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Anyone else think that the Zionist Entity allowing in polio vaccines to Gaza is sus af? (hexbear.net)
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Not a lib

I need to be really careful here not to tread into any anti-vaxx territory here but this is just sus af. Why would they take a break from the mass-murder of children to ensure those same children are vaccinated against polio?

Not to mention that the vaccine is going to be administered by the UN - an organisation who have lost nearly 400 employees during this holocaust. Why would the Zionist entity suddenly change their tune and say "Oh, right this way, come on in!"

Is it a photo op? Are they legit worried that polio will spread to their soldiers?

There must be some ulterior motive, right? This just doesn't make sense. WTF is going on here?

(btw be warned there's lot of brainworms antivaxxers in the Twitter comments there, god damnit they make me so mad)

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[–] Bobson_Dugnutt@hexbear.net 45 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They might be using it as cover to gain intel, like how the CIA organized a fake vaccination drive to get Osama bin Laden's family DNA

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is absolutely the answer. Assuming the UN involvement is legitimate, Israel will use it as a cheap PR ploy while also a mass intelligence gathering opportunity - where family members are, population density, recruitment of informants via blackmail, possibly even a way to lure certain targets for assassination.

[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

Seymour Hersh's story about the killing of Osama Bin Laden said that was actually a rushed lie to cover up the fact that Pakistani intelligence had Bin Laden in a safehouse for months before the raid. According to the story, they actually got the DNA from a doctor that was treating Bin Laden, which honestly makes more sense to me.

The reason they had to rush to invent a lie about how they knew he was there was that they had intended to take him to the desert and say he was hit in a drone strike, and that they recovered his DNA afterward. But then they crashed a helicopter during the raid and had to make up a story that preserved the lie and the deal worked out with Pakistani intelligence.

It's a good read: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n10/seymour-m.-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

I was thinking this or Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

probably just a cheap PR thing, I don't see how they could expect to run some biological warfare op while both announcing it & involving the UN

Are they legit worried that polio will spread to their soldiers

considering how deranged they are they probably do have a serious antivaxx problem, so I wouldn't rule this out

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not to mention, and even bringing this up feels disgusting...this is the r@pe army. They probably have more concerns than most with communicable diseases, because they just can't stop being wretched ghoul fucks and they don't wanna stop.

[–] context@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/19/ticking-time-bomb-poliovirus-found-in-gaza-sewage

al jazeera reported in july that the gaza ministry of health said they had detected poliovirus in sewage

Gaza’s Ministry of Health said it had detected “component poliovirus type 2” in coordination with UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency.

Earlier, the Israeli Ministry of Health said it had evidence of the “component poliovirus type 2”, found in sewage samples taken inside the Gaza Strip.

It instructed the Israeli army to vaccinate all troops in the Gaza Strip as well as those who are about to enter, and recommended a booster for those already vaccinated.

The discovery of poliovirus came after a European activist group released a report saying the Gaza Strip is “drowning” in hundreds of thousands of tonnes of human waste and rubble from the war.

UN health agencies started a global campaign in 1980 to eradicate polio, most often spread through sewage and contaminated water, but there has been a resurgence in recent years in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

so this comes a little over two months later, which is probably about as fast as the u.n. could organize getting some vaccines to gaza.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’m so over this bullshit, people talking about Israel “rushing” vaccines to Palestinians when they’ve taken as long as humanly possible to delay it before spinning it as a propaganda tool

[–] Commiejones@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

The vaccines are probably the real deal. The irrationality of vaccinating people they are starving and bombing is the point. The zionist entity will use the vaccination drive as "proof" that they aren't committing genocide. "isisrael cant be doing genocide because we give out polio vaccines." Its "ukraine can't be a neo-nazi state because we have a Jewish president" all over again.

[–] context@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

here's your answer

Along with the ongoing shelling in various parts of the Strip, these Israeli military attacks have coincided with the peak of families’ movement with their children towards the designated vaccination centres. Some of these attacks have even targeted locations near the vaccination centres, endangering the progress of the vaccination process that is required to stop the poliovirus from spreading among Palestinian children in the besieged enclave.

Following its initial attacks, Israel is still targeting Palestinian clinics and hospitals where Palestinians are supposed to go for children’s vaccinations. The most recent incident took place at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on Saturday 31 August, leaving three Palestinians killed and numerous others injured.

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6456/The-Israeli-army-continues-to-escalate-its-attacks-on-the-Gaza-Strip-during-the-polio-vaccination-campaign

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think it's for PR. Surveillance like in Pakistan? , I'm not sure, given it's UN conducting it.

Israel does care about its image somewhat. Remember when the "war" started, they had fake aid boxes with English labels? While also doing mass murder?

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The vaccines are real. But the purpose of the vaccine drive is intelligence gathering.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can't be too careful when it comes to Zionists. Could spike it with antifreeze or some shit.

[–] Mantikora@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

Call me naive, but luckily, UN aren't Zionists.

What scares me is how will starved kids and people handle the vaccine. I said to my Gazans to take it, but now I'm not so sure if it's a good idea. I asked them if they got food, they said they did. But still...

I don't understand why don't UN Forces go and stay in Gaza. UN in general are stalling this shit as much as Netanyahu and USA. Everything is possible when there's a will. UN Forces should have stepped in long time ago. Once more they proved they're worthless. Just like in Bosnia 25-30 years ago.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't trust any vaccine from a group of people trying to genocide me.

It makes me think of how there's alot of anti-vax sentiment amongst poor African countries. Because the same countries that are providing them have been oppressing them for over a century.

[–] aqwxcvbnji@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Perhaps this is the right time to bring up the fact that Israel gave Ethiopian Jews anticonceptics without their knowledge, to make sure they didn't get to many children, and Israel could remain a very white state.

[–] 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 14 points 3 months ago

Everyone is missing the most mundane explanation (which may or may not be the entire reason) which is vaccinating populations you don’t actually care about is still necessary for herd immunity. (Ie the argument about why the US / rich countries should finance covid vaccines for poor countries. There is still benefit because it prevents it from spreading and mutating external to your own vaccinated population)

Especially when they’re your next door neighbors and your own people will interact with them.

Free Palestine

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

My cynical reaction is so that they know where there will be a high concentration of families to obliterate...

desolate