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Related: About this forumMore aid is supposed to be entering the Gaza Strip. Why isn't it helping?
Source: Associated Press
More aid is supposed to be entering the Gaza Strip. Why isnt it helping?
BY JULIA FRANKEL
Updated 3:28 PM EDT, April 11, 2024
JERUSALEM (AP) Under heavy U.S. pressure, Israel has promised to ramp up aid to Gaza dramatically, saying last week it would open another cargo crossing and surge more trucks than ever before into the besieged enclave.
But days later, there are few signs of those promises materializing and international officials say starvation is widespread in hard-hit northern Gaza.
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WHAT HAS ISRAEL PROMISED?
After Biden said last week that future American support for the war in Gaza depends on Israel doing more to protect civilians and aid workers, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a series of steps. Biden spoke out after an Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers delivering food to the strip.
Netanyahu pledged to immediately re-open Israels Erez crossing into northern Gaza a pedestrian crossing destroyed by Hamas militants when they stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7. Netanyahu also said he would allow Israels port in Ashdod to process aid shipments and increase Jordanian aid packages through another land crossing.
But Israeli officials this week dropped the plan to open Erez. ...
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/israel-gaza-war-hamas-aid-trucks-unrwa-30173642b5c298c829f1457db357071e
jimfields33
(18,837 posts)Well perhaps Hamas can explain this. No wonder food cant get through.
AloeVera
(1,941 posts)The damage to the crossing that makes it inoperable for aid is on the Gaza side - from bombing. A bomb crater very close to the crossing and rubble from a bombed and collapsed building.
All that could have been easily fixed. We know the IDF has bulldozers.
The question is why promise something if you know you can't or won't deliver, then come up with an alternative that may take weeks (?) to complete.
jimfields33
(18,837 posts)Thats ridiculous. Why cant the Palestinians or even more so the government of Gaza.
AloeVera
(1,941 posts)Bye now.
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lark
(24,149 posts)Wish Biden would wise up and stop the flow of $$ to Israel until it starts letting sufficient aid through and stops killing aid workers on purpose and actually holds to a ceasefire to stabilize the area. No, Bibi desperately wants Rafah action which is totally packed with civilians and families because Israel pushed them there. The civilian casualties are not mistakes, they are the purpose.
jimfields33
(18,837 posts)Did you miss that?
lark
(24,149 posts)Hamas military and IDF just want to kill one another, there are no good actors there.