#open air prison

[unsolicited-opinions]

Either Israel has never had genocidal intent...or Israel is incredibly incompetent at genocide.

If Gaza was an "Open Air Prison" before Hamas started a war on October 7th, 2023, why did it look like this?

Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005.

How was Gaza a prison?

Because Israel sought to control who could enter Israel and for what reasons?

Doesn't every nation on earth protect its borders? (Hint: Yes. Yes, they do.)

There's so much about Israeli policy which can be honestly criticized without making shit up.

Those who make genocide claims or screech that Gaza was an open air prison are either lying or wilfully ignorant because they like being able to feel righteous in their antisemitic hatred.

[tiredgirlvent]

Gazawood at its finest !

Donors money 💰 was well spent

Lol

Sad !

Mr FAFO a Gazan influencer from an open air prison / concentration camp( so the world says ) influencer must be so happy .

People who donated to this idiot must be feeling pretty angry and stupid right now .

[eretzyisrael]

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[thoughtportal]

open air prison

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Douglas Murray: If you start a war, which is what Hamas did on the seventh of October, if you start a war, there are repercussions. There are repercussions to Russia for starting a war against Ukraine; Russia's lost a lot of troops. There are repercussions for Hamas or starting a war against Israel.

As you know, if you've been, Gaza also has a border with Egypt. Why do you not mention Egypt? Egypt has a stronger fence to fence in the people of Gaza than Israel does. It's fenced off, but you'll note, there are more workers - until the 7th - allowed into Israel to work, and indeed to have medical treatments and others that were considered necessary that Hamas doesn't provide. There was plenty more people every day coming in to work in Israel from Gaza - until the 7th - than were going the other way into Egypt.

Somehow, Israel has both "fenced off" and "occupies" the same chunk of land simultaneously. God is both good and inscrutible.

She has literally no idea what she's talking about, and guaranteed she's never been, she's just regurgitating mantras.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

There is also a border with Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. And, lest anyone forget, there is a maze of underground tunnels one recently-freed Israeli hostage calls "Lower Gaza" which presents numerous illegal exit opportunities.

As Ari Zivotofsky observes in the Jerusalem Post, a September 19, 2023, episode of the Palestinian television show Emigration claimed that, "in the past 15 years a quarter of a million young Palestinians left for abroad." In 2022, over 15,000 of them who lived abroad (having apparently escaped the "prison") willingly returned to it to celebrate the feast of Eid al-Adha.

This is not how prisons work.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has been running a series on "Gaza Before October 7" refuting the "concentration camp" and "open-air prison" claims with pictures and videos. The first two episodes follow Palestinian "influencer" Yousef Alhelou as he travels around Gaza, showing off the top spots for tourists, including a gold market. Subsequent episodes include an Al-Jazeera feature of the economic boom in Gaza, Turkish television reports on the markets of Gaza, and various Arab media outlets covering the many sporting events in Gaza.

Hamas propagandists argue that Gazans are denied goods and services they are entitled to because of Israel's "land, water, and sea blockade," but Israel only blocks weapons from entering Gaza. Even after October 7, Israel has continued to supply electricity, food, and medicine.

What the "pro-Palestine" luminaries will never admit is that Israel has been forced into controlling Gaza's ports by the long history of weapons shipped there. In 2001, two vessels, the Calypso and the Santorini, were seized with weapons destined for Palestinian terrorists, and in 2002, a Palestinian ship called the Karine A was seized with 50 tons of Iranian weapons destined for Gaza. Since then, Israel has acted to prevent further shipments of weapons from reaching Gaza by sea. In 2007, after Hamas took over Gaza completely, Israel imposed an inspections regime and began more aggressively searching ships for smuggled weapons. Food and medicine are not prevented from entering Gaza.

