Israel still blocking aid to Gaza as top US official says famine under way

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Source: The Guardian

A promised increase of aid into Gaza has so far failed to materialise, say aid workers, as the US’s aid chief, Samantha Power, confirmed that famine was beginning to take hold in parts of the besieged coastal strip.

Last week Joe Biden began to increase pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to enhance aid to increasingly destitute Palestinians. However, while Israel claims trucks crossing into Gaza have increased, that conflicts with UN records.

“Very little has actually changed,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, the president of Refugees International, an aid advocacy organisation. One of Netanyahu’s pledges to Biden, to open the Ashdod port north of Gaza as a portal to seaborne humanitarian aid, has led to no apparent action, according to the Israel N12 channel.

Meanwhile, Power, the administrator of USAid, said in a congressional committee session on Wednesday that expert assessments from mid-March of imminent famine in Gaza were “credible”. Power was asked: “So famine is already occurring there?” She replied: “That is – yes.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/12/first-thing-israel-still-blocking-aid-gaza-top-us-official--famine-under-way

[TeamProg]

1. "while Israel claims trucks crossing into Gaza have increased, that conflicts with UN records." Just as Jesus would

have it. LIES and STARVATION.

[AloeVera]

5. The trucks are only half full.

After inspection and removal of all manner of needed items at the Israeli inspectors' discretion, the trucks entering Gaza are only half full. The UN repacks and reloads them at distribution centres until they are full. Hence the discrepancy.

Bit disingenuous to claim truck volumes are up but fail to mention that now they are only half full.

[Pas-de-Calais]

2. Netanyahu is a forkin monster

[TeamProg]

4. And those who defend his actions!

[IronLionZion]

3. Hamas might be hiding inside the food

[Basic LA]

6. We must accept Netanyahu's middle finger.

He's the unchallenged bully in the high-school hallway that no one dares stand up to. No one! Lower your eyes, be meek, as he pummels the weaklings and demands our lunch money. There's nothing we can do but submit, apparently.

[jaxexpat]

7. Surely the voters of Israel see how their leadership has jumped the shark on unquestioned American support.......

and material aid. I mean, right?

There is an exact and obvious quantity of angels on the head of this pin. Goliath lost badly for the Philistines, and for many reasons. Like, how his support group, being a bunch of fuckheads, just ran away. How could so many Jews miss the message of this elementary Sunday school lesson? If you aren't on the righteous path, God will smite the hell out of you. Netanyahu is toast. He's the only one who doesn't know he's done, already.

[PatSeg]

8. Like anyone can trust a word that Netanyahu says

I don't think anyone is really surprised.