Egyptian officials said Monday that Israel is not cooperating on allowing the delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza as the enclave is being pushed to the brink due to relentless Israeli airstrikes and a total siege.
According to Al Jazeera, Cairo said the Rafah border crossing that connects Egypt and Gaza has been rendered nearly inoperable due to continuous Israeli airstrikes in the area. The border crossing was closed last week as Israeli bombs fell nearby, giving Palestinians in Gaza nowhere to flee.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry also said that Israel was not allowing citizens of other countries to exit Gaza. “Until now, the Israeli government has not taken a position on opening the Rafah crossing from the Gaza side to allow the entrance of assistance and exit of citizens of third countries,” Shoukry said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed on Sunday that the Rafah border crossing would reopen for aid soon, but the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that no deal had been reached. “There is currently no cease-fire and humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the expulsion of foreigners,” Netanyahu’s office said.
Blinken was back in Israel on Monday and, according to Axios, told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that allowing aid into Gaza was vital to maintaining international support for Israel’s bombardment and expected ground invasion.
Israeli officials have previously said no humanitarian aid can enter Gaza until Hamas releases the captives it brought into the enclave. “Humanitarian aid to Gaza? No electric switch will be turned on, no water tap will be opened and no fuel truck will enter until the Israeli abductees are returned home,” said Israeli Energy Minister Israel Katz.
Since Katz’s comments, Israel has said it turned on water for one community in south Gaza, but Hamas and other authorities inside the enclave have denied any water is flowing. Gazans are resorting to drinking salty and sewage-contaminated water.
As of Monday night in Gaza, at least 2,808 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, including 853 children and 936 women. Over 10,000 people have been wounded in the bombardment.
Come on Israel! Come on! I cannot sing your praises with this kind of sh-t going on!!! You’ve got a couple of choices: Be The Good Guy or Be The Bad Guy!
Peace Out!
Don’t let Egypt’s version of events be your touchstone.
Thats just the crux-there are no really good guys,but plenty of very bad guys.
Settlers rampaging in the Wast Bank with brand new machine guns. The Zionist agenda wants a total war against Palestine to secure more land for the settlers, plus they want parts of other people’s countries to reinstall the empire under King David (the horn-dog of the middle east at that time, and murderer as well, but hey, Hittites were gentiles) https://www.salon.com/2023/10/17/with-all-eyes-on-gaza-israeli-soldiers-and-settlers-dozens-of-west-palestinians_partner/
Donna,your hope is joyous but severely misplaced. I don’t think the Israelies give a shit what the rest of the planet thinks or feels.
Well duh, if they got aid, fewer people would die. What do you think the point of this operation is? It looks like they are at 10k killed at this moment. If they work fast they can kill a lot more before the word gets out.
If, as you suggest, Israel wants to kill civilians, they could’ve killed tens of thousand by now. Stop lying; the death toll in Gaze is 2,500 and I wouldn’t put it past Hamas to kill Gazans if they can blame it on the Israelis. Israel is documenting everthing because the World is watching and there will be court filings all around when this is over. Don’t let your Jew Hate overwhelm your own decency.
Ezra Sachin, “Kill Them All!” Yoav Gallant, “No food, no water, no electricity, no fuel, no medicines, … total blockade.” I’d guess 10k a not unreasonable deduction of the total effect of ol Ezra’s genocide project up to this point, after all phosophorous bombing doesn’t kill instantly.
this is as close to total war as it gets minus Nukes and Tomahawks. Denying food,water,sanitation and medical supplies is just what one would expect from a state like Israel or Germany 80 years ago.
“Suggest” is a rather weak verb here. Let’s speak more bluntly:
Israel wants to kill civilians and is killing civilians. Israel has been killing civilians deliberately from the moment of its founding and the founders were killing civilians deliberately long before that.
Israel was founded by terrorists and has been able to maintain its status as an ethnocracy only because of its ironclad policies of ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism and apartheid.
The count today is over 4k ( of course lying Arabs ) and looking at some of the footage that is totally believable. Plus cut off food, cut off water cut off electricity and then force the aged and infirm to walk you will kill a bunch with no wounds, nice. Throw some dead bodies into the mix and it won’t be long before disease gets a lot of them, again no wounds Attack the hospitals and medical facilities to increase the effectiveness of this tactic. If Israel could have shut off the air to Gaze I bet they would have done it.
They are killing thousands upon thousands.
