Catastrophic hunger - 40% of Gaza's population at risk of famine

Why is Egypt still not opening her borders?? They could easily taken the people of Gaza into their massive country but best thing is to give them a temp home on the border and they can go back when Hamas is finished which should not be too long now

https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-starving-children-and-adults-dying-the-size-of-a-skeleton-says-world-food-programme-boss-13137414

I know @Efacsen you posted about it. Can’t find the comment tho

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz96d3dn9jro

Yet another Gaza bound aid truck was attacked in the WB yesterday - thankfully the IDF were able to rescue the driver who was being beaten by the settlers but not the aid or vehicle which was set on fire

No arrests

COGAT_IDF claim 356 trucks into Gaza yesterday!

This is good for the recipients and good timing for Israel who are presenting their defence today at the ICJ - part of which is the amount of humanitarian aid they are allowing into Gaza

It was allegedly delivered via Kerem Shalom and Erez

It makes the total amount since the closure of Rafah around 460 trucks - agreed need is still 500/day so a fraction of what is required - about ?10%

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That looks like a really great article. I haven't time to read it all now but it's really good to see Israeli terrorism being called what it is. For far too long people have minimised what can only be described as acts of terror by Israelis, I saw someone the other day on here describe the situation in the West Bank as 'unfortunate'. I don't know why but Jewish extremism and terrorism seems to be a really taboo topic and we are all just supposed to pretend like it doesn't exist.

@TextureSeeker I regret to tell you that you are factually incorrect.

Only Palestinians are shot for throwing stones.

Settlers enjoy impunity.

Today’s NY Times has a very detailed report by top news verification journalists, Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzeti ( the latter a Pulitzer Prize winner). Of interest, Bergman is Israeli himself and the parents were Holocaust survivors. The investigation took a year and it’s pretty damning.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

I thought that people who throw stones are terrorists. Don't the IDF usually shoot stone throwers or at the very least put them in detention and torture them? It's almost like there is a two tier system in operation there....

The US pier was attached to the gazan shore overnight south east of gaza city and will be operational in 'coming days'

Major issues re distributing the aid remain unresolved particularly that the UN have no fuel for their trucks to take it to the starving people

So the trucks were on a military road out of bounds to civilians with an IDF escort but were still destroyed by 400 stone-throwing settlers whilst the army looked on - they are usually very good at dealing with this sort of scenario

What made them do nothing? We've already seen how they deal with Palestinians who they believe to be threatening aid convoys

More aid destroyed by Israelis with the permission of IDF

https://twitter.com/AlonLeeGreen/status/1791014603935117378

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-16/ty-article/.premium/israeli-settlers-wound-palestinian-truck-driver-falsely-assuming-he-was-hauling-gaza-aid/0000018f-8061-d7f9-a5ff-b577b8600000

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/palestinian-lorry-drivers-israeli-settlers-attack-gaza-aid-convoy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/un-says-it-has-no-more-food-or-tents-for-nearly-2m-people-in-gaza

Aid trucks entering Gaza on Sunday ‘not nearly enough’: US

The US State Department says the 50 aid trucks that entered the besieged coastal enclave on Sunday are “not nearly enough” and it believes more can be done to help US citizens leave the Strip.

“We’ve seen 50 trucks enter Gaza on May 12. This is not nearly enough,” department spokesman Vedant Patel said of humanitarian aid flows.

A settler filming how his family is destroying aid. The ones he’s filming are kids younger than 10yo

https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1790357541001597232?s=19

Pretty sure it's not Israelis to destroy? A lot of the aid is coming from aid organisations many of which have people donating to them. Hope they start demanding compensation for all the goodd that are being destroyed

I saw this posted today by an Israeli person and I thought it was an interesting perspective.

I'm not saying that I agree or disagree because I've never been to Israel so I don't know, I'm just saying I saw it today and found it interesting and relevant to your post.

It was an Instagram story so I'm screenshotting it because it'll disappear otherwise.

Read earlier that Israeli police were there and ---- did nothing

No arrests

No stopping the pillage

This is criminal vandalism destroying produce like this. I cannot understand what these protestors want to achieve, do they not think the Palestinians have suffered enough and already paid a huge price in this conflict yet they still want to inflict more pain. It is bordering on psychotic

US-built floating pier for Gaza could start operating this week: Report

The Associated Press news agency is reporting that a floating pier built by the US military to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza could be operational in the coming days.

The US plan envisions aid ships travelling from Cyprus to a platform built off the coast of Gaza, where the cargo will be offloaded onto trucks. Smaller US Army vehicles will then transport the aid trucks to a pier built onshore. From there, third-party contractors will drive the trucks onto the beach and hand over the aid to humanitarian agencies.

The construction of the offshore floating platform was completed earlier this month.
Sabrina Singh, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon, said the pier and causeway – which have been assembled at the Israeli port of Ashdod – are “just waiting to be affixed to the coastline of Gaza”.

An anonymous US official told AP that the US army expects to finish anchoring the causeway onto the beach in Gaza by Wednesday or Thursday.

I have friends who have been displaced yet again from Rafah to central Gaza, and food and water are both very scarce there (as well as experiencing constant shelling).

It is getting really difficult to work out if any aid is getting in.
The internet is overwhelmed with pictures like this of repeated raids on aid trucks by Israeli settler terrorists.

x.com/shaykhsulaiman/status/1790037400351129885?s=46

Here is another video. Horrible people. And they won't suffer a single consequence.

It's extraordinary behaviour isn't it @lionlass particularly as the convoy from Jordan was heading for the Erez crossing [only opened yesterday] and both Rafah and Kerem Shalom are closed/too dangerous to use