Poor access to healthcare is another complaint about life in the Gaza "open-air prison." In April 2023, the Jerusalem-based anti-Israel activist group B'Tselem faulted Israel for preventing Palestinians from leaving Gaza in order to be treated in Israeli hospitals. But Israel treats plenty of Palestinians. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh sends his entire family to Israel for medical care. In 2013 his 1-year-old granddaughter was treated in an Israeli hospital; in 2014 his daughter was treated at Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital and his mother-in-law was treated at Jerusalem's Augusta Victoria Hospital; in 2021 his niece was treated at Ichilov Hospital. Just this month, it was reported that Haniyeh's grandniece was being treated at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva. But why should any Gazans be treated in Israeli hospitals? There are 36 hospitals in Gaza, many of which are run by foreign nations (Indonesia, Turkey, Jordan, European countries) serving a population of around 2 million.

Of course, hospitals in Gaza are dual-purpose buildings, offering both healthcare and camouflage for the entrances to Hamas's elaborate subterranean infrastructure. An IDF spokesman said that "Hamas systematically built the Indonesian Hospital to disguise its underground terror infrastructure." The Al-Shifa hospital, where IDF soldiers found a stash of rifles, ammunition, and ballistic vests, also sits atop a major tunnel junction. IDF soldiers recently found unopened boxes of medicine for Israeli hostages at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

If Gaza is a prison, Hamas is the jailer.

[unsolicited-opinions]

I thought it was an "open-air prison" until Gaza started a war on 10/7/23...?

Make up your mind and get back to us, mkay?

[eretzyisrael]

Obviously, neither was it an "open-air prison."

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[agreenroad]

Millions To Starve As Israel Lays Siege To Gaza: Blockade Cuts Off All Water, Power, & Food to 2 Million Innocent Civilians

[bloghrexach]

🇵🇸 … found this today!! — HARD TRUTH! … 🇵🇸

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[girlactionfigure]

Trip Advisor Gaza

[unsolicited-opinions]

This was shot in Gaza, two years ago.

Does this look like an "open air prison"?

Does this look like a "concentration camp"?

No? This looks like an advertisement for Gaza tourism?

What does that tell you about the people who have described Gaza under blockade with those terms?

I am not claiming life in Gaza was perfect, nor am I claiming thay Israeli blockades don't deserve criticism. I'm sure that life under Hamas has had a lot of shitty challenges. But those who have described Gaza this way seem to be lying.

[plethoraworldatlas]

Migrant rights defenders on Thursday cheered a federal court ruling ordering U.S. Customs and Border Protection to stop holding undocumented minors in squalid open-air detention sites in Southern California and to transfer all children held in such locations to "safe and sanitary" spaces.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) contended that people held in the open-air detention sites (OADS) are not yet in U.S. custody. However, Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles issued a 12-page ruling that found migrant children are entitled to protection under the Flores Settlement Agreement, which established national minimum standards for the treatment of detained minors.

Gee found that CBP violated the 1997 agreement by detaining children in unsafe and unsanitary conditions, failing to properly feed them, and taking too long to process them at seven sites near San Diego and Jacumba Hot Springs. Migrants detained in these OADS have waited as long as five days before being transfered to indoor lockups.

"The court's decision to recognize CBP's custody of children in open-air detention sites is a crucial step towards ensuring accountability and protection for vulnerable migrants," said Lilian Serrano, director of Southern Border Communities Coalition, a case plaintiff.

"There are minimum standards that must be followed if CBP will be detaining families, children, and other people," Serrano added. "We are pleased to see the federal court acknowledge this fundamental truth. Now we expect the agency to comply with the court's order immediately."

As the number of migrants entering the United States without authorization has surged during President Joe Biden's tenure, U.S. border authorities have forced migrants—including people legally seeking asylum—into OADS, where they face what case plaintiff National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) called "profoundly inhumane conditions."

NCYL said migrant children are "forced to take shelter from harsh rain and wind in porta-potties, burn toxic brush and garbage to stay warm, and survive on nothing more than a granola bar and a bottle of water each day."

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"But it remains a tragedy that a court had to direct the government to do what basic human decency and the law clearly require," Desai added. "We expect CBP to comply with the court's order swiftly, and we remain committed to holding CBP accountable for meeting the most rudimentary needs of children in their legal custody, including food, shelter, and basic medical care."

[eretzyisrael]

[themilfking]

There is no way I'll ever sympathize with violent settlers. Oh you're being killed for violently stealing land that isn't yours?? Good. Die faster