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  • I doubt the intelligence they transferred is only about the 12, given the size and immediacy of the reaction. Those are the ones they were able to most easily prove using Hamas’ own footage of October 7th.

    My guess is they passed a list with a lot more than 12 to each of those countries, and said “watch how many they fire”.

    Bottom line is that it isn’t in Israel’s best interests to stop all aid - they want to avoid a true humanitarian crisis (as opposed to the current threat of one) to achieve the war goals: return the hostages and destroy Hamas. UNRWA is best positioned to provide aid, but the proof on the ground is that they aren’t distributing that aid effectively at all and people are suffering as a result.















  • Here’s the short list of Hamas’ war crimes that are part of their regular military doctrine:

    • Indirect fire that intentionally targets civilians
    • Indirect fire that intentionally targets protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
    • Conducting indirect fire from within protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
    • Taking civilian hostages
    • Intentionally targeting civilian population due to their nationality and/or religion
    • The systemic use of child soldiers
    • Coordination and housing of military efforts from within protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
    • Manufacturing weapons within protected infrastructure - medical , educational, and scientific
    • The use of medical transport to convey military forces during a military operation for operational purposes and not medical ones
    • Incitement to genocide
    • Incentivizing war crimes by paying larger pensions to their members (and their families) who commit atrocities

    These are the things they have done so much that it is clearly part of their military doctrine and policies, and not even remotely defensible as “one off” behavior of irregular forces.