If we’re completely honest, the UN is just the Security Council P5 members. Nothing matters unless all five of those countries agree. Right now, it’s 3 v 2 on the P5 and one of the two is becoming a vassal to the other.
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The UN says Hamas is not a terrorist group. Well, there goes their credibility.
Yeah no kidding. Not that the’ve had much credibility on this issue. Hamas is the governing body of Palestinian/Gaza. Palestinians make up the entirety of the fighting force. Palestinians have been terrorizing Israel for decades. Hamas = Palestine. Hamas = Terrorist.
And then there is this. A UN body!…… “The United States is extremely troubled by the allegations that twelve UNRWA employees may have been involved in the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement, referring to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a U.N. body dedicated to serving Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.” More terrorists hiding behind civilians and refugees…..a UN body!
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The UN says Hamas is not a terrorist group. Well, there goes their credibility.
Yeah no kidding. Not that the’ve had much credibility on this issue. Hamas is the governing body of Palestinian/Gaza. Palestinians make up the entirety of the fighting force. Palestinians have been terrorizing Israel for decades. Hamas = Palestine. Hamas = Terrorist.
And then there is this. A UN body!…… “The United States is extremely troubled by the allegations that twelve UNRWA employees may have been involved in the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement, referring to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a U.N. body dedicated to serving Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip.” More terrorists hiding behind civilians and refugees…..a UN body!
Make Gaza Great Again. End Hamas! End the two-state solution. Gaza is a part of Israel and should be governed by Israel. Israel is a sovereign Nation and should be able to govern its people and its border. The United States cannot govern our own border we have no right and neither does any other country have a right to tell Israel how to govern its country. The two-state solution has caused this conflict and Israel needs to end it.
Romans 10:9 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
I never said Genocide. Gaza is part of Israel and Israeli government should be the governing force behind Gaza once this war is over. The two-state solution is wrong and caused this conflict.
Romans 10:9 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
Make Gaza Great Again. End Hamas! End the two-state solution. Gaza is a part of Israel and should be governed by Israel. Israel is a sovereign Nation and should be able to govern its people and its border. The United States cannot govern our own border we have no right and neither does any other country have a right to tell Israel how to govern its country. The two-state solution has caused this conflict and Israel needs to end it.
Well there is part of the rub, Israel is a sovereign nation, but it is not really a democratic nation, as Palestinians are not treated the same as Jewish. If it were a democratic nation, the Jewish would be in the minority. Hence, the political shenanigans that ultimately result in Palestinians being angry at Israel for not being democratic. Gaza is half state or something like that. It is the golden rule, those who have the gold, rule.
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Not genocide…. ….Genocide is what has been happening to Jews for a thousands years or more. Big difference.
Then please explain what D of the D meant? And in case you missed it, "Israel" has not endured genocide and as of now has slaughtered over 30k Palestinian civilians. And that's a huge part of the problem here. Somehow society has convinced you that the actions of Netanyahu are somehow the actions of the Jewish people. They are not. That somehow Netanyahu is the face of past atrocities against the Jewish people. He is not. He is a crooked politician who is currently under indictment just like trump.
Do you think when trump separated families it represented the desires of even half of the American people? Don't confuse politicians or a political party with the nation's population. But then you do the same thing by acting like all Palestinians are Hamas so I guess it should be expected.
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Palestinian deaths in Gaza pass 30,000 as witnesses say Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops fired on a large crowd of Palestinians racing to pull food off an aid convoy in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed, bringing the death toll since the start of the Israel-Hamas war to more than 30,000, according to health officials.
Israeli officials acknowledged that troops opened fire, saying they did so after the crowd approached in a threatening way. The officials insisted on anonymity to give details about what happened, after the military said in a statement that “dozens were killed and injured from pushing, trampling and being run over by the trucks.”
U.S. President Joe Biden said the United States was still trying to determine what happened in Gaza City. When asked if the loss of life would complicate efforts broker a cease-fire, he said, “I know it will.”
Gaza City and the surrounding areas in the enclave’s north were the first targets of Israel’s air, sea and ground offensive, launched in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
While many Palestinians fled the Israeli invasion in the north, a few hundred thousand are believed to remain in the area, which has suffered widespread devastation and has been largely isolated during the conflict. Trucks carrying food reached northern Gaza this week, the first major aid delivery to the area in a month, officials said Wednesday.
Aid groups say it has become nearly impossible to deliver humanitarian assistance in most of Gaza because of the difficulty of coordinating with the Israeli military, ongoing hostilities and the breakdown of public order, with crowds of desperate people overwhelming aid convoys. The U.N. says a quarter of Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians face starvation; around 80% have fled their homes.
Kamel Abu Nahel, who was being treated for a gunshot wound at Shifa Hospital, said he and others went to the distribution point in the middle of the night because they heard there would be a delivery of food. “We’ve been eating animal feed for two months,” he said.
He said Israeli troops opened fire on the crowd as people pulled boxes of flour and canned goods off the trucks, causing them to scatter, with some hiding under cars. After the shooting stopped, people went back to the trucks, and the soldiers opened fire again. He was shot in the leg and fell over, and then a truck ran over his leg as it sped off, he said.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan accused Israel of targeting civilians in the incident. In separate statements, they called for increased safe passages for humanitarian aid and for the international community to take decisive action to pressure Israel to abide by international law and to reach an agreement for an immediate cease-fire.
