On my first day, the second official day of the mission, we were overrun; it was pure chaos. At the aid site’s entrance gates, we had people waiting in five lanes separated by metal fencing. One lane was strictly for women and children. The other four were all men, and they were letting people in, five, 10, 20 at a time – whatever we could handle. It was not organized, and people were getting smushed and trampled. Eventually, there were so many people in the lanes that the gates burst.
We fell back, letting people get the aid. They were never aggressive towards us. They were only trying to get aid – aid, by the way, that consisted of flour, rice, lentils, tea bags, and noodles; things that need water. They don’t have any water. And we’re not giving out water.
We soon had to fall back again, to a second perimeter. At that point, some personnel started firing warning shots in the air. I was later told that the Israeli military needed to clear those people out because they were going to come through. They soon showed up with tanks, as some sort of security presence, but we had pushed people out by then.
This idea that the Israeli military isn’t involved is bullshit. They’re very much involved. They have offices in our compounds. We share our radio communications with them. The higher-ups claim the Israeli military is not involved, but it feels like they’re the man behind the curtain. Sure, they’re not on-site with us, but their snipers and tanks are just hundreds of meters away. You can hear them shooting all day.ere.
People sometimes have to travel miles to get to the sites – and that means through Israeli-controlled areas. Any excuse the military can come up with to say someone is a threat, they’ll take. There’s not really any international media in these areas, and the West doesn’t really want to believe the Palestinian media, so you get to this point where the truth itself is murky. All the while, all I’ve heard all day is Israeli tanks, machine guns, snipers, and bombs.
But never any fire from the opposite direction.
cia.world/politics removed this post
What is cia.world/politics? Is that a lemmy instance, a euphemism for reddit, or a euphemism lemmy.world?
EDIT: Nevermind. I found it.
You broke the community rules:
Is there a reason that you believe the rules shouldn’t apply to you?
Lol he specifically added that to his own post. It is not a blog it is a news website.
They previously adhered to the Zionist MBFC guidelines until even MBFC added Zeteo as a credible site. Then he added this arbitrary rule. It is nowhere to be found in their side bar rules.
Lemmy.world is famous for upholding whatever narrative is needed to be spread by the empire and disallowing news sources challenging it.
Yeah. Zeteo is an actually reputable source, unlike most of the other slop that the MBFC cites as being credible. Referring to Zeteo as a substack blog is total horseshit.
What is worst to me is that Jordan previously pretended that only MBFC rated stuff goes. Then when MBFC added both dropsite and Zeteo as reliable he made up a new bullshit reason to ban them.
They previously adhered to the Zionist MBFC guidelines until even MBFC added Zeteo as a credible site. Then he added this arbitrary rule. It is nowhere to be found in their side bar rules.
Its in the VERY TOP STICKIED post called “basic rules”. Now, you can be surprised because its not in the sidebar, but when its pointed out that its in the “basic rules” stickied thread, you can’t rationally complain about your article being rejected.
Lol he specifically added that to his own post.
He’s the moderator of the Community. He’s one that sets the rules. He can add anything he wants as Moderator. You don’t have to like those rules, but neither you nor me gets a vote except by participating or not in the Community. Your post is certainly welcome elsewhere, like here, so whats the problem?
He is mod of all the big ‘news’ communities on .world
He even started shoving it down /news where he got added as mod recently. I do not have to guess who wrote the removal reason on the substack one. Notice what it is called in the reason.
The mod has already extensively lost debates about why substack is not a blog with the entire community but still decides to enforce this as his rule everywhere he moderates so he can ban dropsite and zeteo.
He is mod of all the big ‘news’ communities on .world
Yes, and? What does that have to do with anything?
Those are some of the largest news Communities on that instance (as possibly even on the Fediverse). The moderation appears to be acceptable to those who use the Communities. If your version of moderation is as as compelling (or even more compelling!) then you should have no problem standing up a Community of your own and moderating it. I certainly don’t want to because moderation is a mostly thankless job. You can’t please everyone, and this thread is a perfect example of that.
