
They always have to resort to some bullshit analogy, lol.
The air drops are mostly political posturing anyways. But its better than nothing.
Falling short
Hah