Israel is still blocking a US-funded flour shipment into the Gaza Strip that was announced by the White House 46 days ago, a US official told The Times of Israel on Tuesday.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich initially said he blocked the shipment because it was going through the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, known as UNWRA. About two weeks ago, US officials said Israel agreed to unblock the shipment and send it through the World Food Program, but it still hasn’t entered Gaza, where children are dying of starvation. The flour is stuck at the Israeli port of Ashdod.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the US in January that he would allow the shipment to go through, but he has not been true to his word. The US official did not elaborate on why the flour continues to be blocked.
State Department spokesman Matt Miller referenced the flour when asked about Israeli ministers who are restricting aid into Gaza. “You have seen ministers in the Israeli Government block the release of flour from the port at Ashdod; you have seen ministers of the Israeli Government supporting protests that blocked aid from going into Kerem Shalom,” he said.
Miller insisted the US has said the restrictions on aid are “unacceptable,” but the Biden administration isn’t using any of its significant leverage over Israel since it continues to provide unconditional military aid for the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians.
Instead of using its leverage on Israel, the US began dropping aid from planes over Gaza over the weekend and carried out another airdrop of about 36,000 meals with the Jordanian Air Force on Tuesday. Oxfam said the airdrops “mostly serve to relieve the guilty consciences of senior US officials whose policies are contributing to the ongoing atrocities and risk of famine in Gaza.”
On Tuesday, an elderly Palestinian man died of dehydration and malnutrition in northern Gaza. In recent days, at least 16 Palestinian children have died of starvation, and the UN is warning the number will “increase rapidly” if the situation on the ground doesn’t dramatically change.
Israeli War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz was in Washington on Monday and Tuesday on a trip not approved by Netanyahu. According to Axios, US officials expressed criticism and frustration to Gantz over the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The report said the slaughter of over 100 Palestinians waiting for aid by Israeli forces was a “turning point” for the US, and publicly, administration officials have also sharpened their rhetoric. But there’s still no sign the Biden administration is considering a fundamental policy change, and military aid to Israel continues to flow.
Zionists never miss an opportunity to do something nasty to Muslims and Christians.
And hiding very well that many East Jerusalm Palestinians are Christians. And they are mercilessly evicted from their homes.
It’s blocked because the US is helping Israel with the starvation program. Early on the IDF bombed and destroyed all of the bakeries and food related shops in Gaza, now this. Depopulation of an area by starvation is an old tactic used in the past by Stalin and Mao. Yesterday the WHO stated that ten more children died of starvation, which is probably the tip of the iceberg.
‘Depopulation of an area by starvation is an old tactic used in the past’ by Presidents of the usa!
Also biochemical warfare on Native Americans – blankets laced with smallpox.
Absolutely, positively, definitely, not a genocide. No sirree
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“the Biden administration isn’t using any of its significant leverage over Israel since it continues to provide unconditional military aid for the slaughter and starvation of Palestinians.” “We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.”
First, this is so abhorrent as I’ve said multiple times. Secondly, what can you do with flour without at least water and an energy source to heat it? Never mind eggs, salt, yeast or other ingredients.
Some of the pallets from the Biden airdrop landed in the Mediterranean.
Probably on purpose. Have you ever tried swimming while dying from starvation? …wut …Your name is “Dieter?”
Sorry guys, one more time. Israel is so nice. “Israel Still Blocking US-Funded Flour Shipment Into Gaza.” …I’m waiting for one of the deepstaters to respond with, “Israel and the US can’t do anything right, can they?” …Even though I’m starting by saying how nice is Israel?
No clean water, no fuel, no electricity , no bakeries, no homes, no where to bake the flour .
One can mix flour with sea water and dry it in the sun. I think, they call it matza.
Pathetic.
The report said the slaughter of over 100 Palestinians waiting for aid by Israeli forces was a “turning point” for the US
US Vetoes UN Condemnation of Israel for Massacre
Who in the fu*k is bullsh*tting who?
Thanks for using plain and simple language WARS! EFF them all, if they endorse war and not peace!
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Ironic how a group who suffered so badly they live by the phrase ‘never again’ and so those very descendants do virtually the same to those who had nothing to do with the original crime…
These are the ‘Chosen’?
Supported by the greatest purveyors of violence and the largest exporters of terrorism in the world today; the us gov
Whom, by the way is itching to slug it out with china in chinas lake,is chomping at the bits to invade russia and steal its nukes while creating the biggest national debt in world history with no way to pay for it but by bs and flim flam.. Under an umbrella of a 6th mass extinction(that we are causing),climate catastrophe(unstoppable)and it seems we are in the beginnings of our own personal species termination( i wonder who will mourn?)
I hear some of the “food” being airdropped by the U.S. has to be microwaved before being consumed…as if the Palestinians in Gaza have microwaves.
Let us not get fooled by this airdropping food thing the U.S. is doing. It is merely a PR stunt so that when reckoning time comes in front of the judges in the Haque, Genocide Joe can show some “plausible deniability.” In reality Genocide Joe and his entire posse are still “all in” with satinist psycho-killer Nutandyahoo who is out to complete the “final solution” on the Palestinian people.
It’s obvious… They’re stealing the flour…!
…and Pathetic US is allowing it…!
Yes the famous port of Ashdod. Where all imports to Palestinis go. To be halfedcin the name of “fees” being charged to Palestinians for the service they provide.
BDS…Israel is a fiendish state whose complete lack of humanity will lead to its eventual demise. Who cares about a state that acts like terrorists and ghouls. Goodbye Israel…
It did forfeit its right to exist. Demonic horrors influcted on humans is something out of science fiction. Borg.
Remember demons exist. Once in a while they show their faces. This is a good opportunity to see them. And beware. We need an exiorcist. Or a Stalin.
“State Department spokesman Matt Miller….insisted the US has said the restrictions on aid are ‘unacceptable.'”
Asked how the US had conveyed to Israel that its deliberate starvation of a trapped people was “unacceptable,” Miller elaborated, ‘Behind closed doors, we have harumphed. And we will continue to harumph!’
Do we care? The world does not care to hear what the clown show has to say.
Gaza has one border which is not with Israel or Egypt. It is a border with an international waterway, the Mediterranean Sea. That border is patrolled by the IDF which violently interferes with the fishing of Gaza fishermen. Biden can end that with the stroke of his pen on a PO. Maintain armed US drones over the fishing areas 24/7. And order Israel to expand the fishing zone everywhere from 400 meters to 2 kilometers. Provide fishing implements and fuel if needed to the Gaza fishermen. Shoot at IDF vessels which fire at fishermen.
The notion that Biden can do nothing but drop meals is BS.
Israel blocked the shipment because they thought U.S. meant “flower” for Bibi or the dead.
Biden is the monkey and Bibi is operating the organ grinder.
Every day I tune in the world dips deeper into the shit. This clusterfuck has acquired its own momentum. Washington has been taken over by the inmates, Zelensky is in charge of Europe, and Netanyahu is possessed by demons.