Alaa Abu Daiya, a witness to the violence, said Israeli troops opened fire and also that a tank fired a shell.
Medics arriving at the scene on Thursday found “dozens or hundreds” lying on the ground, according to Fares Afana, the head of the ambulance service at Kamal Adwan Hospital. He said there were not enough ambulances to collect all the dead and wounded and that some were being brought to hospitals in donkey carts.
Another man in the crowd — who gave only his first name, Ahmad, as he was being treated at a hospital for gunshot wounds to the arm and leg — said he waited for two hours before someone with a horse-pulled cart had room to take him to Shifa.
Dr. Mohammed Salha, the acting director of the Al-Awda Hospital, said the facility received 161 wounded patients, most of whom appeared to have been shot. He said the hospital can perform only the most essential surgeries because it is running out of fuel to power emergency generators.
In addition to at least 112 people killed, around 760 were wounded, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said. The Health Ministry described it as a “massacre.”
Separately, the Health Ministry said the Palestinian death toll from the war has climbed to 30,035, with another 70,457 wounded. It does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its figures but says women and children make up around two-thirds of those killed.
The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government in Gaza, maintains detailed records of casualties. Its counts from previous wars have largely matched those of the U.N., independent experts and even Israel’s own tallies.
The Hamas attack into southern Israel that ignited the war killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and the militants seized around 250 hostages. Hamas and other militants are still holding around 100 hostages and the remains of about 30 more, after releasing most of the other captives during a November cease-fire.
Violence has also surged across the West Bank since Oct. 7. An attacker shot and killed two Israelis at a gas station in the settlement of Eli on Thursday, according to the Israeli military. The attacker was killed, the military said.
The increasing alarm over hunger across Gaza has fueled international calls for another cease-fire, and the U.S., Egypt and Qatar are working to secure a deal between Israel and Hamas for a pause in fighting and the release of some of the hostages.
Mediators hope to reach an agreement before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan starts around March 10. But so far, Israel and Hamas have remained far apart in public on their demands.
In a statement condemning Thursday’s attack, Hamas said it would not allow the negotiations “to be a cover for the enemy to continue its crimes.”
Meanwhile, U.N. officials have warned of further mass casualties if Israel follows through on vows to attack the southernmost city of Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has taken refuge. They also say a Rafah offensive could decimate what remains of aid operations.
Hundreds of thousands Palestinians are believed to remain in northern Gaza despite Israeli orders to evacuate the area in October, and many have been reduced to eating animal fodder to survive. The U.N. says 1 in 6 children under 2 in the north suffer from acute malnutrition and wasting.
COGAT, the Israeli military body in charge of Palestinian civilian affairs, said around 50 aid trucks entered northern Gaza this week. It was unclear who delivered the aid. Some countries have meanwhile resorted to airdrops in recent days.
The World Food Program said earlier this month that it was pausing deliveries to the north because of the growing chaos, after desperate Palestinians emptied a convoy while it was en route.
Since launching its assault on Gaza following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, Israel has barred entry of food, water, medicine and other supplies except for a trickle of aid entering the south from Egypt at the Rafah crossing and Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing. Despite international calls to allow in more aid, the number of supply trucks is far less than the 500 that came in daily before the war.
COGAT said Wednesday that Israel does not impose limits on the amount of aid entering. Israel has blamed U.N. agencies for the bottleneck, saying hundreds of trucks are waiting on the Palestinian side of Kerem Shalom for aid workers to collect them.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Wednesday countered by saying large trucks entering Gaza have to be unloaded and reloaded onto smaller ones. But there aren’t enough of them, and there’s a lack of security to distribute aid in Gaza.
Hamas-run police in Gaza stopped protecting convoys after Israeli strikes on them near the crossing.
The U.S. military has conducted food drops in Gaza authorized by President Joe Biden, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the operation.
The military is reported to have used three C-130 cargo planes from U.S. Air Forces Central Command to drop 66 parachute-strapped bundles containing about 38,000 meals over Gaza around 8 a.m. ET.
The air drop was expected to be the first of many the military planned to conduct. It came just days after many Palestinians were killed after trying to pull goods from an aid convoy.
Number of children dying of dehydration, malnutrition in Gaza 'will skyrocket' without cease-fire: UNICEF
The situation is "deteriorating every hour" the UNICEF spokesman said.
The number of children in Gaza dying from dehydration and malnutrition "will skyrocket" if there is not a cease-fire, according to UNICEF spokesman James Elder.
Elder called the deaths of children from dehydration and malnutrition, which UNICEF said it is now witnessing inside Gaza, "entirely predictable," "man-made" and "preventable."
He described the levels of malnutrition among young children in the south of Gaza as "unacceptable and dangerous."
However, he said the levels of malnutrition and dehydration among children in the north of Gaza are "roughly three times higher" than in the south, because of the lower levels of humanitarian assistance that are reaching the northern parts of the strip.
