Yeah I saw, 320 million dollars down the drain. What a fucking joke
US to suspend Gaza aid deliveries after pier suffers weather damage: Report
The United States military has suspended aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip by sea after bad weather damaged the temporary pier it had set up on the enclave’s coast, NBC News has reported, citing unnamed officials.
The US military is expected to make the announcement later on Tuesday, NBC said in its report, which cited a United Nations official, a US official and an Israeli official.
Aid groups have criticised the $320m floating pier as a costly and ineffective distraction from the fact that land deliveries are the most efficient way to help Gaza. The US has failed to pressure Israel into opening the land crossings, however.
Germany has no shame
Shelling of Rafah camp for displaced people ‘tragic’: Germany’s Scholz
The chancellor says the [self] investigation into the attack is “both right and necessary”. “We have repeatedly spoken out against a ground offensive. The civilian population cannot be adequately protected in this way,” Olaf Scholz posted on X.
In 2023, Germany approved arms exports to Israel worth 326.5 million euros ($354.5m), a tenfold increase compared to the previous year, providing 30 percent of the Israeli military’s weapons, according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Researchers also found that 99 percent of Israel’s arms come from the United States and Germany, with the latter being the second-biggest supplier.
Nor the US.
US expresses deep concern to Israel Rafah tent camp attack
US Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller said the United States will continue to emphasise to Israel its obligation to comply fully with international humanitarian law, minimise the impact of its operations on civilians and maximise the flow of humanitarian assistance.
The tent camp incident, which killed at least 45 people, has drawn widespread international outrage, including from some of Israel’s closest allies, over the military’s expanding offensive into Rafah.
“We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life in Rafah over the weekend,” Miller told reporters. The Israeli military “has promised that its investigation will be swift, comprehensive and transparent. We will be watching those results closely”, he added.
Yeah sure you'll be watching the results closely and collaborate on excuses and making it go away. How's that maximizing the flow of humanitarian assistance going with your 320 million dollar tax payer joke of a pier.
US vice president says Israel’s deadly strike on Rafah beyond ‘tragic’
US Vice President Kamala Harris says “the word ‘tragic’ doesn’t even begin to describe” an Israeli air strike on Sunday that triggered a fire in a tent camp in Rafah, killing 45 Palestinians.
The remarks came in response to a reporter’s question after subsequent Israeli tank shelling of a tent camp in an evacuation area west of Rafah that killed at least 21 people on Tuesday, according to Gaza health authorities.
This further tested US President Joe Biden’s promise to withhold weapons from Israel if the US ally made a major invasion of Rafah that put displaced Palestinian civilians at risk.
Harris, speaking at a ceremonial event in Washington, DC, did not respond to a follow-up question about whether attacks in Rafah crossed a “red line”.
How about use the words heinous war crime or genocide, and stop supplying more weapons to Israel. All US politicians are is PR mouth pieces, apologists, spewing dis information and repeating Israeli propaganda.
It's clear who is pulling the strings. It took the US less than 24 hours to get Israel to make a U-Turn on confiscating AP's equipment. That was the only red line the US apparently thought too far. (Imagine reporters actually having to go to Gaza instead of using AP's live general shot as background for spreading Israeli propaganda)
Saying this every single day clearly isn't working, how about kick the US out of the UN. At least they can't veto anymore then.
UN chief says ‘horror’ in Gaza must stop
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Israel’s deadly May 26 air strikes on Rafah and called for “the horror and suffering to stop immediately”.
“The Israeli authorities must allow, facilitate and enable the immediate, safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance to those in need and all crossing points must be open,” Guterres spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.
Gaza’s health ministry said 45 people – including 23 women, children and the elderly – were killed in the attack, while 249 others were wounded.
