Israel resumes water supply to southern Gaza after U.S. pressure

Any updates? I'd expect a few hours for everything to be up and running again, but if there's still nothing, then it's definitely just for show.

Can you please link the Al Jazeera source?

Maybe it takes time for water to circulate? Also i have no idea how water systems work but i feel it might work without electricity, at least parts of it, just by using gravity.

Western pushback, publicly or privately is bound to happen as the body count grows. Hamas really did a lot of damage to the Palestinian cause with the attack last weekend, but I still don't think it's enough to completely turn a blind eye to piles of civilian bodies emerging in Gaza. I think people's feeling for fairness will get triggered sooner or later.

We absolutely are standing by while they commit war crimes. We have been for decades.

If you stand with Israel then you stand with war crimes. Israel is not going to stop until it completes its ethnic cleansing mission. Don't act surprised when whatever is left of Palestine is wiped off the map sooner or later.

Don't take this (too) badly, but given what those in power have done there, "Standing with Israel" is morally the same as "Standing with Hamas", except perhaps that you're standing in a pool of blood which is maybe 100x deeper if you stand with the former than the latter.

The only side to take here that's a "moral highground" (and hence not in a pool of blood) is that of the innocent civilians who are being murdered by both sides.

during this war

It was Israel partially with America's miitary aid that made this into a war.

Israel always listens, it can't afford not to. Just don't confuse public statements with private pressure.

The US-Israel security partnership (intelligence) and Israeli lobby carry a lot of influence in D.C., so often times those two (public vs. private) don't actually align because it takes a lot less political capital to make worthless PR statements, then to apply meaningful behind the scenes pressure.

There is no question that many children were brutally killed by Hamas, and you arguing that it is despicable that some have repeated unconfirmed claim that some children were killed by beheading, which happens by the way in Middle East. The travesty! The children where purposefully gunned down, not beheaded!

Did they really, though? Or did they just say that they are going to do it?

Yeah I'm not sure id be glad yet.. with lights being off still you know there's some messed up shut going on

Shouldn't thank the abusers when an authority forces them to stop abusing.

Under what plausible scenario do you think WWIII happens here, of all places?

There are zero world powers that would go to war for the Palestinians over this. Russia has its hands more than full and has zero to gain in any case. China has no interest in the region except to expand its role as an international power by acting as a peace broker. The US is obviously going to take the side of Israel, as are the major European powers to a greater or lesser extent. And so on.

That leave regional powers. The only regional power that has indicated any interest whatsoever is Iran. Neither Lebanon nor Syria can be considered regional powers at this point, and Egypt and Saudis Arabia will both ultimately side with the US/Israel.

So we are left with Iran. Irans physical separation from Israel and the lack of support from the nations between them means they have two choices. They can attack by air/sea, or they can ramp up their supply and support for terrorist networks.

The former would very possibly result it the destruction of Iran. Iran has no allies that would be willing to go to war with the US in order to protect it. The Iranian navy, such that it is, would be a non-factor, and ground forces wouldn’t be able to leave Iranian territory. It would be an air war with the Iranian Air Force and air defenses up against a more advanced and better supplied Israeli and potentially US air/naval attack. The goal would be something like “degradation of armed forces and command and control” but would include attacks on infrastructure.

If Iran cranks on the terrorist network supplies and intel, it is 100% guaranteed they’re going to get an Israeli (without the US) response, which might include the destruction of Iranian military and political assets.

I don’t see any upside for Iran besides saber-rattling and maybe a perfunctory thing with Hezbollah to keep the hand in the game.

I don't think enough countries are on Hamas' side for that. But it could definitely still be a massive massacre.