UNICEF said its fear is that we will now start to see "a spiraling amount of deaths" among children, linked to malnutrition.
"Normally malnutrition is an underlying cause of death. A child will be killed by a disease. When we talk of hearing of children dying of dehydration, this is a great fear because this can lead to huge numbers of children dying very quickly," Elder told ABC News in an interview from Geneva.
Elder said children are now dying in Gaza because they are dehydrating because doctors are unable to get food into their bodies.
He described the level of suffering a child would go through in this scenario and called it "about as dark as it can get for a population."
The situation is "deteriorating every hour" the UNICEF spokesman said.
The fact that "world-class medical care" is "literally around the corner" but is inaccessible for these sick children is "darkly unique," he said.
Elder believes it is not too late to avert a humanitarian catastrophe but said "we are getting close to some kind of point of no return."
"If there was a cease-fire today, we would have an absolute humanitarian crisis at the highest scale that the UN would determine," Elder said.
He called the humanitarian picture "as bad as it's ever been" in Gaza.
In the Gaza Strip, at least 30,534 people have been killed and more than 71,000 others have been wounded by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, according to Gaza's Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health.
In Israel, at least 1,200 people have been killed and 6,900 others have been injured by Hamas and other Palestinian militants since Oct. 7, according to the Israeli officials.
Newborns die of hunger and mothers struggle to feed their children as Israel’s siege condemns Gazans to starvation
Anwar Abdul Nabi perches on the edge of a bed at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. Her eyes are sunken with grief.
The young mother tenderly holds the fingers of her daughter, Mila. Just minutes ago, the 3-year-old girl died of starvation.
“My daughter was taken into to God’s mercy, because of the lack of calcium, potassium and oxygen,” Nabi told CNN on Monday, as she cried into the arms of an elderly relative. “Suddenly, everything dropped, because she was not eating anything with iron, or eggs. She used to eat eggs every day before the war. Now nothing. She passed away.”
As Israel’s severe restrictions on aid entering the Gaza Strip drain essential supplies, displaced Palestinians told CNN they are struggling to feed their children. Starving mothers are unable to produce enough milk to breastfeed their babies, doctors say. Parents arrive at overwhelmed health facilities begging for infant formula. In northern Gaza, people rush to grab aid from infrequent humanitarian drops. Health workers say they cannot offer life-saving treatment to malnourished Gazans because Israel’s bombardment and siege has crushed the medical system.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said Tuesday that since the beginning of the war, 364 health workers had been killed; 269 medical staff arrested; 155 health facilities “destroyed,” and 155 ambulances “targeted.” CNN cannot independently confirm the numbers due to the lack of international media access to Gaza.
Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza after the militant group Hamas killed at least 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 250 others in southern Israel on October 7.
Since then, Israel’s attacks on Gaza have killed at least 30,717 Palestinians and wounded another 72,156 people, according to the Ministry of Health in the enclave, while its siege has drastically diminished vital supplies and left the enclave’s population of some 2.2 million people exposed to high levels of acute food insecurity or worse, according to the Integrated Food Security and Nutrition Phase Classification (IPC), which assesses global food insecurity and malnutrition.
At least 20 Palestinians have starved to death in Gaza, Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, said on Wednesday. The youngest baby who died of starvation in the enclave was one day old, according to Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital. The true number could be even higher, as limited access to northern Gaza has hindered the ability of aid agencies to fully assess the situation there. UN experts accused Israel of “intentionally starving” Palestinians in Gaza. Israel insists there is “no limit” on the amount of aid that can enter Gaza, but its inspection regime on aid trucks has meant that only a tiny fraction of the amount of food and other supplies that used to enter Gaza daily before the war is getting in now. Children, mothers at risk
One-year-old Watin, in northern Gaza, has grown tired and weak from dehydration. Instead of drinking baby formula, she is surviving on one to two dates a day.
“She is only taking one meal,” said her father, Ikhlas Shehadeh, who struggles to scavenge enough food to feed his baby girl. “She spent a long time without any milk. This child is suffering from the inability to move,” he told CNN on Tuesday. “We do not know what to do.”
The babies of thousands of women “who are due to give birth in the next month in the Gaza Strip are at risk of dying,” the UNICEF State of Palestine Humanitarian Situation report said on Tuesday. At least 5,500 pregnant women “do not have access to prenatal or postnatal check-ups because of bombings and need to flee for safety,” the report said.
“Anxiety is also leading to premature births,” the report added, citing the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF.) The report also said over 90% of children “aged 6-23 months and pregnant, breastfeeding women face severe food poverty with access to two or fewer food groups per day.”
Food shortages are reportedly the worst in northern Gaza, where Israel concentrated its military offensive in the early days of the war. Child malnutrition in the region is about three times higher than in southern Gaza, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Screenings at health facilities there have previously found at least one in six children under the age of two are acutely malnourished, said Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the territory. He warned those figures are “likely to be greater today.” Pregnant and breastfeeding women also face “grave threats to their health” caused by malnutrition, the Global Nutrition Cluster, an alliance of NGOs, reported in February.
