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Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza. The full effects of that are not immediately clear, but the territory’s desalination plants receive power for producing drinking water.

Sunday’s announcement comes a week after Israel cut off all supplies of goods to the territory to over 2 million people. It has sought to press Hamas to accept an extension of the first phase of their ceasefire. That phase ended last weekend. Israel wants Hamas to release half of the remaining hostages in return for a promise to negotiate a lasting truce.

Hamas has pressed to start negotiations on the ceasefire’s more difficult second phase instead, which would see the release of remaining hostages from Gaza, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and a lasting peace. Hamas is believed to have 24 living hostages and the bodies of 35 others.

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No matter which side you take in this conflict one thing is clear - the incompetence of Israel and IDF is staggering.

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago

It's not incompetence, it's a racist state where the majority see Palestinians as sub-human.

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@lemm.ee 67 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

More collective punishment from the "good guys"

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 49 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Yet another reminder that if a god does exist, they're the type who likes burning ants with a magnifying glass.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 35 points 11 hours ago

Epicurus said it best:

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.

Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God

  • Epicurus
[–] yesman@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I'll never understand the anti-theist obsession with religion. They survey everything before them, scanning for signs of faith like a hawk searching for mice.

For me, one of the best things about atheism is I can automatically depreciate the significance of all that dumb shit.

[–] Mechaguana@programming.dev 1 points 5 hours ago

Its the "chosen by god to save your souls" fervor probably, which gives the licence to fuck everybody's lives.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world -4 points 10 hours ago

This is an extraordinarily useful reply.

Thank you for that.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

So like the god of the bible then?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No no, that's the one with sending bears to maul children for... calling a bald guy "bald".

[–] dontbelasagne@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

And the one that sends gay people and the people that shop on sundays to hell and sees both as sins as bad as each other but has no problem with slavery.

[–] Tja@programming.dev -4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Dammit Biden, how can you let this happen!?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

What are you trying to accomplish?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world -3 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Thank god all the lefites stayed home on election day or this would have happened.

[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

It’s almost as nothing happened between October 7th 2023 and November 5th 2024…

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Their moral convictions stayed intact thank god. Well worth...checks notes...literal human lives.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What of the tens of thousands of dead and mutilated Palestinians at the hands of American bombs, jets, and funding from October '23 to January '25? If those deaths don't matter to you then why do these deaths matter to you? Or could it be that you don't really care either way and just want to use it as a political football?

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Im not even American. Dont rope me in your weird-ass political posturing.

Obviously it was bad before but now its even worse and its worse for the rest of the world too.

Dont lecture me.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You roped yourself into "political posturing" with your previous comment doing exactly that.

I don't know how genocide becomes "even worse." Care to explain that or is it that "its worse for the rest of the world too" and now that you're personally affected it, it's suddenly an issue.

[–] Tamerhindi@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

If you're replying to a comment with weak ass arguments you have to expect a slap back or just stfu.