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SvennoJ on 12 July 2024
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Conservative? Try fascist, totalitarian, repressive.

Biden calls Israeli war cabinet one of the ‘most conservative’ in country’s history

Earlier, we reported that Joe Biden described Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government as “less than cooperative” in terms of allowing aid into Gaza, adding that Israel’s war on the Palestinian territory “should end now”.

Here are more comments made by the US president during a news conference at the NATO 75th anniversary summit in Washington:
  • “I know Israel well and I support Israel. But this war cabinet is one of the most conservative war cabinets in the history of Israel. And there’s no one answer on the two-state solution here.”
  • “What’s the day after in Gaza? The day after in Gaza has to be the end. The end of the day after has to be no occupation by Israel in the Gaza Strip, as well as the ability for us to access, get in and out, as rapidly as you can.”
  • “There’s a lot of things in retrospect I wish I had been able to convince the Israelis to do. But the bottom line is, we have a chance now. It’s time to end this war. It doesn’t mean walk away from going after [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar and Hamas.”
  • “There is a growing dissatisfaction in the West Bank from the Palestinians about Hamas. Hamas is not popular now.”

His last remark is incorrect. Hamas still gets 34% of the vote in the West Bank, much more than Fatah (the PA)

https://www.pcpsr.org/sites/default/files/Poll%2091%20English%20press%20release%2020%20March%202024.pdf


US-built aid pier scrapped as parts of Gaza starve

“Throughout the conception, construction and brief operation” of the floating pier off the Gaza coast, land routes into the Palestinian territory that could have supplied Gaza’s starving population with much-needed humanitarian aid were available, Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi reports.

“But the US didn’t use its leverage to force Israel to open them for the safe delivery of aid,” Rattansi said.

COGAT claims 300 trucks carrying aid allowed to enter Gaza on Thursday

The Israeli Defence Ministry agency that oversees the occupied Palestinian territory has claimed that 300 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Thursday.

The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said that 249 trucks went through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing, while 51 passed through the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing in the north of Gaza.

The UN and other international organisations continue to report Israeli restrictions on aid delivery to Gaza, while independent UN experts say famine has spread throughout the besieged enclave after more than nine months of war.

On Thursday, World Health Organization chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said that only five of the UN agency’s trucks carrying medical supplies have been allowed into Gaza in the last week.

UNWRA's tracking site is a few days behind, yet Cogat claimed 248 trucks via the Kerem Shalom Crossing and 13 trucks via the Erez Crossing for July 10.
https://govextra.gov.il/cogat/humanitarian-efforts/home/

UNWRA received 30 trucks on July 10 through Kerem Shalom
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/state-of-palestine-gaza-aid-truck-data?

What happened to the other 218 trucks...