The White House has asked the Israeli government to end attacks on police in Gaza. Targeting the civil police force has caused more chaos in the Strip and made aid distribution nearly impossible. US officials believe that the Israeli actions to prevent aid deliveries in Gaza are creating a humanitarian crisis similar to the situation that once existed in Mogadishu.
Axios reported speaking with American and Israeli officials who said Washington has asked Tel Aviv to stop targeting the police force in Gaza. The police force was working with international aid groups to distribute aid in the Strip.
As almost all of the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to find food to eat, aid convoys have been mobbed and prevented from reaching their destination. The police force halted the escorts after Israeli forces began targeting the police.
Tel Aviv has taken several other steps to restrict aid deliveries into Gaza. The Israeli Finance Minister is preventing the distribution of US-funded food shipments into the Strip. The Israeli government has also installed an onerous inspection regime for all aid entering Gaza. The inspections remove life-saving medications from shipments and create bottlenecks that slow delivery.
Additionally, Israeli security forces allow Israeli civilian protesters to block aid deliveries at border crossings, further delaying the shipments. Even if the aid enters the Strip, Israeli forces have attacked the trucks.
Prior to the Israeli assault on Gaza, 500 aid trucks entered the Strip daily to help support the besieged population. Since the onslaught began, Tel Aviv has barred commercial shipments and limited aid to just a fraction of the pre-war levels.
The number of Palestinians relying on aid to survive has skyrocketed in that time. Tens of thousands of civilians have been severely injured in Israeli attacks. Virtually all the Palestinians living in Gaza are internally displaced. Just about every medical facility has been destroyed. One in six Palestinian children in northern Gaza are estimated to be on the brink of starvation. Many Palestinians have resorted to eating grass, rotting food, or animal feed. A two-month old Palestinian child starved to death in Central Gaza on Friday.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Said the people who cut aid based on a dodgy dossier after the court ruled Israel was likely genociding people.
Even US intelligence classifies the data as “low confidence”.
Clever comparison to Mogadishu. Clever by half,
In Mogadishu nobody tried to bring million “settlers” to colonize land stolen from natives. Isral has a purpose. Long standing and well documented. Do not want natives , but want their land. Every texbook case of genocide is the same. Israel ticks all the boxes.
Is the intent genuine… Or is it reverse psychology…?!
It’s just a typo. It’s “Turning Gaza into Gaza.” Hence the term, “Don’t Gaza me.”
“US Officials Warn Israeli Disruptions to Aid Is ‘Turning Gaza into Mogadishu’” Whenever you hear “US Officials Warn or Are Concerned Israeli…,” you’d better be prepared for a lot of cow manure to be squirted in your face. I try to close my mouth when that happens to prevent it from entering my mouth but it would be better if I pinch my nose as well.
When ANY U.S. official opens their mouth you know you need to duck and cover.
I remember when I was very young, and I got a $2 allowance every week. And I remember my parents ASKING me to behave in order to continue to receive that $2 per week.
Heh. I got two bucks a week also. When I was 12, I asked for a raise. Instead, my dad told me the allowance was ending, but that if I mowed our yard each week I could use the mower to earn money mowing neighbors’ yards. He even already had two lined up for me, at $3 each. By the end of the summer I was knocking down $10 a week or more. Then when winter came I shoveled walks and did that comic book “sell greeting cards door to door” thing and such.
I did not receive an allowance. My crazy money came from mowing lawns (with a push mower) , hustling coke bottles for redemption, then throwing newspapers (until I got fired for launching one on a roof by accident) My first real job, in a welding shop, was when I was 13. Earned $1/hr. At 14 I worked in restaurant chain bakery, then busboy. Then prep cook. I played baseball, football, ran track in high school, while continuing to work in the restaurant. Didn’t have to shovel snow, though. So Cal kid.
You guys are lucky. I grew up on a farm and I didn’t start earning money from my work until I turned 18. My parents did let me start driving my grandparents old ’73 Buick (this was in the 90’s) as soon as I got my farmers permit when I turned 14 though. I was thought I was king of the world.
All in all I’d have rather stayed on the farm we moved off of when I was 10. If I hadn’t been mowing yards in town when I turned 12, I’d have been making money doing jobs centered around e.g. hauling hay. Ours was a subsistence farm but there was plenty of farm work to be had nearby. I remember the first time my brother came home and had made $100 in a single day (probably around 1975). I think that may have involved driving from southern Missouri to southern Arkansas, filling a pickup with watermelons, driving them back, and selling them by the road. A local farmer provided the trucks and gas and paid for the watermelons, the kids got a cut of the sales.
The problem today is that kids have no incentive, everything is handed to them on a silver platter.
This is what God’s Chosen have planned for the rest of us animals.
In the news this morning, Israel open fire’s on Palestinians waitig for food and water! 100% indefensible and a criminal act. The world needs to stand up to these genocidal madmen, cut all trade with Israel and declare Zionism a terrorist organization! It’s not like israel will simply stop with Hamas, like their plan has stated for decades, from the river to the sea. They won’t stop til they have it all!
If Biden, and congress, wanted to do anything about it they would. Just send our troops there to guard the trucks. If Israel attacks, then this time there will be no withdrawing of jet fighters like Johnson did in 1967. That event made chrystal clear to me that Israel is not our friend by any means.
I don’t think Mogadishu has ever been as thoroughly devastated as large portions of Gaza.
White House to Israel: ‘No More Mister American Nice Guy’
“Washington has asked Tel Aviv to stop attacking…Gazan police force attempting to escort aid deliveries in the Strip”
Turning up heat, stern-jawed Blinken commands, “Pretty please.”