Dr. Muhammad Salha, acting director of Al-Awda Hospital, in northern Gaza, told CNN medical workers are treating cases of dehydration, gastroenteritis, and hepatitis among women and children.
“There are babies who died in their mothers’ wombs, and surgeries were performed to remove the dead fetuses,” he said on Monday. “Mothers are not eating because of the conditions we are living in, and this affects the infants … There are causes of many children suffering from dehydration and malnutrition, leading to death.”
Israel’s bombardment has forcibly displaced at least 1.7 million Palestinians, according to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Many of those who fled the fighting are crammed into overwhelmed shelters without basic sanitation, leading to the spread of infections. Malnourished children, especially those with severe malnutrition, are at greater risk of dying from illnesses like diarrhea and pneumonia, according to the World Health Organization.
Another doctor in northern Gaza, Ahmad Salem, said patients in intensive care and neonatal units were dying from malnutrition and a lack of oxygen, which are difficult to administer amid fuel shortages. “We suffer from starvation of mothers,” the medical worker in the Kamal Adwan Hospital told CNN. “We cannot find an alternative to mother’s milk, which leads to the death of those children.” ‘We have become like dogs’
Footage obtained by CNN shows scores of desperate civilians clambering over each other to grab ration packs from aid drops in northern Gaza.
On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt sent 42 tons of medical supplies and food via airplanes in the region, the Emirati Ministry of Defense said. The US military said it had, alongside the Royal Jordanian Air Force, parachuted more than 36,800 meals into northern Gaza that day.
But human rights groups criticized the drops as inefficient and a degrading way of getting aid to Gazans, urging Israeli authorities to lift controls on land crossings into the enclave. Melanie Ward, the CEO of the UK-based NGO, Medical Aid for Palestinians, urged Israel to “immediately open all crossings into Gaza for aid workers to assist those in need.”
“Only safe and unfettered access for aid and aid workers, the lifting of the siege, and an immediate ceasefire can end starvation in Gaza,” she said in a statement on Saturday.
Even when aid does make it into the strip, collecting it can be dangerous. Israeli forces opened fire on people waiting for aid on Monday in northern Gaza, eyewitnesses told CNN, in an incident that took place shortly before midnight at the Kuwait Roundabout on Rasheed Street in Gaza City. CNN has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment.
Last Thursday, at least 118 people were killed while trying to access food aid in Gaza City in one of the worst single tragedies of the war so far. Palestinian health officials said Israeli troops had used live fire as hungry and desperate Palestinian civilians were gathering around food trucks, with Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations, referring to the incident as an “outrageous massacre.” The Israeli military said it first opened fire with warning shots for crowd control, before firing on “looters” who came toward them. Most of the dead were killed by ramming as aid truck drivers tried to escape the gunfire and chaos, eyewitnesses and the IDF both said. CNN is unable to independently confirm the figures.
Faraj Abu Naji, whose sister gave birth to twin girls a week ago, managed to obtain just three cartons of milk for his newborn nieces in an aid drop in northern Gaza. He told CNN that he injured his foot while trying to buy flour along Al-Rashid Street.
“We thank God that there is humanitarian aid being dropped from Jordanian and Emirati planes,” he said on Tuesday. “I try as much as possible to obtain milk from the planes that drop aid so that we can provide milk for my nieces for as long as possible.
“Planes are dropping aid on northern Gaza, and we have become like dogs, running after a bone.”
WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden will announce in his State of the Union speech on Thursday that the U.S. military will construct a temporary port on Gaza's Mediterranean coast to receive humanitarian aid by sea, senior administration officials said.
Planning for the operation, initially based on the island of Cyprus, does not envisage the deployment of U.S. military personnel in Gaza, the officials told a news briefing.
The officials also said that Hamas is delaying a new deal with Israel on a six-week ceasefire and the release of hostages because the Islamists who rule Gaza have not agreed to free sick and elderly captives. The deal "is on the table now and has been for more than the past week," said an official, referring to stalled negotiations in Egypt, adding that the temporary ceasefire is needed "to bring immediate relief to the people of Gaza."
Hamas blamed the stalemate on Israel's rejection of its demands to end its offensive and withdraw its forces. Biden's decision to order the construction of the temporary port comes amid U.N. warnings of widespread famine among the enclave's 2.3 million Palestinians after nearly five months of fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas.
A staunch supporter of Israel, Biden faces rising political pressure to end the Israeli offensive, including a protest movement for Democratic voters to withhold their support for the president in his party primaries for November's general election.
Large swaths of Gaza have been destroyed and most of the population displaced by intense Israeli bombardments and fighting ignited by Hamas's Oct. 7 onslaught into Israel. Israel says Hamas' incursion claimed 1,200 lives and saw the Islamists abduct 253 hostages. Gaza health officials say the number of people killed in the subsequent offensive launched by Israel has surpassed 30,800.
A PORT IN GAZA
Biden will tell Congress he is ordering the U.S. military "to undertake an emergency mission to establish a port in Gaza, working with like-minded countries and humanitarian partners," one official said.
The facility would accommodate large ships carrying food, water, medical supplies and temporary shelters.
Washington will work with European and regional partners and allies to build an international coalition of countries that would contribute capabilities and funds, the officials said.
