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UK surgeon Nick Maynard, a volunteer at Nasser Hospital, tells Good Morning Britain that he and other doctors tried to bring baby formula into Gaza and the Isra
by slowturtle 1y ago
UK surgeon Nick Maynard, a volunteer at Nasser Hospital, tells Good Morning Britain that he and other doctors tried to bring baby formula into Gaza and the Israelis confiscated it from them with no justification. [0]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ipJEROtHOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ipJEROtHOs
- mielioort 1y ago[flagged]
- FridayoLeary 1y ago[flagged]
- bjoli 1y agoThe reason for that is apparently that you can use baby formula to make rocket candy. Because apparently extracting the lactose from 40kg baby formula is all it takes to make a quassam rocket. If you can get your hand om 20kg of oxidiser that is. It is all more than ridiculous. Edit: and Nick Maynard is a national treasure.
- cma 1y agoThough different from the rocket fuel, I've read Israel has dumped so much ordinance on Gaza that the Hamas weapons primarily use material from unexploded ordinance as their warheads.
- mothballed 1y agoSame for water. I've heard they could electrolyze drinking water into hydrogen and oxygen. Then they could explode the hydrogen using the oxygen as an oxidizer. Only solution is to cut off all wells and water supplies.
- FridayoLeary 1y ago[flagged]
- xmonkee 1y ago[flagged]
- mothballed 1y agoThat depends, did you want enough water to flush your shit into some kind of septic system so all the people around you don't get some awful disease, and maybe enough left over to grow something to eat since your territory is effectively blockaded and situated in an area that requires irrigation?
- yibg 1y agoOr maybe for doctors to you know, wash before surgery, or to clean wounds.
- bobbylarrybobby 1y agoYeah, support from Israel...
- VerminOctopus1 1y ago[flagged]
- johnisgood 1y agoHamas did not start it though, according to history. The problem did not start at October 7.
- foxglacier 1y ago[flagged]
- ToucanLoucan 1y ago
- amelius 1y agohttps://www.dhmo.org/ https://www.dhmo.org/
- tboyd47 1y agoWould it be acceptable even with a justification?
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- munk-a 1y agoIf a justification was given we'd be able to evaluate the worthiness of that decision - if there were technical notes about, for instance, food safety concerns, we could evaluate the justification against other standards in different areas of the world around proper formula storage. Without a justification the decision is arbitrary and silences any ability to push back against it within the normal bounds of dialog. A justification would potentially allow aid groups to remedy whatever the specific deficiency is if it is a reasonable deficiency to remedy. If there was a justification it might be acceptable - depending on the justification - without a justification it is unacceptable when there is such a clear need. The aid is blocked and there is no recourse to unblock it outside the current attempts to just smuggle it in.
- falconroar 1y agoStarving infants is justifiable sometimes? When?
- munk-a 1y agoIt is justifiable to stop a shipment of baby formula if that baby formula is known to be unsafe and carry bacteria that will kill infants. I think in this particular case it's quite safe to say that those blocking the shipments aren't acting in good faith, however.
- falconroar 1y agoDoes the food carry bacteria in reality? Why are we talking about bizarre hypotheticals?
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- basisword 1y agoI think we all know what their 'justification' was unfortunately.