A promised surge in aid into Gaza that Benjamin Netanyahu promised Joe Biden a week ago has so far failed to materialise, aid workers say, as the US aid chief confirmed that famine is beginning to take hold in parts of the besieged coastal strip.
One of Netanyahu’s pledges to Biden, to open the Ashdod port north of Gaza as a portal to sea-borne humanitarian aid, has led to no apparent action, according to the Israel N12 channel. N12 reported that none of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (Cogat) nor the Ashdod Port authorities have so far received instructions about opening the facility to shipments bound for Gaza.
Israeli officials had been promising their US counterparts for weeks that a crossing point would be opened into northern Gaza where the starvation is the most severe. It would either be at Erez, which was the main border point before the current war, or at a new site, they informed Washington. No decision was made, however, until Wednesday, six days after the Biden-Netanyahu call, when the defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said construction had begun on a new crossing. It is not clear how long that construction work will take.
I hate that I feel like school and church lied to me about goodness. Looking back it’s like they tried to trick me into thinking there was good in this world. But it seems now any good comes with a darkness or simply is darkness disguised as good.
Sorry if that’s off topic.
Evil just operates more openly these days because it’s assumed that money=impunity.
In late stage capitalism money does in fact equal impunity … as long as you don’t steal from other wealthy people.
Without evil there can’t be good. At least the majority of people don’t approve of this. Sadly they are not the ones in power.
I hear you and I stand with you. And I don’t believe you’re off topic, at all.