The UN said Tuesday that it halted food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah due to the lack of supplies and that no aid trucks were entering the Strip through the US-built pier, The Associated Press reported.
The vital Rafah border crossing has been closed to aid deliveries since it was captured by Israeli forces on May 7, an operation that was approved by President Biden. The UN estimates over 800,000 Palestinians have fled Rafah since Israel launched its assault, but hundreds of thousands remain, as it was estimated that 1.4 million civilians were sheltering in the city before the Israeli operation.
The UN’s World Food Program (WFP) said it was also running out of food for central Gaza and is warning that “humanitarian operations in Gaza are near collapse” and food needs to enter the Strip in “massive quantities” or famine-like conditions will spread.
Only 21 aid trucks have entered Gaza through the $320 million US-built pier. Ten trucks went through on Friday and made it to the WFP, but on Saturday, 11 trucks that came through the pier were raided by hungry Palestinians.
The WFP said Israel needs to provide conditions for aid groups to operate safely, or the US-built pier will fail. “We have raised this issue with the relevant parties and reiterated our request for alternative roads to facilitate aid delivery. Unless we receive the necessary clearance and coordination to use additional routes, this operation may not be successful,” said WFP spokesman Steve Taravella.
President Biden ordered the construction of the pier instead of pressuring Israel to open more border crossings, which is by far the most efficient way to get aid into Gaza. The US claims it’s opposed to Israel’s restrictions on aid deliveries but has not imposed any consequences for the closure of the Rafah crossing and the tightening of the starvation blockade.
How do you express outrage and disgust five thousand times?
Where TF is the ICJ?
It’s because of the 15 only one is impartial, the rest antisemites.
Lol, In regards to which Israel-Palestine case?
(1) – South Africa v Israel – 5/10 Application for addt’l provisional measures ?
(2) – Nicaragua v. Germany ? or….
(3) – Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (Request for Advisory Opinion)
I think (3) might be where tf the ICJ will be found for quite some time, depending on how they constrain the 108 yrs of legal FUBARing the colonial powers +US have done in west asia 🙂
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/186/request-advisory-opinion
Really I meant wtf is the hold up? They have more than enough evidence. There is no sense of urgency.
Get it over with. Then we can see how no international laws really matter anymore. Because the US and Israel will condemn it as antisemitism, which we know by now, is a big dumb cudgel to beat down criticism and justice.
You’re not considering the power differential between the ICJ & ICC. The ICJ never had the power to inflict punitive justice on Israel. The ICJ makes a ruling, non-binding though it is and rare that it happens, but Israel ignores it and the other party, in (1) above South Africa, has to take it to the – Where? You guessed it, the Security Council.
The ICC on the other hand, distinct from the UN, can put Netenyahu in jail 🙂 Of course he wont’ go to jail, not saved by Israeli hasbara but by the right travel plans. Unfortunately the US is one of the very few countries not a party to the Rome Statute and thus won’t arrest him 🙂
A consequence we may well get to celebrate, not that the neocons will stop chasing it, but there likely more warrants to come. Some that lower the US flag on the neocon dream of global domination.
I understand all of that.
The point is the mechanisms allegedly put in place for “never again” are revealing themselves as a farce.
ED, that our international institutions were developed by neocolonial/imperialist powers to their advantage is not a sudden reveal.
The new world order BRICS speaks of is the much needed reforming of our international institutions. Replacing the unwritten rules-based-order for some by the equalitarian justice of the law-based-order promised. The Global Majority understood it early on, having experienced it firsthand they didn’t need a senior leader to tell them as the leaders told Karim Khan after the warrants announcement: ‘This court is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin.’
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-africans-putin-israel-hamas-karim-khan
Or is that your point – “never again” was supposed to apply to white people?
Yes, we know it. Let them come right out and show their asses.
God Bless the Students 🙂
Why is that not on Rumble? Youtube makes you sign in.
Don’t know, it’s been pretty well censored. I was surprised to find youtube w/the video as they had that blocked for awhile, maybe that’s when they added the age requirement. I find the video as impactful as the words.
Thanks. Don’t want to sign in to youtube.
“How do you express outrage and disgust five thousand times?”
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That is a true problem – both besetting and historically recurrent:
in what ways does one live? – how should we live? – in the face of ongoing injustices that one experiences as grievous and urgent without necessarily being the direct victim of?
I have my own ideas about – and experiences of – this…curious about others’ views.
Please share.
Borrell is a dick, but he has moments of telling the truth.
Borrell reacts to call to arrest Israeli PM
“All states that have ratified the ICC statutes are bound to execute the Court’s decisions,” the top EU diplomat said
He should have added Joseph Biden, et al here in America. Speaking of Mr. Biden, has he made mention of this: https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/israel-seizes-aps-equipment-reverses-move-after-pressure/
We’ll see his actions more than his words. We’ll see his words when he is indicted, for he is next to van der Leyen on of those personally answerable to the EU providing Israel with assistance, militarily and diplomatically, to genocide. He should rot in jail for the rest of his days.
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I’m told Norway, Spain & Ireland will make a coordinated announcement announcing a joint move to recognise Palestine on 1967 borders. All will formally recognise on May 28 once internal processes are done. Slovenia will follow on June 13. Belgium and France also in play.
The “pier” is not for incoming food and medical supplies, it is for the deportation of Palestinians to other nations, such as the USA.
The only “deportation” will be to the Sinai desert. In an interview by Chris Hedges in Oct. 2023, Mr. Norman Finkelstein predicted that would be the “final solution”. He also predicted that he ethnic cleansing, the genocide,would be forgotten, like previous “operations” by Israel, just like Protective Edge and Cast Lead have been forgotten. His words: “they will go to the Sinai desert……………to die”.
Sadly from what Israel has been doing, it’s not too far to believe that they could just drown Palestinians in sea versus the Sinai Peninsula destination…!
Eight months is a long time in this Genocide. Blinken repeatedly tried to get Egypt to agree to open the Sinai to the refugees, including offering the cancelation of Eqypt’s IMF loans, Sisi refused. Now with Israel violating their treaty with their Rafah actions, Sisi’s threatening to suspend the treaty. We’ll see.
Is anyone placing bets on the ‘Aid Pier’ being rapidly repurposed to support Israeli and British drilling in the oil fields off Gaza’s coast? We don’t spend $32o million taxpayer dollars for 21 trucks to roll a few hundred yards. Then again, maybe we do.
The trucks are not getting through. That $320 million could have fixed the 110 freeway in L.A.
The pier was built to eventually ship Palestinians out of Gaza…!
What aid that does get through is stopped, the trucks ransacked by settlers. Young settlers destroying the aid. This is the future generation for Israel. The Israeli society is the reflection of the Likud administration, led by Netanyahu, Ben-Givr.
The Pier is just more STALL and KILL, a tool being used by the USA to continue their Genocide of Palestinians. Biden can NOT escape that HE is responsible for the Genocide, along with the other War Criminals in Israel. The UN and every agency responsible for giving out humanitarian aide, have stated the Pier is useless, only TRUCKS can deliver the goods into Gaza. Nobody is being fooled by the Zionist in D.C. pretending to help starving people, they are contributing to their starvation. The USA/Israel/UK/EU should all be considered as complicity in War Crimes. What Democracies have done anything to help STOP the Israeli War Criminals from continuing their CARNAGE in Gaza?
Ireland, Spain and Portugal are democracies that will recognize the State of Palestine this month; Israel’s recalled their diplomats.
And if I’m not mistaken, those that knowingly sold Israeli hasbara – such as the multi-debunked 40 beheaded babies – are also subject to charges of complicity in Genocide.