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

[muriel_volestrangler]

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

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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?

[Johnny2X2X]

1. You can call it whatever you want

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]

2. "from a practical and a diplomatic standpoint"

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

[Bayard]

3. It really reminds me of the U.S.,

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]

4. It's going to be

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

[BuddhaGirl]

5. How generous of Israel

to keep Gaza at "barely" starving.

[AloeVera]

10. Barely starving for a few, fully starving for the rest.

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.

[cabotnn22]

6. Why doesn't Egypt open its border to Gaza

and allow food/supplies in?

[Eugene]

7. Egypt has tried sending aid across the border. Israel turned the trucks back.

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]

8. Thanks!

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

[madville]

9. Follow the money

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.