Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing, the battle has moved to other key junctions, where rival groups of activists do their best to block or protect aid convoys.
Right-wing activists, including Jewish settlers living in the occupied West Bank, have uploaded dozens of videos of crowds, including some very young children, hurling food onto the ground and stamping on boxes of aid.
In one video, a group of jubilant protesters dance and celebrate on top of a looted lorry.
In another, one of the stranded lorries is ablaze.
In the West Bank, at least two drivers who were not carrying goods bound for Gaza were dragged from their cabs and beaten.
Other videos show Israeli vigilantes stopping lorries in Jerusalem and demanding that drivers show papers proving they are not transporting aid to Gaza. Their faces are uncovered and they appear to be acting with complete impunity.
We’ve had many protests against this government since the war began. And a lot of people in Israel are very angry at the IDF since they are also responsible.
Edit: Btw, where are all the Gazans protesting what Hamas did on the 7th of October?
Maybe because they’re busy trying not to die of hunger and avoiding the genocide coming for them.
Where are all the Palestinians outside Gaza protesting this then?
What do you think is a higher priority for them right now?
This is typical “but do you condemn Hamas?” bullshit. Most Palestinians in this world do not support Hamas. But Hamas are not the ones murdering their fellow countrypeople right now.
Just like for Israelis a much higher priority is pritesting the fact that our government is nottaking the necessary steps to return hostages home.
I didn’t try to say Palestinians should protest against Hamas, I was comparing it to Israelis not protesting against the war.
That is suggesting that the lives of those hostages is more valuable than the lives of the thousands of innocent Palestinians who have been slaughtered and that is extremely morally dubious as a position.
No, they are protesting their government for not doing what a government should do - protect its citizens.
Do not assume those protesters want Gazans to die, many in Israel believe (including me) that the current state of the war is hurting the chances of returning hostages alive. Prominent figures have called for ceasefires even when the deals presented by the Hamas were heavily skewed against Israeli interests.
Unfortunately our politicians are a bunch of genocidal fascists, so these protests and calls don’t matter anyway.
Most protesters against bibi and the lack of results of retrieving hostage but they don’t give a damn about palestine innocent civilians. I’m not saying that there is nobody really protedting about the genocide though.
The main subject of the protests is returning the hostages (which is obvious, protecting the lives of citizens is the main responsibility of a nation), but that doesn’t mean that’s all people protest about there.
@That edit was your attempt at some dark humour?
If Gazans stand in a big group anywhere without permission from the occupiers, they can get bombed and sniped and chased with drones.
The majority are internally displaced and homeless. A significant number are now starving to death. We know from doctors - before the IDF rounded them up and imprisoned them in Sde Teiman (Israel’s version of Abu Ghraib torture detention) - the number of burn injuries, amputations, etc civilians are facing.
And you dare to sit there and compare these to the uninjured, well fed citizens of a richer nation that all have their own homes to sit in and organize their protests about how they want their hostages back?
Palestinians want their hostages back too. The thousands of children whose parents have been killed and vice versa want their loved ones back too.They are HUMAN BEINGS just like you. If Israel had treated them as humans and observed international law instead of turning into a rogue genocidal state the civilians of Palestine may have had the same chance for expression that you do yourself.
Try for some compassion.
Why didn’t they protest Hamas before the war? It’s not like Hamas suddenly became a terrorist organization on the 7th of October.
They did protest Hamas before the war. I can’t tell if you’re lying on purpose or just ignorant about Gaza.
Times of Israel, August 2023:
Here’s Human Rights Watch in 2019 reporting on the violent way Hamas suppressed protestors with beatings and arrests:
Immediately after Hamas was elected in 2006 there were protests and violent reprisals. Surely you should know this.
I was talking about protests against violent acts against Jews (since the first comment in this chain about protests was specifically asking where are the Israelis protesting the genocide).
However, I’ve thought about it some more and it’s unreasonable of me to assume those protesters don’t care about Hamas’ terrorism, just like I think it’s unreasonable to assume Israelis protesting the government don’t care about what’s happening to Gazans.