US confirms warning Israel over aid to Gaza

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The US state department has confirmed reports that the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and defense secretary Lloyd Austin warned Israel to take urgent steps to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza within the next 30 days or face losing access to US weapons funding.

Blinken and Austin wrote a letter to Israel on Sunday to make “clear to the government of Israel that there are changes that they need to make again to see that the level of assistance making it into Gaza comes back up from the very, very low levels that it is at today”, US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters on Tuesday.

For Israel to continue qualifying for foreign military financing, the level of aid getting into Gaza must increase to at least 350 trucks a day, Austin and Blinken said in their letter. Israel must also institute additional humanitarian pauses and provide increased security for humanitarian sites. Miller said:

We are making clear to the government of Israel that there are these changes that need to be implemented, that we give them an appropriate period of time to implement it.

Thank God.🙏

About time. However robustly they tell Israel that they must get back in line, isn’t robustly enough, imo, and should have been done months ago.

Of course but they are the only ones with the power to do anything. 350 trucks a day would be a miracle.

Another pastel pink line in the sand. How heroic of them.

Listening to Jeremy Bowen on BBC last night he said the 30 days covers the Presidential election so Israel may draw things out waiting to see what happens there before really doing anything about this

Yeah, that's what I thought (re BBC's comment) - the US doesn't want worse publicity before the election. Their concern for the humans in Palestine has not changed.

Aid must get it.

A lot more information in this article:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e9q4nylwjo

The US are also trying to prevent Israel from colonising more land, apparently they want to build on the current UN building and commit more atrocities.