It comes, while you don’t deliver Israel Heedless of humanitarian appeals, nor of the demands of the American administration for its commitment to ensuring sufficient food for the people of Gaza.
Again, the US Secretary of State demanded Anthony BlinkenIsrael allows more entry Aid to GazaAnd well distributed within the sector.
The Axios news website quoted an American official as saying that the Biden administration is escalating its pressure on the Israeli government to comply with a set of American demands regarding… The humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The source confirmed that if the Israelis do not implement American demands by the thirteenth of next November, the United States may suspend its military aid to Israel.
Washington had sent a letter on October 13th to the government Netanyahuincludes a warning that Israel must take steps within 30 days to improve the humanitarian conditions in Gaza Or face the possibility of weapons supplies being affected.
Regarding the extent of Israel’s commitment to American demands, former Israeli minister and lecturer at the Hebrew University, Shimon Shatari, says, “Israel has begun to increase trucks of food, medicine, tents, and humanitarian aid, but according to the American position, the improvement is not sufficient, with the hope that the number of trucks will increase to confront the humanitarian crisis.”
He continued in his speech to Sky News Arabia, “But, even if the trucks enter the Strip, there are big problems with distribution. Because agitation They seize trucks and sell aid, medicines, etc. to the residents.”
For his part, writer and political researcher Jihad Harb says, “Israel is starving Palestinian citizens within the framework of… Genocide For the Palestinian people, which is War crimeWhat Israel did during the past year was to pursue the Palestinian police that protect the trucks. And now Israel is destroying the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA), as happened today in Ain Shams campIn addition to multiple prosecutions in the sector.”
Regarding the seriousness of the American administration in its demands on Israel and its threat of sanctions, Harb said in an interview with Sky News Arabia, “I believe that the new American administration after November 11 will be free from the restrictions of the elections whether it wins.” Donald Trump or Kamala Harris. Therefore, we may see, with more pressure from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that there are some issues for which Israel can be punished.”
He added, “There are two types of sanctions that Washington can impose on Israel, such as banning some types of military equipment from Israel, but this is not enough, or by lifting Israel’s immunity before international institutions, and this is what the former American president did.” Barack Obama In 2016, after Israel repeatedly rejected American recommendations.
He added, “I think that Israel will proceed in the same way by starving the Palestinians, because it believes that this is one of its tools to subjugate the Palestinians and kill the Palestinians.”
And he says World Food Programme Who is raising the warning at the present time, says that he has about 94 thousand tons of ready-made food, enough to feed a million people for 4 months, but he cannot bring it into the country. Gaza.
The Food Program adds that it was only able to enter 5,000 tons during the past month, and this in itself is not enough to eliminate the phenomenon of hunger, and it represents only 20 percent of the required aid.
In parallel, 100,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza left their homes due to… Israeli military operationsThey are in dire need of food and medical aid, according to the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa).
In addition to these new numbers, the Food Program said, in early October, that more than 90 percent of Gaza’s population will face the risk of food insecurity by this November.
These current data on how to address the humanitarian crisis were also preceded by a report issued by the United Nations in which it said that about 96% of Residents of Gaza They face high levels of Food insecurity Acute, due to lack of aid.
