The amount of aid entering Gaza has fallen to its lowest level since Israel unleashed its brutal military campaign on the territory in October 2023 as Israel imposed a starvation blockade on northern Gaza earlier this month.
According to the UN, only 703 truckloads of aid entered Gaza between October 1 and October 22. The number marks a significant decline in the previous rate of aid entering the Strip. In September, just over 3,000 aid trucks were allowed into Gaza, which was already the lowest rate in any month of the past year.
The decline in aid deliveries has continued despite a letter that the US sent to Israel on October 14 that gave Israeli officials 30 days to ease the starvation blockade, a deadline that comes after the US presidential election. The letter called for Israel to allow 350 aid trucks into Gaza per day and said if the demands were not met there would be “implications” for US policy related to foreign assistance laws.
But the letter did not explicitly say the US would cut off military aid and the State Department has refused to say if there would be any consequences. Hala Rharrit, a former Arabic language spokeswoman for the State Department who resigned over US support for the slaughter in Gaza, said the letter was clearly a pre-election public relations ploy. Rharrit also noted the US was violating foreign assistance laws by providing military aid to Israel as its purposely preventing aid deliveries to starve Palestinians.
At the beginning of October, Israel ordered hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians to evacuate northern Gaza and cut off all aid deliveries into the area, following an outline for ethnic cleansing known as the “general’s plan.” Very few aid trucks have entered northern Gaza since then, but none have reached Jabalia and the towns around it, where the Israeli military has focused its military assault.
Joyce Msuya, the UN’s acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, recently warned that the “entire population of north Gaza is at risk of dying” due to the siege and Israeli military operations, which have targeted hospitals and buildings sheltering displaced Palestinians.
“What Israeli forces are doing in besieged north Gaza cannot be allowed to continue,” Msuya said. “Shelters have been emptied and burned down…families have been separated, and men and boys taken away by the truckload.”
The empire is lawless.
It's lawless to be an empire. But I repeat myself.
How many are in North Gaza?
I guess they figure there are a lot fewer mouths to feed now.
Maybe it would be a more humane solution to gas the inmates in Gaza rather than have them killed slowly and painfully by bombs, snipers and starvation?
Anyone have a feel for Patriot Vision pva? There is a gofundme site, but are they able to deliver?
They get aid in?
That’s what I’m asking.
I doubt it.
I can’t upvote a sad answer. But I appreciate the response.
WHO WILL SIGN THE PERMIT , Biden, Harris, or Trump? No chance, like a drop of water on a hot stone.
We are witnessing a new stage of American "Global War on Terrorism"
There should be a global war on American terrorism
Sorry, I noticed a typo: “entire population of north Gaza is
at risk ofdying”The decline in aid deliveries has continued despite a letter that the US sent to Israel on October 14 that gave Israeli officials 30 days to ease the starvation blockade, a deadline that comes after the US presidential election. The letter called for Israel to allow 350 aid trucks into Gaza per day and said if the demands were not met there would be “implications” for US policy related to foreign assistance laws.
I still can't get over how sick this is. Not demanding that the 350 aid trucks be allowed to enter IMEDIATELY is really so disgusting that it's an embarrassment to be a citizen of this country.
500 trucks/day were the minimum for Gaza before 2.Oct
I don't know who from the US came up with that 350 number that was in that letter but that in itself was insulting. And that 500 per day before the war still left many in Gaza listed as "food insecure".
I think the US meant "a small number of F-350 trucks" kitted out with TidyTanks and tool boxes to minimise cargo space for ACTUAL relief supplies.
And all of us here, even the trolls like Jake, knew not to expect any action other than words to suit the election to look good if that were possible.
How does one make mad dogs look electable? How does one replace them with a new pack of mad dogs?
Very true – and on a GOOD day, 'joke' can't find his own a$$ with two hands & a flashlight.
I take JaKe out of my post. He responded to my post, he is nuts, he has lost all his marbles.
Hamas must surrender and release the hostages for this horror to end.
The kinetic fight is over, or at least over for now.
Sure, and then what? Go on living in the worlds largest concentration camp? Have all of life’s essentials meted out by a regime that just wants you to disappear? Continue to be periodically massacred? Why not release the thousands of hostages held for years now without charge by Israel, Bob? Why is it so difficult understand that Hamas and Oct 7 aren’t the problem, they’re the response to decades of problems? You know what the difference is between you and people from N Korea, Bob? People from N Korea know they’re being propagandized.
Other difference is, the entirety of the DPRK population DOESN'T have its head up its a$$.
This is the result of the ruling class of criminal sh*theads ruling USA/ISRAEL for decades. And the American voters are ready to replace the old set of sh*theads, war criminals with a new set of monsters.
Hamas can't surrender, if they did the monsters in Tel Aviv and Washington will continue where they left off before Oct. 7 except even much worse and more brutal and cruel if that is even possible. Who would stop them, Harris or Trump? What a joke that is.
All the crimes committed by the Israelis and Israel by a little nation not even 80 years old. It started with a crime of terrorism and will end with more unimageable slaughter.
EVIL ISRAELI Zionists must surrender, contrary to what they say, PALESTINIANS are HUMAN BEINGS and they DO HAVE HUMANN RIGHTS. Zionists are war criminals who should be hanged from the highest trees, starting with the criminal Biden administration and the butcher of Gaza Netanyahu and his evil Zionists in Tel Aviv. They are, to put it mildly, despicable people.
Tim Burns, you cut your hair & spiffy'd up your wardrobe !
Apart from the cosmetic changes, your s**tball Apartheid State of Israel apologetics still stink exactly the same.
Hoping this site & Disqus can't match this shadow IP address to your usual one ?
So, you want this war to continue, thanks for the honesty.
Au contraine, the Likud needs to sue for peace PDQ. 242 is better than 181 and a heck of a lot better than the Algerian outcome.
The IDF has been defeated on the battlefield. Don‘t equate Blind Rage Atrocities with prevailing militarily. Blind Rage Atrocities are the hallmark of defeated militaries.
Get the damn led out and help these poor folks get the aid they need!
In WWII part of the West perpetrated the worst crime of that century, the deliberate destruction of a people deemed less than human while the rest of the West stood idly by or actively participated in it. The excuse being put forth for this behavior: "Wir haben es nicht gewusst." They knew and they knew very well. They were just no longer comfortable in displaying their enthusiastic support openly, or able to argue the victims of the genocide got what they deserved. That was not in Germany alone.
These same Western elites responsible for the Holocaust gather around some memorial annually to pretend to repent to be magically absolved from their historical crimes and protected against repeating it by performing a ritual for a couple of minutes. Peppermint moments of solemn hypocrisy. Completely useless if no lessons were learned. And no lessons were learned.
Today part of that West again is perpetrating the worst crime of this century, while the rest of the West is standing by idly or actively participating in it. And we're still in that phase where the perpetrators are comfortable displaying their enthusiastic support openly, and argue the victims of the genocide get what they deserve. After all they're less than human. This not in Israel alone.
The rest of future history will inevitably follow. If it indeed rhymes it must be the devil's poetry.
The hopelessness and especially helplessness is heavy and probably intended.
The Likud’s Willing Executioners
"while the rest of the West stood idly by" They did? Exactly what where the millions of American and British troop doing to prevent this? Perhaps destroying Hitlers army.