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muriel_volestrangler

(105,562 posts)
Mon May 19, 2025, 08:30 AM May 2025

Israel allowing 'minimal' food into Gaza after pressure from allies, PM says

Source: BBC

Israel's prime minister has said his decision to allow a "minimal" amount of food into Gaza after 11 weeks of blockade followed pressure from allies in the US Senate.

"We must not reach a situation of famine, both from a practical and a diplomatic standpoint," Benjamin Netanyahu stressed in a video in response to criticism of the move in Israel.

He said food deliveries would continue only until Israel's military and American companies had set up hubs to distribute aid under US-backed plan that the UN has rejected.

Netanyahu also declared that Israeli forces would "take control of all areas" of Gaza as part of the expanded ground offensive against Hamas that the Israeli military began on Sunday.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3d4kz8p00eo



Privatizing aid for American "companies" (armed mercenary companies, that is) to profit. And would you trust the Israeli military and American mercenaries to distribute aid according to need rather than according to who obeys orders to move from one bombsite to another?
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Israel allowing 'minimal' food into Gaza after pressure from allies, PM says (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler May 2025 OP
You can call it whatever you want Johnny2X2X May 2025 #1
"from a practical and a diplomatic standpoint" Bok_Tukalo May 2025 #2
It really reminds me of the U.S., Bayard May 2025 #3
It's going to be drmeow May 2025 #4
How generous of Israel BuddhaGirl May 2025 #5
Barely starving for a few, fully starving for the rest. AloeVera May 2025 #10
Why doesn't Egypt open its border to Gaza cabotnn22 May 2025 #6
Egypt has tried sending aid across the border. Israel turned the trucks back. Eugene May 2025 #7
Thanks! cabotnn22 May 2025 #8
Follow the money madville May 2025 #9

Johnny2X2X

(23,685 posts)
1. You can call it whatever you want
Mon May 19, 2025, 08:43 AM
May 2025

But the plan going froward is clear, BiBi and Trump have clearly stated the new goals for Gaza, there can be no guessing anymore. The plan is for every single Gazan to be either ejected from Gaza or exterminated. It is being wiped from the map so Trump and BiB can bulldoze it and sell off the land to their rich buddies.

Bok_Tukalo

(4,521 posts)
2. "from a practical and a diplomatic standpoint"
Mon May 19, 2025, 08:54 AM
May 2025

Certainly not from a humanitarian standpoint since Israelis don’t appear to consider Palestinians human.

Bayard

(28,577 posts)
3. It really reminds me of the U.S.,
Mon May 19, 2025, 10:13 AM
May 2025

Exterminating Indigenous people and taking their land. They did not consider them as human either--just an obstacle to their plans and greed. Another case of, submit or we will starve you into submission.

drmeow

(5,929 posts)
4. It's going to be
Mon May 19, 2025, 10:50 AM
May 2025

weird/awkward when Netanyahu and Hitler run into each other in the depths of hell.

AloeVera

(3,997 posts)
10. Barely starving for a few, fully starving for the rest.
Mon May 19, 2025, 06:34 PM
May 2025

Further, Trump's private "mercenary humanitarians" plan - in cahoots with Netanyahu - would feed only 60% of the population. Because the rest don't need to eat. Or they can eat cake. Maybe they can eat under the benevolent eye of generous warlords in Libya.

I really hope these two people experience severe hunger and deprivation before they kick off this mortal coil. And that, sooner rather than later.

Eugene

(66,800 posts)
7. Egypt has tried sending aid across the border. Israel turned the trucks back.
Mon May 19, 2025, 02:08 PM
May 2025

Israel physically controls most of Gaza including nearly all ways in or out. It is a blockade.

https://www.euronews.com/2025/03/03/israel-criticised-after-it-bars-the-flow-of-all-goods-into-gaza

All this coincides with Israel trying to compel Egypt to accept large numbers of Gazans across that same border in what is feared to be ethnic cleansing.

cabotnn22

(152 posts)
8. Thanks!
Mon May 19, 2025, 04:19 PM
May 2025

I'm out of the loop (been ignoring news for the past few months...too depressing).

madville

(7,841 posts)
9. Follow the money
Mon May 19, 2025, 05:48 PM
May 2025

I’d like to see what American companies have landed these contracts. Like when Diane Feinstein’s husband (Blum) landed Iraq war contracts worth a couple of billion dollars after she voted for the war.

Usually interesting to see who is tied to these war contracts.

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