Well no ceasefire, Biden's deception on full display
Biden says Hamas ‘has to move’ on Gaza ceasefire
US President Joe Biden says he has discussed a Gaza ceasefire during the Group of Seven summit and that he has not lost hope.
Asked if he was confident, Biden said, “No. Hamas has to move.”
Previously, Hamas said it has shown “full positivity” in the attempts to reach a ceasefire agreement with Israel. However, US Secretary of State Blinken has said some changes to the US-sponsored deal proposed by the Gaza-based group are not workable.
Hamas isn't going to agree to a hostage/prisoner swap without a permanent ceasefire. If Biden and Israel can't guarantee the phases are linked, Hamas won't play ball. The ICC needs to request an arrest warrant for Biden as well.
Biden tried to trick Hamas into a hostage/prisoner exchange while leaving the door open for Israel to continue/resume slaughtering and destroying the rest of Gaza. Hence all Blinken's pressure on Hamas to accept the 'deal'. Hamas has been dealing with Israel since their creation in the late 80s. Asking them to trust US/Israel is not going to work.
Some noise from Israel
Israeli minister accuses Gantz of wanting to end Gaza war
Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has accused former war cabinet member Benny Gantz’s of being in favor of ending the war in Gaza that has now killed more than 15,000 children.
“Gantz’s statements in favor of ending the war are a shameful surrender to [Hamas leader] Sinwar and moral and national bankruptcy,” he posted on X.
“In front of the tired generals, stand the brave warriors who continue to fight bravely and will bring victory to the people of Israel and the return of all the abductees,” he added.
Gantz resigned from the war cabinet and from the ruling coalition last week, saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “prevents us from progressing to real victory”. In mid-May, Gantz submitted a six-point plan for the administration of Gaza beyond the fighting. At the time, he said that if this was not agreed to, he would quit the cabinet.
Israel’s UN ambassador again rails against army’s addition to UN child harm list
“The secretary-general’s decision to include the [most] moral army in the world along with terrorist organisations and human rights violators is a despicable and despicable decision by a Secretary-General who hates Israel”, Israeli media quoted Gilad Erdan as saying of UN chief Antonio Guterres.
Last week, Erdan took to X to say he received official notification of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s decision to add the Israeli army to a blacklist of those who harm children in conflict, which is included in its annual report on the subject, officially released today.
Erdan also leaked part of the call he received from the secretary-general’s office, a move Guterres’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said “is shocking and unacceptable – and frankly something I’ve never seen in my 24 years serving this organisation”.
Today, Erdan also called on Guterres to resign.
UN: 155 percent increase in violations against children in Israel and Palestine
Speaking to reporters, Virginia Gamba, special representative of the secretary-general of the United Nations for children and armed conflict, detailed some of the particulars of the UN’s annual report on the subject.
We reported last week that the UN is adding Israel to its so-called “blacklist” of countries that have committed abuses against children in armed conflict, which is included in this annual report.
Thousands of Palestinian children have been killed in the Israeli military’s continued assault on the Gaza Strip.
