Secretary of State Marco Rubio informed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that President Donald Trump has become “concerned” about the Palestinians in Gaza. In March, Tel Aviv imposed a total blockade on all goods and aid entering the Strip, leading to widespread starvation.
Axios reporter and IDF veteran Barak Ravid posted to X on Thursday, “US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke by phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu and told him that the Trump administration is concerned about the humanitarian situation in Gaza.”
Tel Aviv is responsible for the mass suffering in Gaza as the IDF is preventing all food, fuel, and medicine from entering the territory. At least scores of children have starved to death over the past two weeks.
Israel has also stepped up attacks on Gaza’s already partially destroyed hospital network. Earlier this week, Tel Aviv admitted to dropping nine bunker-busting bombs on or near the European Hospital in southern Gaza in an attempt to kill a single Hamas member.
On Friday, Trump told reporters while in the UAE, “We’re looking at Gaza, and we got to get that taken care of. A lot of people are starving.” He added, “A lot of people. There’s a lot of bad things going on.”
The previous day, Trump restated his plan to have American forces take over Gaza and turn the Strip into a “freedom zone.”
“I have concepts for Gaza that I think are very good: Make it a freedom zone. Let the United States get involved, and make it just a freedom zone,” the president said. “I’d be proud to have the United States have it, take it, make it a freedom zone, let some good things happen. Put people in homes where they can be safe, and Hamas is going to have to be dealt with.”
Trump floated a similar proposal earlier in his administration. At the time, he said the Palestinians would be removed from the Strip and sent to live in refugee cities in third countries.
That plan is in line with what has been proposed in Tel Aviv. Netanyahu recently said that even if Hamas released its remaining Israeli hostages, the IDF would continue operations in Gaza and at least 50% of Palestinians would be forced from their homeland.
Following the Netanyahu call with Rubio, Israel unleashed a massive assault on northern Gaza. On Friday, sources in Gaza said at least 100 Palestinians had been killed over the previous 24-hour period. Some sources put the number as high as 250. The IDF said on Friday it had conducted over 150 strikes in the last day alone.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com and news editor of the Libertarian Institute. He hosts The Kyle Anzalone Show and is co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Connor Freeman.
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All you have are cheap propaganda posters. You have yet to add an academic response on this website
This is not an academic website.
Nor would any peer-reviewed academic journal take more than a cursory look at any of your posts before filing them in the trash.
I notice your crayon markings were upvoted by, to me, a new name to the game: binber.
Another Pseudonym, perhaps?
On Friday, Trump told reporters while in the UAE, “We’re looking at Gaza, and we got to get that taken care of. A lot of people are starving.” He added, “A lot of people. There’s a lot of bad things going on.”
Trump said the same thing 3 weeks ago when the blockade was at day 55.
Trump says he told Netanyahu ‘we’ve got to be good to Gaza’ and get more aid in
US president reminded PM ‘those people are suffering’ in enclave: ‘There’s a very big need for food, medicine. We’re taking care of it’; says Netanyahu ‘felt well about’ request
By Jacob Magid, Follow
Agencies and ToI Staff
25 April 2025, 10:19 pm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-says-he-told-netanyahu-weve-got-to-be-good-to-gaza-and-get-more-aid-in/
So, Rubio and Trump are full of shit.
… to the neck…! Also, little Marco is acting as Secretary of State deputy to Witkoff…!
Short People:
Too funny, Donna!
Giving shit a bad name……………….
Hamas, please just lay down your arms and release all the hostages and end what you initiated, and the good people of Gaza will get what they need immediately, unless it is worth it to you to watch your people suffer needlessly.
ICC, please prosecute the Zionist war criminals, and the good people of Gaza will get what they need immediately, unless it is worth it to you to watch these people suffer endlessly.
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Alas the ICC is a European neocolonialist outfit that is only interested in prosecuting black Africans. I think at best the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant were a rather feeble attempt to do something about their image problem. They are clearly of the opinion that they have done enough by that issuing that gesture.
The Israeli regime openly disagrees with what you assert would be the consequences of your prescription.
"Hamas, please just lay down your arms and"…Israel will 'take care of' Gaza's women and children immediately.
"In Israel, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream" (The Conversation, April 2025)
Israeli television personality Elad Barashi: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/60a0c067337a90d3140cbbf83ba7b7b67b7a675a6ae82126ac8fbf2c32964ff0.png Owen Jones, Youtube, “GAS CHAMBERS” In Gaza: Prominent Israeli Demands “HOLOCAUST”
Social Media users in Israel expressed outrage and criticized Barashi for his "graphic description" and dehumanization of Palestinians.
Do you know what the exact translation is from Hebrew? If what he said is true, then he should be condemned.
On the other hand, what was Hamas's backup plan for the Oct 7th massacre of Israelis and the rounding up of hostages of all ages?