While unfortunate if true, balancing questions of security and aid can always be tricky, something I’m sure the legitimate government of Israel is considering right now in order to make the best possible decisions for both “Gaza” and its citizens. As the world comes together to condemn Hamas’s unjustifiable terrorism and support Israel, there we cant allow divisions allowed to divide us, as we can only wish the brave souls of the Israeli Defense Forces godspeed in their mission.
That’s just it, the Bibi government is hardly considered legitimate by Israelis, much less the millions of Palestinians who they dominate and ethnically cleanse without taking any responsibility for.
brave souls of the Israeli Defense Forces
You keep saying that and I’ll keep posting this:
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I have regarded the Israeli army to be one of the most undisciplined armies on the planet – little more than a mob with uniforms. I have watched clips of them jumping up and down after shooting Palestinians and/or reporters. A mob in uniform, nothing more.
“undisciplined” 1948, 1967 and 1973 disagree with you.
Why should isolated individual cases of violence and/or extremism be an indictment against the state of Israel while the actual “Palestinian” pseudo-governments can openly call for the genocide of the Jewish people and commit, fund, and support violent acts of terrorism to further this goal. This is a deliberate distortion and should be treated as such.
Another copy and paste. Same sh*t. Get some variety, or you might not get paid.
And you didn’t explicitly acknowledge doing that? But you made a false claim against me on the internet, so I guess my points and evidence are invalid.
Doing what? I didn’t just show up here posting the same sh*t over and over again. My copy and paste is replying to your bullsh*t take on the cowardly IDF. Why don’t you tell us about how brave soldiers would wear a shirt condoning killing a pregnant Palestinian woman.
Because not every soldier of the IDF would necessarily be a moral paragon the same way not every member of society would necessarily be a wonderful human being. However, in cases such as this one, I trust that if the individual commits actions not compatible with the morals and principles of the Israeli Defense Forces he will receive sufficient consequences in due time.
Doesn’t have to be every soldier. And those aren’t the only t-shirts that downplays their brutality. It’ a mindset. When high ranking officials call Palestinians “animals” or “cockroaches” and when previous attacks on Gaza were referred to as “mowing the grass” it’s hard for soldiers not to think in the same sick way. They hate from top to bottom.
When they made those statements they were using the specific derogatory term to specifically refer to “Palestinians” who would support terrorist groups attempting acts of genocide, such as Hamas. Israel and the Israeli Defense Forces have shown an overwhelming concern for preventing civilian casualties, something if you are consistently reading my responses you should clearly see. And no, calling an operation a euphemism in public messaging does not invalidate a legitimate response dedicated to counter-terrorism and anti-genocide. But nice try to turn the turn the world upside down, it wont work.
Bullsh*t! And those shirts with the pregnant woman were only about pregnant women who support terrorists. Right? And I have read your responses, they’re all over the MSM. Just more spoon fed bullsh*t that you believe without any kind of critical thinking. And your response contains more of the same copy and paste from your hasbara playbook.
Notice how I specifically have not defended the actions of that specific soldier, yet you appear to be attempting to use his actions to disqualify both me and the entirety of the IDF. If you truly want to accept this standard of logic it would probably turn out much worse for you, as there are tons of examples of “Palestinians” saying and supporting much worse than that. And no, having read someone’s responses and disagreeing with them does not automatically disqualify them by itself. Otherwise this “conversation” would already be over, as I’ve read your “responses” and would disagree with them. But I guess you ended your “comment” by calling me a “hasbara”, so all my points and evidence are automatically disqualified, right?
We’re talking about the IDF. You can’t be blind to their past history, but you’ll write it off as fighting terrorism or counter genocide. The Israeli hatred of the Palestinians is systematic just like the hatred of the Israelis by the Palestinians is systematic. If you’re going to use the term “brave souls of the IDF” you have to looking at them with blinders on. And hasbara’s use the same catch phrases over and over and limit themselves to one topic. In this case, Israel. I apologize if you’re not hasbara. But that just means I find your comments repugnant based only on their content.
“The Israeli hatred of the Palestinians is systematic just like the hatred of the Israelis by the Palestinians is systematic.”
Quite the contrary — there are Israelis who don’t hate Palestinian Arabs and vice versa. To claim otherwise is just a slur based on national origin. Which, btw, violates our guidelines, so pray knock it off.
I wasn’t slurring anyone. I think they hate each other and I see it from an early age. Someone is passing it along. I don’t know why their origin has anything to do with it, so I really don’t know how I violated the guidelines.
