Maybe that’s your twist, not mine. I thought your point was food wasn’t entering Gaza at all, & mine was that it’s part of a bigger picture.
Anyway, Egypt/Gaza border. Apparently there’s these tunnels under it, that we’ve been talking about for years here now. Part of that bigger picture is removing those tunnels from the equation of resupplying Hamas.
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Many of these tunnels have been discovered, and there’s probably many that haven’t been. The IDF is taking a couple of steps northwards in Gaza & setting up a second line (call it a corridor), beyond where they think these tunnels reach at this point. That’s ’part’ of the current strategy.
Then, food/fuel/medicine/etc…when it resumes, it’s going to be to areas controlled by the IDF, & it will be distributed by the….IDF….removing Hamas from directly skimming off the aid before it reaches the general population, or at least that’s what I understood after watching that eight & 1/2 minute video in #4922.
The Port of Ashod is where aid enters Israel and then goes through the Erez crossing into Gaza. IDF has no control over the port of Ashod because of tunnels?
Gaza aid crisis deepens as border closure stretches into 50th day
22 April 2025 Peace and Security
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with more than two million people – mostly women and children – trapped, starving and desperate, as no aid has been allowed in for the past 50 days.
The UN relief coordination office, OCHA, said on Tuesday that this marks the longest period without aid or commercial supplies entering the Strip since the conflict began in October 2023.
“Right now, it is probably the worst humanitarian situation ever seen throughout the war in Gaza,” OCHA spokesperson Jens Laerke told journalists at a briefing in Geneva.
Over 2.1 million Gazans are facing acute shortages of food, medicine, fuel, and clean water.
However, humanitarian supplies are stockpiled just across the border, including nearly 3,000 trucks of life-saving aid prepared by the Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA), which Israeli authorities are refusing to allow in.
Deliberate, man-made suffering
“Hunger is spreading and deepening – deliberate and man-made,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement.
“Gaza has become a land of desperation…humanitarian aid is being used as a bargaining chip and a weapon of war.”
The agency warned supplies inside Gaza are nearly all gone, with food stocks running dangerously low and only 250 food parcels left.
Flour has run out. Bakeries are shutting down, hospitals are collapsing without fuel or medicine, and essential items have soared in price.
“Two million people – a majority of women and children – are undergoing collective punishment,” Mr. Lazzarini said.
“The siege must be lifted, supplies must flow in, the hostages must be released, the ceasefire must resume.”
Aid effort continues
Despite these conditions, UNRWA continues to operate on the ground, providing water, collecting solid waste, and running vital health services.
Eight health centres and 39 medical points are still providing around 15,000 consultations daily. A blood donation drive to support local hospitals in urgent need of transfusions is also underway.
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with more than two million people – mostly women and children – trapped, starving and desperate, as no aid has been allowed in for the past 50 days.
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