30 days to increase aid to northern Gaza or there will be consequences. Within 2 days after the announcement more aid started flowing into Gaza. The fact Israel is stating the aid agencies aren't doing their job because they are afraid to carry out distributions is NOT AN EXCUSE. The Israeli military should not be carrying out airstrikes at the same time aid workers are providing food and comfort.
The IDF should be on the ground with the aid agencies protecting them while they distribute food, water, and medicine. This is outrageous. COGAT criticizes the aid agencies while the IDF continues to bomb northern Gaza. Who is running this war over there anyway?
By Emma Platoff and Hilary Burns
Four years ago, (click here) Violet Barron was a proud Democrat, campaigning for President Biden at phone banks and with text blasts, and even working the polls on Election Day. This fall, the student activist and leading organizer of Harvard’s pro-Palestinian encampment plans to vote for a third-party candidate for president, convinced that the Democrats she once revered are enabling human rights abuses in the Middle East.
Joe Fahn, another Harvard student who once aligned with the Democratic Party, is unsure who he will support. Fahn said he is concerned that top Democrats, including Harris, have failed to condemn pro-Palestinian demonstrations, which troubles him because he feels they sometimes veer into antisemitism.
“What I’m looking for. . . is to feel like they’re understanding what Jewish students are going through,” Fahn said. He’s not convinced Harris does....
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, (click here) left, meets with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Tel Aviv in August.
A day after the United States (click here) said it had told Israel that a failure to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza could prompt a cutoff of military supplies, one of the starkest U.S. warnings since the war began, there was no official response from the Israeli government.
COGAT, the Israeli government agency that oversees policy in Gaza and the West Bank, insists that it is not limiting aid to Gaza and has blamed humanitarian agencies for failing to distribute the supplies it admits into the enclave after screening. On Wednesday, it said that it had inspected and permitted 50 aid trucks to enter northern Gaza from Jordan — carrying food, water, medical and other supplies — “in accordance with international law.”
That is a small fraction of what aid agencies say is needed to offset a severe hunger crisis in Gaza, especially in the north, where Israel “has tightened a siege” this month, the United Nations has said, as it steps up military operations against Hamas.
“People have run out of ways to cope, food systems have collapsed and the risk of famine is real,” the U.N. World Food Program said this week, referring to northern Gaza....
COGAT, the Israeli government agency that oversees policy in Gaza and the West Bank, insists that it is not limiting aid to Gaza and has blamed humanitarian agencies for failing to distribute the supplies it admits into the enclave after screening. On Wednesday, it said that it had inspected and permitted 50 aid trucks to enter northern Gaza from Jordan — carrying food, water, medical and other supplies — “in accordance with international law.”
That is a small fraction of what aid agencies say is needed to offset a severe hunger crisis in Gaza, especially in the north, where Israel “has tightened a siege” this month, the United Nations has said, as it steps up military operations against Hamas.
“People have run out of ways to cope, food systems have collapsed and the risk of famine is real,” the U.N. World Food Program said this week, referring to northern Gaza....