If you’re asserting that Israelis, as such, hate Palestinian Arabs, and that Palestinian Arabs, as such, hate Israelis, then you’re slurring the millions of each group who don’t fit that description, based solely on their national origin and/or ethnic tribal affiliation.
If you’re asserting something else, maybe it was just poor writing.
I wasn’t asserting that so it must have been poor writing. I think a majority of people behind the wire fence/wall hate those on the other side of the wire fence/wall and vice versa. And I believe it’s ingrained from early on.
All the sympathy for the Gazans and none for the hostages, typical.
Sympathy for those currently being murdered with my money, paid for by me, and with political cover from me — enforced on me by fools doing evil.
The hostages?
Americans are being held hostage to the insane foreign policy around the world and are being forced to take sides in wars that doesn’t affect us. If the Zionists and Hammas (a Zionist creation and golem that turned on their creators) let them fight it out, it’s their war, not ours!
Sure Lily, and if you were an American hostage there or one of your family, you’d think the same way, right?
what did you call everything that you don’t believe, yesterday?
oh right propaganda
Hamas admits to having hostages and that apparently is OK by you, I rest my case.
remember when Israel admitted to blowing up the WTCs on 9/11 ?
i guess that was OK by you.
remember when Israel admitted to blowing up the WTCs on 9/11 ?
i guess that was OK by you.
I have sympathy for everyone involved. But, I still ask the question as to why this is any business of the American people? The madness is spreading into the West Bank with guns being passed out and unrestrained rampaging by the Israeli settlers. https://www.salon.com/2023/10/17/with-all-eyes-on-gaza-israeli-soldiers-and-settlers-dozens-of-west-palestinians_partner/
AMERICANS have been murdered here as well as take hostage, HELLO!
Further Israel is the US’s number one ally in the ME because it is the ONLY democratically structured govt amid a bunch of authoritarian regimes catering to zealots like those who also attacked us on 9ll, HELLO!
Americans who travel to war zones take their chances. US isn’t the policeman of the world except in Wash. foreign policy which I and many others denounce as evil. And, if the current gov. in Tel Aviv is so righteous, why are thousands of Israelis protesting every day against it? Zionism is evil and so is America, the indispensable country. Together they will destroy a large part of humanity and the earth unless things turn around quickly.
Never said or believed the US should be the world’s policeman.
however, if Americans abroad get attacked, I do expect the govt to do everything in their power to save them.
Glibly writing them off because they “took their chances” sounds typical of your ilk.
PS: it wasn’t a “war zone” when they went, Karen.
Protest have gone both ways, yours are noisier because your “Zionist” in-chief Geo. $oros pays for them.
America is evil, but you just can’t bring yourself to leave, and America is the number one country in the world people want to come to, yeah that’s pretty “evil”, lol.
The only people threatening world safety are your authoritarian religious zealots who live to murder, fear not, they’re get a lesson right now
Your snotty attitude and insults indicate you’re losing badly, not just here, all over antiwar. “George Soros is a Hungarian-American Jewish financier who survived the Holocaust. … In 2007, Soros wrote, “I am not a Zionist, nor am I am a practicing Jew.”
LOL, yeah and he’s one of the biggest (Zionist) liars on the planet. PS: my attitude was set by yours.
I never insulted you, show me where I did. You’re just a loser in debates all over this site. I site links with most of my posts, you mostly have your opinions, which is ok, but you know what they say about opinions, don’t you?
Attitude Lily, attitude.
I never been a fan of US involved in the Middle East. That area of the world seems to like to kill each other. Jews kill Arabs, Arabs kill Jews and Arabs kill Arabs. I never understood it.
As someone who I’m assuming is generally pro-Israel, I think you misunderstood my comment. I absolutely did not express “sympathy” for terrorist organizations like Hamas, and absolutely believe Israel has a legitimate right to self-defense in eliminating terrorism groups attempting acts of genocide.
Right, let them drink shit!
ferrocement dot com offers drawings of clay lined rubble latrines used to avert disease spread by sewage.
Anyone for a “No Fly Zone”? Ok, never mind.
Surprise, surprise. I recall a book called The Persian Boy by Mary Renault. The early pages of the book reveal a mortal sin: The Lie. People of the western culture are too comfortable with lying, an abomination that has become too easy for them, an abomination that sits at the core of the US government and increasingly those of its allies.