An Israeli official said Israel “fully supports the deployment of a temporary dock” on Gaza’s coast and the operation “will be carried out with full coordination between the two parties.”
While Israel is increasing the number of aid-bearing trucks allowed into the besieged enclave and the United States and other countries have been airdropping supplies, the amounts of assistance getting in are insufficient, the official said.
"We're not waiting for the Israelis" to allow in more aid, the official continued. "This is a moment for American leadership."
The temporary port would increase humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in the war-battered enclave by "hundreds of additional truckloads" per day, the official said, adding that the United States would coordinate security with Israel.
It also would work with the U.N. and humanitarian aid organizations that "understand the distribution of assistance within Gaza," the official said.
The official said the operation would "take a number of weeks to plan and execute" and that the U.S. forces required for it are in the region or would soon begin moving there.
The U.S. operation would build on a Cypriot government initiative, which calls for collecting humanitarian aid in the island's port city of Larnaca, 210 nautical miles from Gaza, the officials said. That would permit Israeli officials to screen shipments before they are transported to Gaza.
While the temporary port in Gaza would initially be a military-run operation, Washington envisions it becoming a commercially run facility, the official said.
A bullseye for who? There have been no attacks by Hamas on the few aid trucks Israel does permit going into Gaza. I don't see any basis for what you are suggesting. The only one I think may take issue with it could be Israel. They seem to think starvation is a sound military tactic.
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Israel will be inspecting every shipment. They should deliver the shipments in my opinion not the US. But you seem to want to vilify me for their actions, so I’ll just back out of here.
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Israel has shown how they deliver humanitarian aid when it's left up to them. A fraction of what is needed which has led to mass shortages in both food and medical supplies. That's what has gotten this crisis to where it is now. They can no longer be trusted to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. If they could we wouldn't have to be building a temporary port to keep those people fed and with medical supplies. I don't believe that Israel will have the control over inspections like you think they will. That's the same tactic they've been sing to slow the aid down now.
And BTW- I said nothing to vilify you in my previous post. I simply asked you who you were referring to when you said this port would "be a bullseye". Which is the one thing you didn't address in your response.
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The body count itself says the response to the events of Oct. 7th were completely unhinged.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
The body count itself says the response to the events of Oct. 7th were completely unhinged.
I actually expected something this severe. Not saying that it's not unhinged, just that it was the perfect storm, given everything going on with Netanyahu.
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The body count itself says the response to the events of Oct. 7th were completely unhinged.
I actually expected something this severe. Not saying that it's not unhinged, just that it was the perfect storm, given everything going on with Netanyahu.
Agree - Netanyahu having failed to protect his citizens was always going to look for retribution and go overboard with any response. I expected the same - but I didn't expect that in March children in Gaza would still be dying and especially not from malnutition because Isreal is commiting war crimes whether anyone wants to admit it or not.
Aid ship for Gaza expected to depart Cyprus this weekend
LARNACA, Cyprus, March 9 (Reuters) - A ship laden with relief supplies for Gaza was preparing to depart Cyprus on Saturday as part of efforts to aid a population on the brink of famine. The European Commission has said a maritime aid corridor between Cyprus and Gaza could start operating as early as this weekend in a pilot project run by an international charity and financed by the UAE.
The Open Arms, a vessel owned by a Spanish NGO and more accustomed to rescuing migrants at sea, was expected to be deployed in the first mission. It was still at the port of Larnaca in Cyprus on Saturday afternoon, live images from Reuters TV showed, and authorities could not give a precise departure time.
Cyprus lies about 210 miles north-west of Gaza, or about 15 hours sailing time.
Separately, the United States has said it plans to build a temporary jetty to bring aid into Gaza, which has no port infrastructure. It too plans to initially use Cyprus, which is offering a process for screening cargoes which will include Israel officials, removing the need for security checks in Gaza.
Negotiations on a possible ceasefire in Israel's war against Hamas remain deadlocked.
Pallets of rice, flour and protein were being loaded in Larnaca on Saturday in an operation organised by the World Central Kitchen (WCK) charity and mostly funded by the UAE . Aid agencies have warned of a looming famine five months into Israel's campaign against Hamas. Most of Gaza's 2.3 million inhabitants are now internally displaced, with severe bottlenecks in aid deliveries at land border checkpoints.
A sea corridor from Cyprus will supplement attempts to boost aid supplies, which have included airdrops of food.
The charity WCK has partnered with Spain's Proactiva Open Arms and is sourcing the food.
"WCK and partners agree more than one ship will be needed and are working towards a constant flow of aid," it said in a statement, adding that another 500 tonnes of aid was ready to follow the initial shipment.
A spokesperson for WCK said the intention was to sail to Gaza, where WCK and partners were building a jetty. It was not related to the U.S. jetty project.
Gaza has been under an Israeli navy blockade since 2007, when Hamas took control of the enclave. There have been few direct sea arrivals since then. Larnaca port was used by pro-Palestinian activists, who used small sail boats to get into Gaza harbour in 2008.
Chef José Andrés started World Central Kitchen. It feeds starving people all over the globe no matter where they exist. Where people are hungry, they are there.
