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Aure Free Press :verified:

MY BLOOD BOILS!

When asked why Hamas hasn't built bomb shelters for civilians, Mousa Abu Marzouk, a top Hamas official, replied that is not of their concern but of the United Nations.

Journalist: Many people are asking: Since you have built 500 kilometers of tunnels, why haven’t you built bomb shelters, where civilians can hide during bombardments?
Mousa Abu Marzouk: We have built the tunnels because we had no other way of protecting ourselves from being targeted and killed.

Nov 05, 2023, 02:15 AM·Public·Mastodon for Android
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Noel Kelly

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Very poorly and very callously put. I think he's trying to get more action from the UN.

Let's remember the context. Israel controls the borders to Gaza. It directly controls the sea border and most of the land border. The small part it doesn't control directly, it indirectly controls with agreements with Egypt, what's allowed to transit those crossings.

Building materials, especially steel and cement imports are limited. There isn't enough for building alone.

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Noel Kelly

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Hamas has diverted steel and cement for building & infrastructure construction. I'm sure they regard their tunnels as infrastructure.

Bomb shelters are a luxury in this context.

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Noel Kelly

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Can you imagine the Israeli reaction if Gaza had started building bomb shelters? "Cut the monthly steel and cement quotas by 50%"

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Peter Brown

@Free_Press Israel has the name and address of every individual in Gaza.

They use drones to target Hamas; so they build tunnels to hide in. That seems perfectly logical to me.
Israel should not be targeting civilians, so they should not need tunnels to hide from drones. And they are an incredibly poor country.
ochaopt.org/content/53-cent-pa

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - occupied Palestinian territoryUnited Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - occupied Palestinian territory | 53 per cent of Palestinians in Gaza live in poverty, despite humanitarian assistanceThe findings of a Household Expenditure and Consumption Survey, released by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) in May, show a significant increase in poverty rates in the Gaza Strip: from 38.8 per cent in 2011 (the previous time poverty was measured) to 53 per cent by the end of 2017, which is the equivalent to around 1.01 million people, including over 400,000 children.6 This means that poverty increased by more than 14 percentage points in a period of six years.
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