“According to the most respected measure of these things, 100 percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. That’s the first time an entire population has been so classified,” Blinken told a press conference in the Philippines, where he is on an official visit.
Gaza is a Concentration Camp ran by israel
Gaza shares a border with more than Israel.
Agreed. and Israel is finally being seen for the apartheid state it really is. A whole generation of people will grow up hating Israelis.
well played Bibi
Yep. Reading up on the history of Hamas is interesting.
Apparently, they didn’t start targeting civilians until Israel did it first, lol. This is all pretty well documented for those who are willing to look.
I, personally, am ashamed at how little I knew about the affairs of the region until recently.
I always thought it should be kinda obvious, but the sheer racism against muslims makes people think of Hamas that way, no way their actions are justified, but almost all these radical extremist organizations are the direct consequence of years of brutal oppression from some other party
Kinda Similar to 9/11, the US is always painted as the good guys, but they were the only ones digging their own grave, again, it was terrible, but the US should have been held equally accountable, rather they actually doubled down
I will never befriend a Zionist.
They are religious nationalist scum, through and through.
How anti-semitic!
Read that little Singapore is flying air drops with its C130. But, they really need the floating docks to get enough food in there. The 200 tons the World Kichen shipped in is already in stomachs.
Or Israel could stop blocking aid trucks?
Relief trucks are being destroyed by riots.
I know you dearly wish that every problem has a single solution. But, that seldom is the case.
Pointing out those blocking aid should stop blocking it means only single solution?
That’s weird why would you lie?
British member of parliament Alicia Kearns said on X (formerly Twitter) that Israel was failing to meet its legal obligation to help aid get into the besieged enclave, citing the closure of the Kerem Shalom crossing. “I’ve just returned from the aid staging location in Egypt, thousands of trucks are sat waiting to deliver aid,” she wrote.
In response, Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy claimed that the crossing was “currently closed on Saturdays at the request of the UN because there is so much undistributed aid piling up on the other side”.
Kearns asked for evidence from Levy, pointing out that his claim was the “opposite” of what she had been told by the UK government, Egyptian government and the UN. “They are clear the Israeli Govt requested no deliveries on a Saturday,” she wrote.
Levy has yet to respond.
When there is a severe shortage of food; any food is at risk of being targeted by desperate people. Food is a tier 1 need. It doesn’t matter if the food is being delivered by land or sea. The solution to this is to provide enough food that people know they are not going to starve to death even without resorting to violence to get what food they can
Agree, but you can get far more aid via ship than trucks or airplanes. That’s why the Seabees are busy building the docks. T rucks and airplanes can only get enough calories in for a group that large to survive. Famine is at hand and the docks are the key.
More aid is irrelevant once you have enough aid. And you can get enough aid in through land. More importantly, we have the roads and trucks to get food in today. We have been using the land route to get food into Gaza for years. The problem is that the most powerful military in the region is blocking the land route.
Now, instead of applying pressure on that military, we are going to spend months building a port to go around them.
By itself that makes sense; except that military is our close ally. We are their biggest shield on the international stage, and biggest supplier of weapons and defensive systems. However, instead of trying to leverage any of that to try and solve the actual barriers to aid delivery, we are going to spend months building a water route.
If this approach ends up working, it would not be because water routes are more efficient. It would ve because the US war ships operating the dock exert enough pressure that Isreal would not dare oppose them.
Of course, even success here only gets food into Gaza. It does not address internal distribution. Ideally, we would use established networks for that. However Israel has running a largly successful campaign to dismantle the only aid network that has been operating at scale within Gaza (unrwa)
What you don’t seem to understand is that the US demanded and recieved Israel’s cooperation and future protection of those docks. Probably pissed off Bibi but so it goes.
Yeah but that stops Isreali interest in the starvation of others. Won’t be at all surprised to see any aid put at the dock turned away or blocked from being distributed
