Why only a trickle of aid is getting into Gaza
Lengthy inspections, rejected humanitarian aid and Israeli bombs raining down. Those are some of the hurdles to relief reaching the 2.2 million Palestinians in war-torn Gaza. The United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, Martin Griffiths, has described the process as “in all practical terms, impossible.”
Gaza was placed under a complete Israeli siege on October 9, when Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said he would halt the supply of electricity, food, water and fuel to the enclave after Hamas attacked his country, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages. Israel has since begun allowing some aid to enter. Getting any form of relief into Gaza is a long and arduous process, aid workers and the UN say.
An average of 95 aid trucks per day entered Gaza between October 10 and February 1, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, down from 500 commercial and aid trucks a day before the war, when Palestinians weren’t facing mass displacement and starvation. Some 2 million Gazans are dependent on UN aid now. Relief operations are expected to be further hampered after the United States and other top donors suspend funding for UNRWA, the main agency responsible for aid distribution in Gaza. The donors pulled their funding over allegations by Israel that some of its staff were involved in the Hamas attacks.
Yet Israel continues to try to convince the world they have no restrictions on aid and it's the UN that's stalling
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/israel-blames-un-for-slow-aid-as-guterres-warns-of-catastrophe-1.2008528
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel-is-holding-up-food-for-1-1-million-palestinians-in-gaza-the-main-un-aid-agency-there-says-1.6762807
Telling Israel not to enter Rafah is like telling us to lose the war, Prime Minister Netanyahu says
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that the Israeli military would soon launch an operation into Rafah and pledged to provide safe passage to civilians, but offered few details. "Victory is within reach. We're going to do it. We're going to get the remaining Hamas terrorist battalions in Rafah, which is the last bastion, but we're going to do it," Netanyahu told ABC News' Jonathan Karl in an interview releasing Sunday.
"We're going to do it while providing safe passage for the civilian population so they can leave," he said. When asked where Palestinians are expected to go, Netanyahu said "we're working out a detailed plan." "Those who say that under no circumstances should we enter Rafah are basically saying: ‘lose the war, keep Hamas there’," Netanyahu added.
There is no winning this war, only making it worse. You cannot wipe out the desire for freedom, support for Hamas has only strengthened and will have no problems to recruit new people or restart under a different name. People will continue to resist oppression and apartheid, resistance will continue. All you are doing is create more hatred.
And Rafah won't be the end. Settler violence and ethnic cleansing will continue in the West bank and East Jerusalem. Netanyahu has already stated he wants to create a buffer zone in Lebanon, take over the Philadelphia corridor to cut Gaza off from Egypt and keep a military presence in Gaza while some right wing politicians want settlements in Gaza.
There's one state that continues to be successful with this kind of oppression and apartheid regime, that's North Korea (discriminatory songbun system). And Israel is already using many tactics Kim Jung Un uses like collective punishment, starvation, killing and illegally detaining whole families of people it deems enemies of the state. Both use religion and propaganda to control the population, backed up by lethal force.
