Interviewer:

Many people are asking: Since you have built 500 kilometers of tunnels, why haven’t you built bomb shelters, where civilians can hide during bombardment?

Mousa Abu Marzouk:

We have built the tunnels because we have no other way of protecting ourselves from being targeted and killed. These tunnels are meant to protect us from the airplanes. We are fighting from inside the tunnels. Everybody knows that 75% of the people in the Gaza Strip are refugees, and it is the responsibility of the United Nations to protect them. According to the Geneva Convention, it is the responsibility of the occupation to provide them with all the services as long as they are under occupation.

      • goat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        it’s mainly because the us government has a hands-off approach to reporting… unless it’s the CIA or other intelligence firms.

        • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          Except for the fact that every time there’s a Republican president (and sometimes even when there’s a Democrat one), the media have to self-censor true and important stories or risk losing access.

          And of course there’s the fact that all of the biggest media outlets are pretty much on one or two political teams, which also restricts the editorial largesse.

          And that’s not even counting all the CORPORATE interests making the press less free.

          I maintain that"mostly free" is ridiculously generous compared to reality.

          • goat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            21·
            11 months ago

            You are correct, but despite all of that, it still remains freer than most of the world. What a sick joke.

            • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtfEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              You really shouldn’t be grading something as fundamental as press freedom on a curve, though. Nobody ever became freer by pointing out that others are less free. Least of all the land of the incarcerated!

              • goat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                11·
                11 months ago

                You really shouldn’t be grading something as fundamental as press freedom on a curve, though. Nobody ever became freer by pointing out that others are less free.

                I’m not. It’s a fact that the US is freer than most of the world.

                • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtfEnglish
                  1·
                  11 months ago

                  I was talking about them, but now that you mention it, that assertion is partly true at most.

                  Apart from being the most incarceration-happy country in the world, it’s also one of the worst surveillance states and the police are mostly there to protect the property of the rich at the expense of such freedoms as bodily autonomy and the rights to peacefully protest injustice for everyone else.