Fraught delivery of Gaza aid ‘shows how hard it is to do a good deed in the context of this war’

Fraught delivery of Gaza aid ‘shows how hard it is to do a good deed in the context of this war’

Well it’s almost enacted because the medicines are on the ground it’s I think it’s a sign of how hard it is to do a good deed in the context of this War uh because France and Qatar wanted to solve a problem which has bothered Israel for

A very long time which is no medicines get to hostages so they proposed a deal under which medicines would get to hostages and to gazans and it would be special planes delivered from catar land in Egypt go directly in uh and that was agreed in fact Israel’s prime ministers

Office boasted about it earlier in the day look what we’ve managed to engineer uh via VIA cutter and then um Musa Abu marzuk the one of the Hamas leaders outside the Gaza Strip tweeted uh boasting about how how for every box of medicine going to the hostages a

Thousand boxers would go to gazin and that he had organized that they would not come from European sources these would only be medicines from Qatar certainly not European or Israeli uh and and that he had organized that there would be no inspection no Israeli inspection of these of these medicines

And you know then there was it turned into a political story in Israel where Israel’s prime minister then says oh oh I didn’t know about that bit that was someone else’s responsibility and now those medicines will be first of all inspected U by uh Israeli troops to make

Sure they contain only medicines and then they’ll go in but it just shows you what a fraud process this is and how um on a political level Israel’s prime minister is always willing to take credit and no blame or responsibility but one of the relatives of the hostages

Said how will we know really in the end if any of these medicines will get to the hostages themselves there’s no there’s no mechanism for that either they did talk about the international Committee of the Red Cross though have it playing a role some role but you know

The international Committee of the Red Cross has stressed all along that it can’t enforce a role it can’t say I’m just going to go and see the hostages uh if I want to no in no Red Cross inspector can do that they’ve been very clear about that all along because

Israeli the relatives of hostages have been quite aggressive with them and said why don’t you just you go you can go in there you go and they say that’s not our role so if Hamas doesn’t want them to see a hostage or doesn’t want a hostage

To tell the Red Cross that they have received the medicine then they won’t be telling the Red Cross that meanwhile there’s more tension uh this Wednesday in the West Bank that’s right we have reports that now 10 Palestinians have died uh 26 were arrested and that was in two sets of

Military operations if you like um overnight and later in the day one in tarum one um in balata refugee camp uh near nabas I think the important thing about this frona is that one of those uh one of those attacks was carried out by

An EST in July last year was one of the first times I remember reporting it for you one of the first times during a Janine operation that Israel had used air strikes in the West Bank since the second in 20 years earlier now we don’t

Even comment on it it’s a sign of how much the West Bank situation has escalated how many Palestinians have died there there are clashes daily uh and it really has ratcheted up there and and that’s just one sign of it

A shipment of medicine for dozens of hostages held by Hamas was en route to Gaza on Wednesday after France and Qatar mediated the first agreement between Israel and the militant group since a weeklong cease-fire in November. FRANCE 24’s Jerusalem correspondent Irris Makler has the details.

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