Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that his decision to resume limited aid to Gaza after a weekslong blockade came after pressure from allies who said they wouldn’t be able to grant Israel the support it needs to win the war so long as there were “images of hunger” coming out of the Palestinian territory.
Israel has faced condemnation from the United Nations, aid groups and some European allies for its blockade of goods into the war-ravaged territory, including food, fuel and medicine.
On Sunday it said it would allow a “basic” amount of aid into Gaza to prevent a “hunger crisis” from developing. Food experts have already warned that the blockade risked sparking famine in Gaza, a territory of roughly 2 million people.
The aid that would be let in would be “minimal,” Netanyahu said, without specifying precisely when it would resume, and would act as bridge toward the beginning of a new approach to aid delivery in Gaza, which will see a U.S.-backed organization distribute aid in organized hubs in Gaza that will be secured by the Israeli military.
Israeli authorities have not commented on when the aid would begin entering.
An Associated Press photographer saw at least three trucks loaded with humanitarian aid on the Israeli side of a crossing with Gaza but they drove off back into Israel shortly after.
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https://apnews.com/article/mideast-wars-israel-gaza-hamas-05-19-2025-da619d393510e0dde9650adbd39cbf0b
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*Israel blocks aid*
*Gaza’s humanitarian condition worsens*
*People and NGOs warns about it*
*Israel resumes aid to prevent a catastrophe*
*Israel blocks aid again* <= **The loop starts here**
*Gaza’s humanitarian condition worsens*
*People and NGOs warns about it*
*Pro-Israel folks dismiss it as fake news because nothing happened the last time they warned about it*
*Israel resumes aid to prevent a catastrophe* <= **Loop ends here**
Netanyahu intends to erase gaza. It was onvious for some time, and realistically no one can stop him from doing so when US backs him up.
Everything else just a petty theatrics meant to obscure the plan from those who are uniterested in the situation (majority of populations even in the west).
“We’re going to take control of all the Gaza Strip,” Netanyahu vowed Monday in a video released by his office announcing that Israel would begin delivering “minimal humanitarian aid: food and medicine only.”
Netanyahu claimed that international pressure, including from pro-Israel Republican senators and the White House, required the appearance of humanitarian intervention. “Our best friends in the world-senators I know as strong supporters of Israel-have warned that they cannot support us if images of mass starvation emerge,” he said. “They come to me and say, ‘We’ll give you all the help you need to win the war… but we can’t be receiving pictures of famine,” Netanyahu added. To continue the war of annihilation, he asserted, **”We need to do it in a way that they won’t stop us.”**
Netanyahu’s coalitional ally Bezalel Smotrich-an extreme right-wing government minister and longtime advocate of starving, mass killing, and depopulating Gaza-endorsed Netanyahu’s move. Smotrich said the aid scheme would allow **”our friends in the world to continue to provide us with
an international umbrella of protection against the Security Council and the Hague Tribunal**, and for us to continue to fight, God willing, until victory.”
In what he described as an emergency press conference to address criticism from his own base, Smotrich laid out the Netanyahu government’s genocidal agenda and explained why the appearance of allowing aid is necessary on a strategic level. “The [aid] that will enter Gaza in the coming days is the tiniest amount. A handful of bakeries that will hand out pita bread to people in public kitchens. People in Gaza will get a pita and a food plate, and that’s it. Exactly what we are seeing in the videos: people standing in line and waiting to have someone serve them, with some soup plate,” Smotrich said.
“Truth be told, until the last of the hostages returns, we should also not let water into the Gaza Strip. But the reality is that if we do that, the world will force us to halt the war immediately, and to lose. It would be winning the battle, and losing the war. I’m committed to winning the war,” Smotrich declared. “We are disassembling Gaza, and leaving it as piles of rubble, with total destruction [which has] no precedent globally. And the world isn’t stopping us. There are pressures. There are those who attack [us]; they are trying to [make us] stop; they are not succeeding. You know why they aren’t succeeding? Because we are navigating [the campaign] responsibly and wisely, and that’s how we’ll continue to do [it].”
Remember folks, this is symbolic only.
Reports are that they will ‘allow’ 30 trucks per day. A minimum of 500 are required daily.
Forced starvation is still the goal.
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