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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Two points, cutting off supplies to an enemy country is not a war crime, never has been, we cut off everything from Germany in 1939, Gaza is a country, fully independent, they also have a border with Egypt, Hamas has had 20 years to go to its Muslim backers and ask for help in building desalination plants, create an infrastructure for the country that they fully control, there are no Israeli settlements in Gaza, if it needs Israel to survive as we need the US then it has to accept Israel's existence, it has to accept its borders and work with Israel, to be frank Hamas and the backers of Gaza sound like my teenage foster kid smashing the TV in a fit of pique and then complaining their parents wont buy them a new TV, they have a country they control, they should have built things instead of engaging in an endless unwinnable war with Israel with the stated and absurd aim of wiping Israel of the face of the earth
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None of that changes the reality. If a military encircles a region and prevents noncombatants from accessing food and water while also preventing them from leaving the area for a long enough period of time that they start dying en masse, it is a war crime.
What has happened to this point means essentially nothing. Obviously the Palestinians should have accepted Israel's right to existence and worked towards peace on that basis as much as possible. But that doesn't excuse war crimes if Israel ends up starving the population. Yes (as I mentioned), there is still the border with Egypt. But in the past Israel has enforced blockades there as well, so it's not a given that it's up to Egypt to allow food and water to get into Gaza.
In all likelihood it'll never get to that. I don't suspect the US will allow a long-term full blockade of Gaza if it's going to result in people starving, and Israel can't do anything major without the blessing of the US.
Also I have no idea why you're talking about WWII. The conventions and international laws were enacted after WWII because of the conduct during the World Wars. You might as well be saying using mustard gas is OK because they did in WWI.