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‘Famine is imminent’ in northern Gaza with 70 percent of people experiencing catastrophic hunger, UN says
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.N. food agency said Monday that “famine is imminent” in northern Gaza, where 70% of the remaining population is experiencing catastrophic hunger, and that a further escalation of the war could push around half of Gaza’s total population to the brink of starvation.
The alarming report came as Israel faces mounting pressure from even its closest allies to streamline the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip and open more crossings. The European Union’s top diplomat said the impending famine was “entirely man-made” as “starvation is used as a weapon of war.”
Israeli forces meanwhile launched another raid on the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital early Monday, saying Hamas militants had regrouped there and had fired on them from inside the compound, where Palestinian officials say tens of thousands of people have been sheltering.
The military said it killed a Hamas commander who was armed and hiding inside the medical center, and that one of its own soldiers was killed in the operation.
The army last raided Shifa Hospital in November after claiming that Hamas maintained an elaborate command center within and beneath the facility. The military revealed a tunnel leading to some underground rooms, as well as weapons it said were found inside the hospital. But the evidence fell short of the earlier claims, and critics accused the army of recklessly endangering the lives of civilians. Rafah offensive could push half of Gaza to starvation
The World Food Program on Monday released the latest findings of its Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, an international process for estimating the scale of hunger crises.
It says virtually everyone in Gaza is struggling to get enough food, and that around 677,000 people — nearly a third of the population of 2.3 million — are experiencing the highest level of catastrophic hunger. That includes around 210,000 people in the north.
It warned that if Israel broadens its offensive to the packed southern city of Rafah, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly vowed, the fighting could drive over a million people — half of Gaza’s population — into catastrophic hunger.
“This is the largest number of people facing imminent famine in the world today, and it has only taken five months to occur,” said Matthew Hollingworth, the acting World Food Program country director for the Palestinian territories.
“It’s still possible to turn this around but there has to be a cease-fire and there has to be massive amounts of food aid to flow consistently, and people need to have access to clean water and health care,” he said.
Northern Gaza, including Gaza City, was the first target of the invasion and entire neighborhoods have been obliterated. It is now the epicenter of Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe, with many residents reduced to eating animal feed. At least 20 people, mostly children, have died from malnutrition and dehydration in the north, the Health Ministry said earlier this month.
Airdrops by the U.S. and other nations continue, while deliveries on a new sea route have begun, but aid groups say it’s essential that Israel open up more land routes and ease restrictions. The WFP report said airdrops account for a “negligible share” of aid compared with what is brought in on trucks.
Israeli authorities say they place no limits on the entry of aid and accuse U.N. bodies of failing to distribute it in a timely manner. Aid groups say distribution is impossible in much of Gaza because of ongoing hostilities, the difficulty of coordinating with the military and the breakdown of law and order.
Alex de Waal, the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University and an expert on global famines, said Israel has had “ample warning” that if it continued to launch massive operations that destroy key infrastructure, displace large numbers of people and obstruct aid operations, the results would be catastrophic.
“In failing to change course, it is culpable for these deaths,” he said.
Ahead of the report’s release, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said it was up to Israel to facilitate more aid.
“Israel has to do it. It is not a question of logistics. It is not because the United Nations has not provided enough support,” he said. “Trucks are stopped. People are dying, while the land crossings are artificially closed.” ‘We’re trapped inside’
The heavy fighting around Shifa Hospital, in the heart of Gaza City, meanwhile pointed to the continuing presence of Palestinian militants in northern Gaza despite the harsh conditions there.
People sheltering in the hospital said Israeli forces backed by tanks and artillery had surrounded the medical complex and that snipers were shooting at people inside. They said the army raided a number of buildings and detained dozens of people.
“We’re trapped inside,” said Abdel-Hady Sayed, who has been sheltering in the medical facility for over three months. “They fire at anything moving. … Doctors and ambulances can’t move.”
Gaza’s Health Ministry said around 30,000 people are sheltering at the hospital, including patients, medical staff and people who have fled their homes seeking safety. The war has displaced around 80% of Gaza’s population.
Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the chief Israeli military spokesperson, said the army launched a “high-precision operation” in parts of the medical complex. He said senior Hamas militants had regrouped there and were directing attacks from inside.
The army later said it had killed Faiq Mabhouh, identifying him as a senior member of Hamas’ internal security apparatus. It said Mabhouh was armed and hiding inside the compound, and that “numerous” weapons were found in an adjacent room. The military said its forces detained around 80 people.
Hagari said the patients and medical staff could remain in the medical complex and that a safe passage was available for civilians who wanted to leave.
Israel accuses Hamas of using hospitals and other civilian facilities to shield its fighters, and the Israeli military has raided several hospitals since the start of the war, which was triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack into southern Israel.
The Gaza Health Ministry said Monday that at least 31,726 Palestinians have been killed in the war, including 81 in the past 24 hours. The ministry doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count, but says women and children make up two-thirds of the dead.
