Netanyahu justifies his determination to permit a “basic” entry of meals in Gaza for the concern of dropping the assist of the US | International | EUROtoday

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, stated Monday that Israel will seize “all gaza” and that for anybody to cease his military, “avoiding a famine situation.” These statements in a video broadcast on its Telegram channel make it clear that their Sunday determination to permit the entry of a “basic food” quantity within the strip is because of worldwide strain, particularly its essential ally, United States. Its president, Donald Trump, stated final Thursday that his nation was going to “take care of Gaza” and that “many people were starving.”

“We are immersed in intense and massive fighting in the Gaza Strip and making progress,” says Netanyahu, referring to the brand new navy invasion baptized as Operation Carros de Gideon, which the Israeli military started this Saturday.

Then he provides: “We are going to take control [de todo el territorio palestino invadido]”

Some senators [de EE UU] I know that they support Israel, they have come to tell me: ‘We will give you all the help you need to win the war, but we cannot be receiving photos of famine [en Gaza]”Says the prime minister in the video.” To complete our victory, to defeat Hamas and free the hostages, we cannot reach the hungry point, “he says.” They would not support us, “he reiterates

The statement with which the Netanyahu office announced its decision to minimally relieve the blockade does not need when the border will open for it, nor its exact amount; Nor does it mention other basic supplies, such as drinking water, medicines and fuel, which are also needed more than urgently in the Palestinian enclave.

Until the dissemination of that statement, the Israeli government kept denying that in Gaza there would be hunger. The Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, said, for example, on Saturday that the entry of humanitarian aid into the strip was “totally unnecessary.”

In his statement this Sunday night, Netanyahu justifies that change of criteria – which has already raised blisters among its ultra -right -wing partners of government, according to the Israeli press – for “the operational need to expand the military operation to defeat Hamas”, which has communicated its military, in accordance with the assertion.

The Israeli prime minister assured that the choice to distribute a minimal of meals to maintain alive the inhabitants of the Strip facilitates a navy operation whose “preparations”-they have been outlined by a navy statement-have consisted of recruiting the bombings since Tuesday and killing about 500 individuals between that day and Saturday. To them we should add the 140 that died this Sunday below the bombs and one other 17, which have perished within the early hours of this Monday, in accordance with Palestinian sources cited by EFE.

The navy operation to which the Israeli prime minister alludes is baptized with the title of biblical references Gideon automobiles. That land invasion broke out over the weekend with the intention to take management of latest areas of the territory of the strip.

“An such crisis [una hambruna] It would endanger the continuation of Operation Carros de Gideon to defeat Hamas, ”said the statement of the Netanyahu office. The note then pointed out that Israel will prevent the Islamist movement“ to take control of the distribution of humanitarian aid, to ensure that it does not reach the terrorists ”.

The Israeli government has justified the total blockade of the entry of humanitarian aid in Gaza on the grounds that Hamás were monopolized and used for their own benefit. After decreeing the total veto to the entry of food, medicines, fuel and other basic supplies on March 2, Netanyahu said that “free meals” for Hamas had ended. However, the Israeli executive has not offered evidence of that supposed deviation of aid, and the United Nations and the humanitarian organizations that work in Gaza have not corroborated it either.

With the total closure of the borders on March 2, the already catastrophic situation of the 2.1 million Palestinians of Gaza worse, if possible, even more. Especially since, two weeks later, Israel unilaterally broke the high fire with Hamas that had given a brief respite since mid -January to the Gazatis. The bombs, the killings and hunger returned. And with them, the images of young children reduced to eyes, skin and bones or those of huge queues of famous and desperate people in front of community kitchens that, one after another, have been closing for the most part.

On the 12th, the Nutrition Reference Index used by the UN warned that, if Israel did not allow the entry of food in Gaza before September, all the Palestinians of the enclave could suffer by then “acute food insecurity”, that is, when it lacks nutritious food and in sufficient quantity to the point of passing one or several days without eating. Of those two million long people, half a million are one step closer to the famine. Since March 2, at least 57 children have died from malnutrition in Gaza, according to the World Health Organization. In the 19 months that the war lasts, at least 53,300 Palestinians have died in Israeli attacks in the strip.

That decimated, exhausted and hungry population now faces that operation cars of Gideon, which has already translated into another of the recurrent nightmares of the population of Gaza: the eviction orders. Without food and without water, at least 300,000 people, according to the authorities of the enclave, have been forced by Israel, for the umpteenth time, to evict tents, their houses already in ruins and schools of displaced in the north of the territory to go to the southern area.

Neither water nor medicines

The decision to allow this “fundamental” food entry was taken during a meeting of the Israeli Security Cabinet this Sunday in which Netanyahu imposed his position against the rejection of the Minister of National Security, the outraged right Itamar Ben Gvir, who claimed in vain that he submitted to vote, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The video released on Monday in which the prime minister implies implicitly to international pressure and ensures that his country will seize the entire territory of Gaza partly points to the need to placate his ultra partners, on whom the continuity of his government depends.

A senior Israeli official cited under anonymity by Haaretz The decision of Netanyahu has described as a “one week” measure until “the humanitarian assist distribution facilities are underway.”

These distribution centers are those that provide a controversial Israeli-American plan to militarize the distribution of food and other basic supplies that will allegedly begin to be applied in early June.

The project, designed in parallel and at the service of Operation Carros de Gideon, plans to force almost all Gazati to a point south of the southern town of Jan Yunis. Also that Israeli soldiers and mercenaries of US companies control who will distribute that help that will distribute an opaque organization created for that purpose: the Humanitarian Foundation of Gaza. The aid will also be insufficient. Only 60 trucks will enter, 10% of those who penetrated the strip during the truce, which were already insufficient. Now they will be even more.

UN and NGO businesses have bluntly rejected this supposed humanitarian plan designed on the service of a navy operation, which violates all of the rules of humanitarian motion. Meanwhile, on the Egyptian aspect of Rafah’s border in Gaza, and within the international locations of the area, the United Nations and NGOs have ready greater than 171,000 tons of meals, sufficient to feed the Gazatis for 3 or 4 months, in accordance with the UN Humanitarian Coordination. But they can not enter, by order of Israel.