Celebrities take to social media to share their thoughts on Palestine & Israel

[xoxobliss]

People around the world have taken to social media and the streets in support of both Palestine and Israel as conflict continues. Since October 7, around 1,300 people have been killed, with 3,400 wounded in the Hamas attack on Israel. Israeli airstrikes have killed around 2,329 Palestinians in Gaza, with 9,714 wounded

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[doverz]

I was just going to start working on a post talking about this! My understanding was that the mods wanted more things from official sources than celebrity responses, since a lot of celebrities have no true idea what they're talking about when they're posting.

What's going on in Gaza is so fucking horrific. The least worst option of everything that is going on and could happen is an ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. The very worst option is genocide. As of an hour ago, 2,670 Palestinians have been killed and that's definitely going to be an undercount. 47 whole families in Gaza have been killed, which amounts to around 500 people. Israel has cut off food, water, electricity, fuel, and medical supplies. They've ordered over 1.1 million Palestinians to move from northern Gaza to southern Gaza even though they are still bombing places in southern Gaza and the infrastructure in southern Gaza cannot support the whole population of Gaza. Israel is apparently going to turn on water to the southern portion of Gaza, but so many Palestinians are saying that won't actually do anything because they don't have electricity and they can only really collect water 1-2 days per week. The internet is also being cut off, so once people's phone batteries die, we are going to have no idea what's happening in Gaza aside from what Israel tells the media.

The responses of the US and other western governments has been so fucking atrocious. They are making all of us complicit in a genocide because our tax dollars are going to provide weapons and military funds to Israel. It's only within the past few days that government leaders are starting to show empathy towards Palestinians by saying "don't punish innocent civilians" but they are still letting Israel do whatever they want.

I am so incredibly angry that the only realistic option I have to prevent Trump from being president again is Biden when he is so complicit in the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians.

[winx]

Israel supplies only 11% of Gaza’s water anccording to the 2017 Gaza Water report l and they’ve turned it back on.
In what other circumstance is a foreign country obligated to provide utilities to a place where they know enemy combatants are actively planning its destruction?

[doverz]

But Israel controls the electricity and other things that make it possible for people in Gaza to get water. So, let's not act like Israel controlling only 11% of the water isn't something significant.

[celja]

The fact that they have any control of utilities in Gaza is fucked up.

[winx]

It is absolutely fucked up, I wholeheartedly agree and if Hamas didn’t make videos of themselves literally digging up EU funded water pipes to use for rockets perhaps we wouldn’t be in this mess

[celja]

That video is from 2021 unless there's a new one. And Israeli forces have reportedly destroyed water pipes in Palestine for a long time.

[wwgrogudo]

Yes, 100%.

[browneyedguuurl]

The IDF has damaged a lot of Gaza’s water supply via cutting their pipes, pouring concrete on them and other barbaric tactics. They alao can’t do much with no electricity.

[doubtmars]

Additionally they need permits from the Israeli government to build new water infrastructure and the building materials allowed into Gaza are severely limited.

[browneyedguuurl]

And of course they never get them so what’s even the point of that comment at the top 🙄

[afrosamurai1089]

You aren't talking about two sovereign states here.

This absolute disdain for the actual history of Palestinian people and their lives is so darn chilling.

[manu19]

Also the infrastructure has always been so bad, they are saying you can’t really drink the tap water anyway.

I guess it’s better than nothing? But …

[aiyaiyai]

"place"

how disturbingly glib. state and military actors disrupting a region's ability to procure basic human needs, like say potable water, as a punitive or retaliatory measure, the burden of which will be shouldered mostly by a civilian population that includes children, elderly, and disabled groups, should never be considered a sensible or "right" course of action, even in times of war and conflict. it's never not fucked up when governments and political actors attempt to legislate and legitimatize human rights violations on the basis of logic and strategy, and members of the general public don't need to cosign that shit. leave the warhawking and destructive military strategizing to the terrible politicians and heads of state.

[benihime99]

In what other circumstance is a foreign country obligated to provide utilities to a place where they know enemy combatants are actively planning its destruction?

By oversomplifying the situation and ignoring some major factors (like colonization for instance) you're not helping your case
If anything, this level of disingenuity will only turn people off

[winx]

You can’t colonise a place you’re indigenous to. You all want to talk about the Palestinian right to sovereignty in the land? Good, that’s an important and valid point to make, but in the same breath you are denying a landbased ethnoreligion their place in the land too by calling them colonisers.

[benihime99]

My ancestors being indigenous to an area does not give me the right to claim that Land for myself and forcefully occupy it, thus displacing thousand of people also indigenous to the area
Mistreating them, erasing their existence and history