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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Ok, take the whole supply thing with a grain of salt, and of course this is speculation on my part.
But I expect that Hamas has stocked a great deal of food and water and essentials that they have taken from humanitarian efforts, and are not going to share this with Palestinians, They probably have a pretty big stock pile of ammunition, rockets etc.
They wouldn't have launched this attack without knowing that there would be a very large seige. To Hamas the ordinary Palestinian isn't important, its better if they starve or die, but its important that their members are fed and watered and able to fight and draw blood.
So yes, its likely that the ordinary citizen in Gaza is going to suffer. Hamas doesn't care. They're happy to see starving citizens or no access to medicines and essentials because they can use this to force yet another cease fire on the international stage.
Because if they didn't stockpile, then this plan makes no sense because of the drop in moral and the drop in the effectiveness of a building to building defense.
Now what might effect this is that Israel is dropping a lot of buildings that contained these stockpiles.
Just a guess.
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I have my doubts that anything was stockpiled. Water consumption in particular was already low in Gaza before any of this happened. I've heard it said that the goal of Hamas was to draw other countries into the conflict. Easiest way to do that is to be very social media present with any suffering or casualties, and create a popular uprising using Islam as a crutch. Hamas doesn't really care about the people.