Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that Israel would allow a “basic” amount of food to enter Gaza after a more than 70-day total blockade on the Palestinian territory.
“On the recommendation of the IDF, and out of the operational need to enable the expansion of the intense fighting to defeat Hamas, Israel will introduce a basic amount of food to the population in order to ensure that a famine crisis does not develop in the Gaza Strip,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, according to Drop Site News.
Netanyahu said that a famine would “jeopardize” Israel’s new military campaign in Gaza, dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots,” which was launched in recent days as the Israeli military has significantly stepped up strikes on Gaza and expanded ground operations, killing hundreds of Palestinians.
Netanyahu’s statement added that Israel “will work to deny Hamas’s ability to take control of the distribution of humanitarian aid to ensure that the aid does not reach Hamas terrorists.”
According to the Israeli news site Ynet, Netanyahu told his security cabinet that the decision was necessary due to pressure from the US. In recent days, high-level US officials have expressed concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Israeli media also reported that aid will be distributed by international organizations, including the UN’s World Food Program and the US-based World Central Kitchen, before being done through a new US and Israeli-backed foundation, a plan the UN has condemned as not sufficient to bring real relief to Gaza’s civilian population.
Both the WFP and WCK have recently shuttered operations in Gaza after running out of supplies due to the Israeli blockade. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 57 children have died of malnutrition since the total blockade was imposed on March 2.
This is a crisis that requires tremendous assistance and immediately!….
The ruling regimes know it, but it means nothing to them.
"Netanyahu said that a famine would “jeopardize” Israel’s new military campaign in Gaza"
How is that? You want them to die a quick death instead of a slow one?
The IDF needs more target practice?
This statement does not compute with me.
It’s the food for bombs deal with the US.
A last meal for the Palestinians.
Evil is too nice a word…
The IDF has started sending more ground forces into northern and southern Gaza as part of a major expansion of its offensive in the strip.
Palestinian health authorities say more than 460 people have been killed in intense Israeli strikes over the past week.
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This time with starvation of children. Shooting of children. Burning of children.
Seen it before. In the NAZI camps.
Early Zionists syncretized many aspects of European fascism, white supremacy, colonialism and messianic Evangelism and had a long and sordid history of cooperating with anti-Semites, imperialists and fascists in order to promote exclusivist and expansionist agendas.
Haavara Agreement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haavara_Agreement
Now that’s a pathetic reason…!
That is like the Germans saying the Holocaust never happened.
So now the Gazans have a bit of food in their stomachs before they’re bombed/burned/ shot?
How very generous, Satanyahu.
Pretty much it.
We know of Israeli depravity. Let's acknowledge the courage, steadfastness and faithfulness of the people of Gaza. It is their resilience that forces Trump and Netanyahu to make concessions they otherwise would not choose to make. And all of you keep up speaking out, positing and spreading the truth. It's what will make the difference in the end.
It is a little consolation too all those little angels that died of hunger, the most painful death for a child whose young organism fights to live as long it can. Bombing may be more mercuful,
"On the recommendation of the IDF, and out of the operational need to enable the expansion of the intense fighting to defeat Hamas, Israel will introduce a basic amount of food to the population."
Imagine – from starvation, your body can't make milk to breastfeed, so you watch your crying and crying infant starve to death…hope it lessens that one criminal torture – even as Israel's ramped-up, indiscriminate bombing murders and maims and buries mothers and infants as they feed.
As another poster said, the govt explanation doesn't make sense. Guessing admitting limited food is because deliberately and openly starving the noncombatant population to death has been bad pr:
internationally, besides being criminal, it is so monstrous it's turning greater publics against the siege, and making even passive western governments and media respond (Beyond fanatics, few bought the 'Hamas surrender' line.);
domestically, significant majorities of Israelis want the government to end the war now – so continuing and escalating is even more antidemocratic, and, guessing, for IDF reservists, the idea of fighting while the govt is starving to death the "population" increases already-high IDF evasion.
So IDF could have made a recommendation for that nonhumanitarian reason.
And – 'operational' purpose may also be to control food distribution points, in order to move food-desperate civilians into a yet-more-confined space – as the govt's already said it wants to.
Be in a home. Be bombed
Be in a tent. Be bombed.
Be in the open. Be shot, then be bombed. Usually double tapped.
It'd be acceptable in international law given conditions for a 'basic' amount of missiles to be sent the the IDF's way, but it looks like no one outside of Ansar Allah is up to it.
The smell of his poop pileup is so strong, that even Bibi has to flush once in a while.
He is "poop" with feet.
… and no head…!
Same old caloric calculations by Israel from years ago, allowing in just enough food to meet only the basic caloric needs. Nothing more.
In the past, chocolate and potato chips were banned.
And, any excuse to turn the food spigot off.
Starvatio and famine…. Take a load off!…
This was part of the deal President Trump made with Hamas to get the Israeli-American soldier released last week.
There is no reason to believe one word. The damage already done can't be undone. The savage brutality will continue.
The never ending official lies are like Germans saying the holocaust never happened.