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Eugene

(62,646 posts)
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 05:55 AM Apr 2024

More 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 isn’t 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 Israel’s 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 Israel’s 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

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More aid is supposed to be entering the Gaza Strip. Why isn't it helping? (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2024 OP
a pedestrian crossing destroyed by Hamas militants when they stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7. jimfields33 Apr 2024 #1
Erez was supposed to be opened "immediately". AloeVera Apr 2024 #3
Really? Israeli's have to clean up too? jimfields33 Apr 2024 #4
My God. AloeVera Apr 2024 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author lapucelle Apr 2024 #8
Link AloeVera Apr 2024 #9
Bib is a liar and a deliberate murderer. lark Apr 2024 #2
Hamas said no to ceasefire. We're talking days ago!!! jimfields33 Apr 2024 #5
No, but that doesn't mean that a ceasefire isn't necessary. lark Apr 2024 #6

jimfields33

(18,837 posts)
1. a pedestrian crossing destroyed by Hamas militants when they stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7.
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 06:14 AM
Apr 2024

Well perhaps Hamas can explain this. No wonder food can’t get through.

AloeVera

(1,941 posts)
3. Erez was supposed to be opened "immediately".
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 11:17 AM
Apr 2024

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)
4. Really? Israeli's have to clean up too?
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 11:36 AM
Apr 2024

That’s ridiculous. Why can’t the Palestinians or even more so the government of Gaza.

Response to AloeVera (Reply #3)

lark

(24,149 posts)
2. Bib is a liar and a deliberate murderer.
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 08:31 AM
Apr 2024

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.

lark

(24,149 posts)
6. No, but that doesn't mean that a ceasefire isn't necessary.
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 12:49 PM
Apr 2024

Hamas military and IDF just want to kill one another, there are no good actors there.

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