Thursday 28th of November 2024

but no can openers in the delivery....

US drops aid into Gaza where UN says 550,000 close to famine

In short: the US says about 38,000 meals have been airdropped from three planes along the Gaza coast.
A senior US administration official says Israel has essentially endorsed a framework for a proposed ceasefire and hostage release deal.
What's next? Talks to reach a ceasefire agreement are set to resume in Egypt on Sunday local time.
The US has carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza, but some Palestinians are saying it is not nearly enough.

The development came as a senior US administration official said Israel had endorsed a framework for a proposed ceasefire and hostage release deal.

Three C-130 US military planes delivered more than 38,000 meals to the territory, where the UN says at least 576,000 people are at risk of famine conditions.

Palestinians posted videos on social media showing boxes of aid being dropped.

Jordanian forces also participated in the operation.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-03/us-drops-aid-into-gaza-where-un-fears-famine-is-near/103539252#

 

 

Joe Biden twice confused Gaza with Ukraine as he was announcing that the US would provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians.

The US president, 81, confirmed on Friday that humanitarian assistance would be airdropped into Gaza and said the US would “insist” Israel did more to facilitate help for those affected by famine and the effects of war, saying: “Children’s lives are on the line”.

 

Biden twice mistakenly referred to airdrops to help “Ukraine”, leaving White House officials to clarify he was in fact talking about Gaza.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/02/joe-biden-confuses-gaza-with-ukraine-in-airdrop-announcement#

 

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fawlty parachutes....

As horrifying and harrowing as the situation in Gaza is, sometimes the best thing is to just laugh out loud.

The Jews have reached unbelievable, cartoonish levels of evil, recently using aid deliveries as ambush points, opening fire on starving people waiting for food.

Now they are using food as bombs.

RT:

Five people, including two children, were killed by a malfunctioning airdrop in Gaza on Friday, the local health ministry has said. They were reportedly crushed by a pallet of food supplies when its parachute failed to properly deploy.

US, French, Dutch, Belgian, Jordanian and Egyptian transport planes dropped pallets of military rations on Gaza during the day, in an attempt to relieve the conditions the UN has described as impending famine. Israel has not allowed trucks with food and fuel into the Palestinian enclave for months.

The incident happened around 11:30 am local time in the Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, CBS News and Al Jazeera reported, quoting local officials and eyewitnesses. Eleven more people were injured.

An anonymous US official told CBS that an “initial review” suggested the pallet that caused the deaths was not dropped by an American plane, but said further investigation would be needed.

Other news outlets are reporting that it was an American plane.

But it’s all part of an American program, so it doesn’t really matter whose plane it was.

The State Department has not yet commented on the report of deaths, which has not been verified by the UN.

Videos circulating on social media showed one of the aid packages dropping far faster than others, with its parachute tangled up and not fully opened. 

Friday’s drop was the second this week, mainly consisting of dehydrated Meals-Ready-to-Eat (MRE) rations intended for the battlefield or disaster areas. The airdrops amount to less than 40,000 meals a day and are nowhere near enough for over two million people who live in Gaza, the UN has warned.

“Dropping aid in this way is flashy propaganda rather than a humanitarian service,” said the media office for the local government in Gaza, run by the militant group Hamas. “We previously warned it poses a threat to the lives of citizens in the Gaza Strip, and this is what happened today when the parcels fell on the citizens’ heads.”

Hamas urged the reopening of land crossings, condemning the airdrops as “useless and not the best way to bring aid in.”

It most contexts, it would be difficult to blame the US for this, or to claim it was purposeful. The US is not a competent country. We have trains filled with toxic chemicals crashing left and right, we have wheels falling off of passenger jets, so it’s not hard to believe they can’t figure out how parachutes work.

However, after what we’ve seen, it’s hard to come to any other conclusion than that they did this on purpose.

https://www.unz.com/aanglin/biden-uses-food-as-bombs-killing-five-palestinians-with-airdrop-with-botched-parachute/

 

 

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tone the noise down....

As Israeli troops continue to wage their war against the Gaza Strip and its denizens, Western mainstream media outlets have started taking note of the terrible toll Tel Aviv’s actions are taking on the Palestinian enclave’s population.

US mainstream media outlets such as The New York Times and CNN reported this week that a de facto blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces has resulted in mass starvation among the enclave’s civilian population.

US President Joe Biden has even said in his recent interview with MSNBC that he has a “red line” in the Gaza Strip, insisting that “you can't have another 30,000 Palestinians dead as a consequence of” trying to take down Hamas.

Such a change in rhetoric in a country that has so far been Israel’s staunchest ally likely has something to do with the upcoming US presidential election, argued Robinder Sachdev, a geopolitical and economic diplomacy analyst and founder president of The Imagindia Institute.

 

 

“I would say if there were no elections in this year of the president, let's say the presidential elections were next year, you would not have seen any change in President Biden's stance towards the Israel crisis,” Sachdev told Sputnik.

 

Ezzat Saad, a former Egyptian ambassador to Russia, offered a similar take on the subject as he argued that there has not been a substantial change in the mainstream media attitude “concerning the Palestinian perspective of the war.”

 

 

“These are cosmetics under some pressure from the American public opinion including the leftist wing of the Democratic Party and also the Arab and Muslim Americans,” Saad postulated.

 

He also predicted that “there will not be a U-Turn in the American position,” as the United States has so far been quietly supporting Israel with weapon shipments and shielding Tel Aviv from international condemnation at the UN Security Council.

“The aim here is to give the Israeli leadership more time to kill more Palestinians and to pretend an illusionary victory,” Saad remarked.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240310/sudden-white-house-and-us-media-sympathy-for-palestinians-likely-caused-by-looming-elections-1117245467.html

 

 

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gourmet food for gaza......

After years of accusing Russia of using food as a weapon in its conflict with Ukraine, State Department “culinary ambassador” José Andrés is working with the Israeli government to supplant UNRWA as the main supplier of aid to northern Gaza.

State Department-linked Spanish celebrity chef José Andrés has emerged as the US government’s preferred conduit for aid to enter Gaza, following the Biden administration’s decision to suspend funding to the enclave’s main supplier of food, aid and education, the UNRWA.

The operation appears designed to serve as a stopgap measure to provide minimal quantities of food to Gaza’s famine-stricken population until the US military finishes building a pier in the Mediterranean Sea, and a shadowy contractor run by former US Marines and CIA officials is able to implement an aid program called “Blue Beach Plan.”

Andrés’ organization, World Central Kitchen, has already finished constructing its own jetty, which was made from the rubble heaps in Gaza — a decision that virtually guaranteed the building materials contain the remains of humans killed by Israeli bombing.

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https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/27/us-state-depts-chef-gaza-aid-rubble/

 

 

 

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