Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water
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amas calls it part of Israel’s “starvation policy.” Sunday’s announcement came a week after Israel suspended supplies of goods to the territory of more than 2 million people.

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.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    666·
    3 days ago

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

    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.worldEnglish
      514·
      3 days 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
      • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
        214·
        2 days ago

        Maybe god’s power isn’t absolute. He can do things, but it takes effort on his part and stops him from doing other things.

          • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
            19·
            2 days ago

            And my counter to that would be: so? Maybe god’s power isn’t absolute. He can do things, but it takes effort on his part and stops him from doing other things.

            • Johanno@feddit.orgEnglish
              5·
              2 days ago

              So he is lazy?

              Either God is dead, not omnipotent or an asshole.

              None of those are things that should give you the feeling that you should pray to him/it

              • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
                16·
                2 days ago

                Either God is dead, not omnipotent or an asshole.

                Maybe god allows evil to exist because to take it away would be to directly interfere with our free will.

                None of those are things that should give you the feeling that you should pray to him/it

                That’s your opinion.

    • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      84·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • Tja@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        No no, that’s the one with sending bears to maul children for… calling a bald guy “bald”.

        • dontbelasagne@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days 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.