Maybe the Palestinians will get to govern themselves, or as close as they’ve had, but time will tell, if Hamas surrenders its hold on Gaza.
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It's was Netanyahu who backed and funded Hamas over PLO. PA over both is a good start.Maybe the Palestinians will get to govern themselves, or as close as they’ve had, but time will tell, if Hamas surrenders its hold on Gaza.
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You mean where it explains why Israel is currently stopping supplies while setting up a second borderline in Gaza parallel to the Egyptian border, etc…& when they (supply/aid/fuel) resume, it’ll be not via Hamas/UN/UNRWA, but via the IDF, with the idea being to intensify pressure on Hamas until they release all remaining Israeli hostages, disarm, and leave Gaza?
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So with control of dispensing & dispersal of aid supplies of fuel, food, medicine, etc…soon to be in IDF controlled areas of Gaza by the IDF itself, it’ll cut Hamas (& Friends) out of that market…while also simultaneously completely interrupting access to the tunnel system from Egypt under that border into Gaza (isolating that Rafah anthill from the rest of Hamas). I suppose other than that, it has little to nothing to do with the UN.This will return the aid/fuel/food/medicine to direct aid to the Palestinians in Gaza removing militants from initially confiscating them for resale to merchants for resale to the population as a whole.
Anyway, that’s what I picked up watching that eight & 1/2 minute video. Someone else watching the same video might pick up something else.
With that in mind above, Hamas wants Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza, & Israel wants Hamas’s full withdrawal from Gaza, so they have that in common.
Sounds like some Palestinians are also seeing the above (open protests against Hamas in Gaza, etc…), perhaps Hamas without an income might feel less welcome in Gaza or welcomed by the Palestinians…
Anti-Hamas protests on rise in Gaza as group's iron grip slips — BBC News
Gazan civilians are losing their fear of Hamas, openly criticising the group on the streets and online.
Food is coming in through a port in Israel on the north end of Gaza. Where did you get the silly idea it was coming from Egypt?You mean where it explains why Israel is currently stopping supplies while setting up a second borderline in Gaza parallel to the Egyptian border, etc…& when they (supply/aid/fuel) resume, it’ll be not via Hamas/UN/UNRWA, but via the IDF, with the idea being to intensify pressure on Hamas until they release all remaining Israeli hostages, disarm, and leave Gaza?
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View attachment 28936So with control of dispensing & dispersal of aid supplies of fuel, food, medicine, etc…soon to be in IDF controlled areas of Gaza by the IDF itself, it’ll cut Hamas (& Friends) out of that market…while also simultaneously completely interrupting access to the tunnel system from Egypt under that border into Gaza (isolating that Rafah anthill from the rest of Hamas). I suppose other than that, it has little to nothing to do with the UN.
This will return the aid/fuel/food/medicine to direct aid to the Palestinians in Gaza removing militants from initially confiscating them for resale to merchants for resale to the population as a whole.
View attachment 28937Anyway, that’s what I picked up watching that eight & 1/2 minute video. Someone else watching the same video might pick up something else.
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With that in mind above, Hamas wants Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza, & Israel wants Hamas’s full withdrawal from Gaza, so they have that in common.
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Sounds like some Palestinians are also seeing the above (open protests against Hamas in Gaza, etc…), perhaps Hamas without an income might feel less welcome in Gaza or welcomed by the Palestinians…
Anti-Hamas protests on rise in Gaza as group's iron grip slips — BBC News
Gazan civilians are losing their fear of Hamas, openly criticising the group on the streets and online.apple.news
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.
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.
Gaza aid crisis deepens as border closure stretches into 50th day
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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Palestinians strive to access water in the Jordan Valley | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory
“We used to buy tankered water at an extremely high price, but now it’s hard to even find anyone to bring us water out of fear that soldiers could confiscate the truck,” according to Salem, a 45-year-old father of five.
Listed as terrorists by Canada? But Holocaustages....
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Canada sanctions Israeli extremists, settler groups over violence against Palestinians
List of sanctioned individuals includes far-right leaders Bentzi Gopstein and Daniella Weiss; move latest made by Israeli allies to confront settler violence
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Anybody who wages war against innocents for political purposes is a terrorist.
Unless they have cool planes n' stuff.
Remember. . . a 500-pound bomb delivered by a Toyota is terrorism. A 500-pound bomb delivered by a Boeing is statecraft.
Unless they have cool planes n' stuff.
Remember. . . a 500-pound bomb delivered by a Toyota is terrorism. A 500-pound bomb delivered by a Boeing is statecraft.
ICJ: The International Court of Justice at The Hague began five days of hearings to examine Israel's obligations to "ensure and facilitate" humanitarian assistance "essential to the survival of the Palestinian civilian population" in the occupied territories, as well as the country's relationship with UN aid bodies and third-party countries operating in the West Bank and Gaza.
The hearings, initiated at the request of the UN, will lead to the Court publishing an advisory opinion, following a ban on UNRWA activity in Israel and restrictions on cooperation between Israeli authorities and the UN aid agency. Dozens of countries are expected to present arguments accusing Israel of breaking international law by blocking aid into Gaza.
At the hearing, Palestinian Ambassador to the Netherlands Ammar Hijazi said, "Israel intends the destruction of our people – it wants the erasure of the Palestinian people."
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar called the hearings part of a "systematic persecution and delegitimization" of Israel, and said the UN is "preventing Israel from obtaining the arms it needs to defend itself."
The hearings, initiated at the request of the UN, will lead to the Court publishing an advisory opinion, following a ban on UNRWA activity in Israel and restrictions on cooperation between Israeli authorities and the UN aid agency. Dozens of countries are expected to present arguments accusing Israel of breaking international law by blocking aid into Gaza.
At the hearing, Palestinian Ambassador to the Netherlands Ammar Hijazi said, "Israel intends the destruction of our people – it wants the erasure of the Palestinian people."
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar called the hearings part of a "systematic persecution and delegitimization" of Israel, and said the UN is "preventing Israel from obtaining the arms it needs to defend itself."