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SvennoJ on 18 May 2024
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Israeli army claims aid trucks getting into Gaza through two land crossings

The Israeli military says it is “increasing” humanitarian aid to Gaza even as the UN and the international community decry the lacklustre efforts as intense fighting rages across the enclave.

More than 1,050 humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza through the new “Western Erez” and the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossings.

Meanwhile, 160,000 litres (26,417 gallons) of fuel and other goods came in through the US-built floating pier, it said.

The military also claimed that flour from 204 World Food Programme trucks and 120 Jordanian aid trucks was delivered inside Gaza.

Amid its ground invasion in eastern Rafah, the Israeli military has closed the Rafah land crossing, along with multiple others.



Are they just flat out lying or where does the aid go?


This doesn't track the Erez crossing nor the pier, but reports a big fat 0 from Kerem Shalom

Fatah critical of US aid pier while Israel occupies key land crossing

A senior Fatah official says the US announcement that the newly built pier is now functional, “in light of Israel’s control over Rafah on the Palestinian side, strengthens the occupation and isolates the coastal enclave completely”.

Abdel Fatah Doleh, a Fatah spokesman, said this move also “allows Israel to continue its attack on Rafah, and to completely control the enclave”.

Doleh said efforts should be made to reach a ceasefire, stop the war permanently and allow aid to go through all the land crossings, “which is something the US is capable of doing but instead, it is giving Netanyahu free rein to allow his army to carry out massacres against Palestinians”.



‘Accused of genocide’: Israel and Turkey spar again over Gaza war

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz released a video of the October 7 attacks showing the body of Shani Louk – believed killed while fleeing the Supernova music festival – being transported on the back of a truck to Gaza.

“These are your Hamas partners whom you call ‘freedom fighters’,” he said, noting Louk’s body was recovered from Gaza on Friday. “You should be silent and ashamed.”.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry presented a response to Katz and Israel – “accused of genocide” – by publishing photos of children killed in Gaza, mass graves found at hospitals and medical workers holding a news conference among bodies of Palestinians killed by Israel.

Israel says it will end its trade agreements with Turkey after Ankara halted Israeli imports and exports until a ceasefire is achieved in Gaza and aid is delivered to Palestinians.