The plan was to negotiate the release of extrajudicially kidnapped Palestinians in nightmarish Israeli torture/rape prisons! Sounds like a Jewish plot from WW2 to free their people from Nazi internment. But when non-Israelis do it, it's wrong!
You actually believe this crap!? If or when Hamas does "lay down their arms", Israel will proceed to destroy and murder like they always have, once again not abiding by a treaty or ceasefire. The USA and its Israeli-enabling "leaders" need to be in the docket when war crimes trials are initiated! Israel is at fault for this war, PERIOD!!! They let O7 happen, that's public knowledge, even among Israelis. Then Israel responded with an October 7,000,000, disproportinately punishing the civilian population (a war crime), while the world gives a collective yawn. Israeli ass-kissers like you should be ashamed of yourselves!
As long as they can't see the racism in what they have been doing, they will never change. They can't understand why farmers living in Palestine minding their own business would resist occupation and their dispossession. Furthermore, if they are so great why didn't they win over the people they conquered? Either because they are not great or because these people are savages and just deserve subjugation and genocide by the superior race. At the end of the day its envy. Islam was able to do that, i.e., win over the people they conquered. You see for example his continuous posts of how most of the Arab countries were not "Arab." Yet 1400 years later they are proud of their heritage and religion. These Zionists have a problem with Islam and humanity, that's why they will go down in the history books as Nazis.
Giving up does not seem to be an option for the Islamic fighters of the Hamas Brigades, but instead continuing to hand over the Palestinian civilian population to the terror of the Israeli military.
Aaaaaand, Pipsqeak:
There was Oct. 6. And Oct. 5. And Oct. 4.
Do I have to go back to 1948, SFB?
Sure, the president's coin dropped late…!
Yes well, this is indeed about as believable as reports about Himmler having remarked he has become concerned about the Jews in Auschwitz II, some 2 years after the Wannsee conference.
Like Drumpf is "concerned" that the Zionists have no "finished the job" quickly enough, so he can move on to more in your (our) face grift.
Trump is not concerned about Gazans… rather about Israel finishing the job in couple of months as you said, which would take decades…! Meanwhile Hamas takes care of IDF job one by one…! As I mentioned previously Palestinians would outlive Trump and the criminal minister…!
Isn’t Little Marco’s “concern” JUST so f*cking heartwarming…
He’s following the grand tradition of the Biden administration by using passive phrasing and not doing jackshit.
People aren’t starving. There wasn’t some natural catastrophe that wiped out their sustenance. They are being starved by Israel, intentionally. Israelis are blocking food, they have destroyed water treatment, burned down groves and wanted to use aid to target innocent civilians like fish in a barrel.
Fuck Trump.
With a pole wrapped with barbed wire………………
https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts
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As long as Trump doesn't try to transport or deliver humanitarian assistance to Gaza, he's not breaking the law.
Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act. This section prohibits the provision of military assistance to any country that prohibits or restricts the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian assistance.
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The US government works with a double standard regarding Cuba or Israel.
https://civiliansinconflict.org/publications/policy/fact-sheet-section-620i-of-the-foreign-assistance-act/
https://www.justsecurity.org/93589/no-military-assistance-to-states-restricting-aid/
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-1071/pdf/COMPS-1071.pdf FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1961
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2378-1&num=0&edition=prelim#sourcecredit Prohibition on assistance to countries that restrict United States humanitarian assistance
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/2370 Prohibitions against furnishing assistance, Cuba; embargo on all trade
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/reevaluating-and-realigning-united-states-foreign-aid/
You sure did your homework.
Looks like there’s a loop hole
Section 620I includes a waiver mechanism stipulating that the United States can provide security
assistance despite the prohibition if the President finds that doing so is in the national security
interest of the United States
Rubio is a joke.
No, he's not.
Rubio: Trump Is 'Concerned About Humanitarian Situation in Gaza'
Witkoff Said the US Won't Force Israel To End Gaza Slaughter.
That is all I need to know: nothing will be done.
I’m seeing some air drop videos in Gaza from alleged American planes… Can’t find any other source to confirm.
Anyone else heard these rummers?
Every so often you see news stories from over a year ago (or even longer) get promoted as if they just happened. Seen similar stories on Flipboard from March 2024. Sometimes there's a reason for it ("remember this?") but usually there's no additional context given.
Yes, it’s deceptive.
Maybe it’s wishful thinking.
Maybe misdirection.
https://israelpalestinenews.org/thursday-was-deadliest-day-in-gaza-and-israeli-prisons-since-march-war-on-gaza-day-587/
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA, SHEESH, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
Drumpf "concerned" about anything?????
Trump is not concerned about "The Humanitarian Situation In Gaza" which is a GENOCIDE! Trump like Biden, has been arming Israel to the teeth with 2ooo lb bombs & said Israel must finish the job.
Saying Trump is concerned about that is like saying Hitler was concerned about "The Humanitarian Situation In Europe" which was also a GENOCIDE!
What’s this utter shit about a “Freedom Zone”?
Freedom for whom? More Zionazi squatters?