Palestinian militants killed some 1,200 people in the surprise attack out of Gaza that triggered the war, and took another 250 people hostage. Hamas is still believed to be holding about 100 captives, as well as the remains of 30 others, after most of the rest were freed during a cease-fire last year in exchange for the release of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
The United States, Qatar and Egypt have spent weeks trying to broker another cease-fire and hostage release, but the gulf between the two sides remains wide, with Hamas demanding guarantees for an end to the war and Israel vowing to continue the offensive until it destroys the militant group.
When you have one side in control of the border and the flow of humanitarian aid refusing to allow enough food and medical supplies in to avoid famine and starvation of the civilian population, I consider the innocents as being targeted by it and not simply caught up in it.
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I do too. And their geographic location doesn't matter to me. The actions of their government doesn't matter to me. But for some reason, time and time again people conflate these things as all being the same. It's the craziness we see now. They try to claim that if you do not support the actions of Netanyahu you must hate Israel, not support the Jewish people or be antisemitic. And nothing could be further from the truth.
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You two should just wear the red pens that the movie stars were wearing to the Oscars that stand for dead Israeli soldiers. You are showing support for terrorist organizations over a US ally and Sovreign nation defending itself.
Romans 10:9 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
You two should just wear the red pens that the movie stars were wearing to the Oscars that stand for dead Israeli soldiers. You are showing support for terrorist organizations over a US ally and Sovreign nation defending itself.
Defending yourself does not include starving the civilians of Gaza and deny them medical supplies which in many cases aid those you have injured in the war. Defending yourself does not include choosing to use 2000lb. dumb bombs that kill everyone withing 1000 feet in all directions which has mainly been civilians.
I have always supported Israel defending itself. I have always supported the Israeli people. I have always supported that Israel wipe out Hamas. What I don't do is give Netanyahu a free pass on everything he does. Just remember the next time you don't support a decision Biden makes that you are not supporting America. Just remember the rules you yourself are setting for how this all works.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
You two should just wear the red pens that the movie stars were wearing to the Oscars that stand for dead Israeli soldiers. You are showing support for terrorist organizations over a US ally and Sovreign nation defending itself.
Or we could just listen to Donnie’s son in law and move everyone out of Gaza, then go in and clean it up.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson
Gaza food aid from Cyprus reaches starving people in north of enclave, says charity
A US-based charity has confirmed that a consignment of almost 200 tons of food aid has reached starving people in northern Gaza today, a week after being despatched by sea from Cyprus.
World Central Kitchen (WCK), working with the UAE and Spanish charity Open Arms, sent the food via the 200-mile (322-km) sea route from Larnaca to a makeshift jetty off Gaza. The consignment arrived on Friday. A convoy of eight trucks belonging to the World Food Programme (WFP) then ferried the aid — the equivalent of half a million meals — to its final destination today.
A UN-backed report said on Monday that famine was “imminent” in the northern Gaza Strip, where some 300,000 people are trapped by fighting. Across the whole Gaza Strip, the number of people facing “catastrophic hunger” has risen to 1.1 million, half the population.
A second vessel is now moored at Larnaca with 240 tons of food on board, waiting to travel pending weather conditions, noted WCK and Cypriot government officials. “WCK is ready to send tonnes of food weekly to Gaza with support from the international community,” said the charity.
Aid agencies say the food that can be delivered by sea to Gaza, though welcome, is completely inadequate for the scale of people’s needs and they have urged Israel to allow far more aid in by road. Hundreds of aid trucks are lined up at the Gaza border awaiting permission to enter.
Cyprus, which backed the WCK initiative, aims to coordinate more aid to the besieged Palestinian enclave. It will host officials from a number of countries on 21 March for talks on the issue, government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis told journalists. “There will be an exchange of views on what material support states could offer. The extent of humanitarian assistance non-combatants have in Gaza requires the support of many countries.”
It seems as though the war strategy of starving the population of Gaza and denying them medical supplies may be averted. But there's still a lot of work to be done.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
Gaza food aid from Cyprus reaches starving people in north of enclave, says charity
A US-based charity has confirmed that a consignment of almost 200 tons of food aid has reached starving people in northern Gaza today, a week after being despatched by sea from Cyprus.
World Central Kitchen (WCK), working with the UAE and Spanish charity Open Arms, sent the food via the 200-mile (322-km) sea route from Larnaca to a makeshift jetty off Gaza. The consignment arrived on Friday. A convoy of eight trucks belonging to the World Food Programme (WFP) then ferried the aid — the equivalent of half a million meals — to its final destination today.
A UN-backed report said on Monday that famine was “imminent” in the northern Gaza Strip, where some 300,000 people are trapped by fighting. Across the whole Gaza Strip, the number of people facing “catastrophic hunger” has risen to 1.1 million, half the population.
A second vessel is now moored at Larnaca with 240 tons of food on board, waiting to travel pending weather conditions, noted WCK and Cypriot government officials. “WCK is ready to send tonnes of food weekly to Gaza with support from the international community,” said the charity.
Aid agencies say the food that can be delivered by sea to Gaza, though welcome, is completely inadequate for the scale of people’s needs and they have urged Israel to allow far more aid in by road. Hundreds of aid trucks are lined up at the Gaza border awaiting permission to enter.
