Israel says it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza. The full effects of that are not immediately clear, but the territory’s desalination plants receive power for producing drinking water.

Sunday’s announcement comes a week after Israel cut off all supplies of goods to the territory to over 2 million people. It has sought to press Hamas to accept an extension of the first phase of their ceasefire. That phase ended last weekend. Israel wants Hamas to release half of the remaining hostages in return for a promise to negotiate a lasting truce.

Hamas has pressed to start negotiations on the ceasefire’s more difficult second phase instead, which would see the release of remaining hostages from Gaza, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and a lasting peace. Hamas is believed to have 24 living hostages and the bodies of 35 others.

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      And my counter to that would be: so? Maybe god’s power isn’t absolute. He can do things, but it takes effort on his part and stops him from doing other things.

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        So he is lazy?

        Either God is dead, not omnipotent or an asshole.

        None of those are things that should give you the feeling that you should pray to him/it

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          Either God is dead, not omnipotent or an asshole.

          Maybe god allows evil to exist because to take it away would be to directly interfere with our free will.

          None of those are things that should give you the feeling that you should pray to him/it

          That’s your opinion.