Cyprus, which backed the WCK initiative, aims to coordinate more aid to the besieged Palestinian enclave. It will host officials from a number of countries on 21 March for talks on the issue, government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis told journalists. “There will be an exchange of views on what material support states could offer. The extent of humanitarian assistance non-combatants have in Gaza requires the support of many countries.”
It seems as though the war strategy of starving the population of Gaza and denying them medical supplies may be averted. But there's still a lot of work to be done.
You do realize if they give up their hostages this would all be averted!!!
Romans 10:9 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
So that's your excuse for starving millions of innocent women and children? You feel that a strategy of starving the civilians of Gaza to fight Hamas is okay? You see, while I'm all for Hamas being defeated and Israel accomplishing that mission, that doesn't excuse them starving and denying medical supplies to the citizens of Gaza. Those are two very different things. Some seem to think making innocent people victims of war on purpose by starving them and denying them medical supplies is perfectly acceptable behavior. It's not. When you become the very thing you claim makes you enemy so terrible, how does that make you any better than your enemy? Netanyahu is doing so much damage to the nation of Israel on the global stage that they're losing support from many nations they have depended on. What he is doing borders on criminal and maybe even goes further than that.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
So that's your excuse for starving millions of innocent women and children? You feel that a strategy of starving the civilians of Gaza to fight Hamas is okay? You see, while I'm all for Hamas being defeated and Israel accomplishing that mission, that doesn't excuse them starving and denying medical supplies to the citizens of Gaza. Those are two very different things. Some seem to think making innocent people victims of war on purpose by starving them and denying them medical supplies is perfectly acceptable behavior. It's not. When you become the very thing you claim makes you enemy so terrible, how does that make you any better than your enemy? Netanyahu is doing so much damage to the nation of Israel on the global stage that they're losing support from many nations they have depended on. What he is doing borders on criminal and maybe even goes further than that.
I don't see it. But my judgement is not based on an antisemitic UN either.
Romans 10:9 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
Gaza food aid from Cyprus reaches starving people in north of enclave, says charity
A US-based charity has confirmed that a consignment of almost 200 tons of food aid has reached starving people in northern Gaza today, a week after being despatched by sea from Cyprus.
World Central Kitchen (WCK), working with the UAE and Spanish charity Open Arms, sent the food via the 200-mile (322-km) sea route from Larnaca to a makeshift jetty off Gaza. The consignment arrived on Friday. A convoy of eight trucks belonging to the World Food Programme (WFP) then ferried the aid — the equivalent of half a million meals — to its final destination today.
A UN-backed report said on Monday that famine was “imminent” in the northern Gaza Strip, where some 300,000 people are trapped by fighting. Across the whole Gaza Strip, the number of people facing “catastrophic hunger” has risen to 1.1 million, half the population.
A second vessel is now moored at Larnaca with 240 tons of food on board, waiting to travel pending weather conditions, noted WCK and Cypriot government officials. “WCK is ready to send tonnes of food weekly to Gaza with support from the international community,” said the charity.
Aid agencies say the food that can be delivered by sea to Gaza, though welcome, is completely inadequate for the scale of people’s needs and they have urged Israel to allow far more aid in by road. Hundreds of aid trucks are lined up at the Gaza border awaiting permission to enter.
Cyprus, which backed the WCK initiative, aims to coordinate more aid to the besieged Palestinian enclave. It will host officials from a number of countries on 21 March for talks on the issue, government spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis told journalists. “There will be an exchange of views on what material support states could offer. The extent of humanitarian assistance non-combatants have in Gaza requires the support of many countries.”
It seems as though the war strategy of starving the population of Gaza and denying them medical supplies may be averted. But there's still a lot of work to be done.
You do realize if they give up their hostages this would all be averted!!!
Yes, holding innocents hostage so the "bad guys" will let go of innocent hostages makes all sorts of sense. Personally, I think it just makes "Israel" "bad guys." Palestinians use the same logic. In their eyes, they took hostages so that Israel would stop holding their country hostage.
Beating "evil" by behaving evil never seems to work out for some reason. It seems to just lead to more evil.
You mess with the "Bull," you get the horns. Fiercely Independent.
I don't see it. But my judgement is not based on an antisemitic UN either.
Nor is mine. My judgement is based on the fact Israel is starving and denying millions of innocent civilians including women, children and the elderly of medical supplies. Something my Chirstian beliefs will never make excuses for. They are not Hamas.
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I’ve volunteered with this organization on many occasions. They do great work, and save lives.
Lots of info on GAZA and what they are doing.
I must disagree with you. “They are not HAMAS” statement. Not all, but many of them are children and wives of HAMAS fighters. Palestinians make up the major part of HAMAS fighting force. That’s not an excuse to kill and starve everyone, it’s just a fact.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. – Jackie Robinson
….Genocide is what has been happening to Jews for a thousands years or more. Big difference.
Personally, I think it just makes "Israel" "bad guys." Palestinians use the same logic. In their eyes, they took hostages so that Israel would stop holding their country hostage.![[Linked Image from i.ibb.co]](https://i.ibb.co/fkjZc8B/Bull-Dawg-Sig-smaller.jpg)